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Rendered the cockpit crew either trying to make an emergency descent of some sort or unable to control their aircraft any longer. it looks like a pressurization or smoke in the cabin issue. if thats the case the pilots would have put on an oxygen mask and smoke goggles and would have made an emergency descent to an lower altitude where the air is more breathable, but it looks they stayed on their flight plan track. they were still under directional control of the airplane. if they were not, the ...

Deal? lets move on to this. we have new details in the crash of that germanwings flight in the french alps. investigators say the planes black box show thats the co-pilot repeatedly ded dedly sped up the aircraft to use the autopilot to descend into those mountains. meantime recovery work continues at the crash site. crews had to be lowered to some of the wreckage by chopper. kitty logan is live in logan. kitty, what more have investigators learned from the second black box? >> well, that seco...

Without any difficulty. whether thats a factor, we simply dont know. theyll be looking to speak to eyewitness to hope they will provide some clues as to what happened in southern france today. >> alistair jameson, thank you. joining me now is former ntsb investigator greg fife and ceo of safety operating systems john cox. thank you, gentlemen, for joining us. greg, let me start with you. what do we know now about what brought this plane dont? >> right now, we dont have a lot of valid information...

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Effort after an request from the indonesia government. u.s. defense officials said today the u.s.s. samson a destroyer currently in the south china sea will be headed to the search zone. the vast majority and six of the seven crew members are from indonesia. according to the state department, no americans were on board. pilots from the aircraft seating up to 180 passengers had requested it deviate from their flight path less than an hour into the two-hour flight and rise to a higher altitude. ...

The flight path and lost contact with them three minutes or so after that request for deviation for the left of their flight plane and to 38,000 feet. >> how will the weather affect the rescue mission if it was a bad night when the plane went down. how will it affect the mission now? >> the weather not only provides the obvious obstacles in terms of wind and rain it also affects the sea state, and in this circumstance the java sea in this particular area is only 100 to 150 feet deep and the wind...

>> were living on the corner where satire and reality intersect. im chuck todd and joining me with luke russert, eugene robinson, amy walter and ken blackwell. welcome to sunday its "meet the press." good morning. we start with breaking news. a search is under way after an airasia flight carrying 162 people from indonesia to singapore lost contact with air traffic controllers. its reported that the pilot had requested a deviation from the planned flight path because of bad weather. president...

Imagery. this is the search area, and all around this area, and the flight path here we had thunderstorms, in some cases 50,000-foot high thunderstorms, which would be impossible to climb over top of. so right now within the last six hours, skies have cleared certainly, burt this is monsoon season. this is typically when they see the worst of the rain, the worst of the thunderstorms and wind. so today or tomorrow, since they suspended the search -- tomorrow they have a brief window and then the ...

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