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Literally force this giant aircraft that he was co-piloting to the ground. fox news correspondent john huddy is in london with some background. john. >> reporter: yeah, sean, that is the most pressing question at this point is why did he do what he did? why did he deliberately crash this plane into the mountainside at an estimated 500 miles per hour. now, amy touched on some of this. im going to elaborate a little bit more. what we know about andreas lubitz is that hes a german citizen. and he s...

But if you spent a year-and-a-half in depression and had to be taking a pause from your flight training, then you add up what could have happened to keep the pilot out of that cockpit and the plane eventually ends up in the side of a mountain, thats significant in the case. >> although this is happening on a budget airline in europe, were learning also that the co-pilot trained in phoenix, arizona, according to that tablo tabloid, saying that his time there being trained was interrupted multiple...

>> tom, if in fact this co-pilot was depressed, this is beyond a suicide. this is a mass murder. what would you do as an investigator to begin trying to really sort of unlock who this person was? >> well theyll be looking at everything in his life. as i mentioned earlier, trying to find out if theres some indication that hes having personal problems or that hes had them in the past. you know as david mentioned when they go through flight training thats one of the most stressful environments they...

Or bipolar disorder or severe personality disorder. it is a pretty small part of all of the stuff that these medical examiners look at. but it is a part of it. as far as frequency is concerned, if youre 40 or below, if youre 40 years of age or younger, you have to get this exam once a year, 40 or over has to be every six months. thats how the rules are structured here in the united states. obviously european nations may do some different things. but this question of screening for mental health d...

Security protocols are going to be reviewed very very carefully, and if there are recommendations made to the regulators and to the security agencies they may very well be mandated. >> take me because one of the other things in the headlines that we got out of this press conference is that the co-pilot had taken a leave for some reason of his training six years ago and then he resumed that training and since that time the ceo and others at lufthansa say they saw no red flags. is it unusual? woul...

For inappropriate with sexual behavior with women. the german newspaper is reporting tonight that he took a three-month break from his flight training because of depression. late today lufthansa announced its among a group of european airlines that will introduce a two-pilot rule in the cockpit, with the expectation it will be implemented as soon as possible. chris? >> doug, thank you. now to correspondent amy kellogg who is in the french alps near the crash site. amy? >> reporter: chris, a loca...

U.s. e-mail services for instance. thats also a role for the nsa and intelligence services. theres a lot of controversy over in europe about the fact that nsa scoops up a lot of communications in europeans in the normal course of what they do. i bet right now the german investigators are pretty happy that the nsa might have some of this stuff. what they want to look at is to see if theres anything that can show up from recent communications in the last month or couple of days that might shed lig...

Is responsible unless it can show that it did absolutely nothing wrong or a third party like a terrorist with a missile is solely responsible. >> just by letting this guy in the cockpit with wings on their shoulder, hes their agent. >> he is the carrier. >> jim thank you. >> thank you. jenna? >> jon, new details about the germanwings co-pilot and the connection to the united states. lubitz got part of his flight training in arizona in 2008. we have andrew out by that flight school near phoenix. ...

Bill: a moment ago we showed you this picture. this is andreas lubitz, age 25 a copilot for germanwings were now told through the french prosecutor he is the one that set that pilot or that plane rather on an intentional dive into the french alps on tuesday, tuesday morning. trained in phoenix for a time and apparently took some sort of leave of absence during his flight training. we dont know how or why the break in training occurred. grew up in germany, south-central part of the country hour f...

This 28-year-old co-pilot who the prosecutor says deliberately crashed the plane into the alps. the ceo of lufthansa said he passed all of the necessary qualifications, certifications. he passed flight training, medical screening. he says he was 100% fit to fly and that he had no record of problems. but the big looming question here is the fact that was he psychologically fit. we know that lufthansa does not have psychological testing for their pilots according to the company. i imagine thats go...