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Crew members were on board that plane when it went down. the flight took off just after 10:00 a.m. local time. less than an hour into the flight the cockpit issued a distress call. according to an online flight tracker the plane descended 14,000 feet in 6 minutes. the french president francois hollande says no survivors are expected. were following developments. lets begin with cnn senior international correspondent jim bittermann. jim, bring us up to date. >> reporter: carol, one of the things ...

If theres any chance of any survivors, thats exactly the kind of people you want in there, people used to rescuing skiers. >> we have more details about the descent and how quickly it happened. this is from an online flight tracker that tracks the altitude of flights at 5:29 the flight was at 38,000 feet. six minutes late her at 5:35 a.m. it was at 24,000 feet. a drop of 14,000 feet in six minutes what does that tell you? >> still controlled. thats not, thats not a stall. falling out of the sky....

That because air traffic control did not know and had not communicated with them if they were talking to air traffic control, they could have told them about any problem they had on board. so whatever caused this caused the pilots to be unable to communicate or have no time to communicate. i suspect that as time goes on well find they were not able to communicate for one of many reasons. it could be equipment, it could be that they were incapacitated, et cetera. but i think they would have tried...

Germany. 30 minutes after takeoff it crashed in the french alps. we dont yet know why or how but according to an online flight tracker the plane descended 14,000 feet in 6 minutes. french president said no survivors are expected. i want to show you pictures of the crash area. you can see how mountainous and snow covered it is. there are currently seven helicopters standing by to go and get up to the crash site. we understand this is near a ski resort and a make shift morgue has been set up at a ...

Assured nobody who was wandering the happiest place on earth saw anything filling the sky because this was not a giant sky penis. it was a radar penis, only visible to those who happened to be on flight tracker 24. thats the website where you track the movement of various aircraft. in this case the skilled pilot took off and quickly made a sharp right-hand turn went left and then flew straight down one side, made 180-degree turn back flew down the other side before making another right and a few...

Assured nobody who was wandering the happiest place on earth saw anything filling the sky because this was not a giant sky penis. it was a radar penis, only visible to those who happened to be on flight tracker 24. thats the website where you track the movement of various aircraft. in this case the skilled pilot took off and quickly made a sharp right-hand turn went left and then flew straight down one side, made 180-degree turn back flew down the other side before making another right and a few...

Assured nobody who was wandering the happiest place on earth saw anything filling the sky because this was not a giant sky penis. it was a radar penis, only visible to those who happened to be on flight tracker 24. thats the website where you track the movement of various aircraft. in this case the skilled pilot took off and quickly made a sharp right-hand turn went left and then flew straight down one side, made 180-degree turn back flew down the other side before making another right and a few...

Thousands of flight cancellations across the country. according to website flight tracker, 5,000 cancellations, 5,000 delays and a lot of them as a direct result of the fact that this airport in the busy new york city air space is shut down forcing flights to be rerouted leaving a lot of people across the united states and internationally grounded right now. wolf? >> so whats the mood over there? i take it the passengers trying to reroute themselves, there must be a lot of frustration. on the ot...

Thank you. now back to the developing news out of london this morning. this is a situation with a virgin atlantic flight having to go back to gatwick airport to make what is called a landing here a nonstandard landing after some problems with the landing gear. that flight was headed to las vegas, actually. what youre looking at is a flight tracker here. you see in that highlighted neon green the kind of circle formation there. that is that particular flight that has to circle as theyre trying ...

Partially down not completely down they can attempt a landing and effectively see how it goes. if its completely within the aircraft they probably wouldnt be trying it im told. >> i was just going to ask you that question. they cant make a belly landing, right? >> no thats an extreme situation and very very dangerous, indeed. so until we have more information well have to get a sense of what that is. but if theyve been burning off the fuel with the intention to coming into land the assumption is...