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There recess metallic banging more than three times which paris match suggests may have been the captain trying to force his way back into the cockpit after being locked out by the co-pilot. toward the end theres said to be a heavy shake stronger than the others. apparently as part of the plane scrapes the mountain. the screams intensify, and then nothing. tonight lufthansa airlines is acknowledgeing for the first time that it knew the co-pilot andreas lubitz had a history of psychological probl...

Andreas lubitz self-reported, even turned over his medical records to the airline when he was going through training indicating that he had just been through a severe bout with depression. tonight, lufthansa officials are admitting it knew it 2009 during flight training that andreas lubitz had suffered from a, quote, severe bout of depression. >> i would expect lufthansa would have handed over everything and would have worked with the prosecutor and investigators to find the solutions. and if th...

Andreas lubitz showing that he suffered from quote, severe depression. thats the reason why lubitz interrupted his own flight traininging in 2009. originally as you may recall lufthansa, the parent company of germanwings insisted the co-pilot on that doomed jet was 100% fit to fly. cnns familiar la brown has new details from dusseldorf germany. >> reporter: tonight lust taunz saturday officials are admitting it knew during 2009 during flight training that andreas lubitz had suffered from a previ...

Miss that still get behind, you know, the controls of an aircraft that shouldnt be. i think its just -- its not scientific enough to be able to tell with 100% certainty who can fly a plane and who shouldnt be up there. >> how specifically do you think pilots will be more vetted now? not just the pilots that fly internationally but those in the u.s. flying domestically. apparently the u.s. has a bit more stringent guidelines. will those be stepped up as well and how? >> i dont know that we have m...

Background check just by virtue of the fact that he was foreign to the country when he came to the u.s. so the tsa would have got involved. he never would have been able to begin his flight training number one. so that was more a nefarious type background check. they would not, more than likely have looked into anything by way of medical issues or mental disorder type issues. you know in this day and age hiring a pilot does require some pretty serious background checks. most of us go through eve...

In the final days before the crash the fatal crash, this co pilot andreas lubitz apparently had told his girlfriend, im planning a heinous attack that will be remembered forever. he said he wanted to do something that would change the entire system. she also said that, according to a german newspaper there, that he would wake up in these fits during nightmares, saying things like the plane is going down, or were all going down. >> lubitz was apparently profoundly mentally ill and under a doctors...

The bridge of my nose. >> i think that its disgusting that people were laugh asking smiling about it. no one offered to help or call 911. >> as the train pulled into the station the security guard saw part of the beating and called police. they know exactly who theyre looking for. they have clear images of the groups faces on camera. they have third degree assault and misdemeanor. theres a lot to tell you about this morning. >> major develops and the next hour of your new day starts now. > �...

Managers. >> yeah, you know, that is a terrific question. going back a few decades the airlines at one point had a flight surgeons office where medical information actually flowed into the airline and these people were evaluated. they really did away with that practice and put the burden on the pilot to make sure he gets the medical clearance. it would seem to me in todays day and age, and even particularly with this case because lufthansa was on notice back when this young man was training in a...

Citizen. and he started his flight training in 2008. but he halted it put it on pause in 2009 for six months. its unclear why. again, as amy was talking about there were reports maybe he was burnt out depressed. thats not confirmed. airline officials didnt confirm anything like that. they didnt go into any detail. but they said when he came back after that six-month break he went through psychological testing. he was deemed fit to continue with the training. and then he actually started flying i...

Something like this? and again, thats simply we dont know one way or the other. >> there will be hints. there are tiny threads that they will look for to try to knit together the broader answer to those questions. >> tom, we know france requested fbi assistance with the investigation. what does that look like exactly? how might the fbi be able to help in this? >> normally that would be checking databases, here in the u.s. he did spend time in the u.s. doing flight training. so theyll want to try...