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This descent for 8 minutes and crashed. officials say teams from lufthansa and germanwings will head to the crash site to assist authorities in the investigation. french officials say there are likely no survivors. there you see the general area where the plane crashed. i want to bring back mikey kay, christopher dickey and anthony row main and jay rawlings. i want to start with you, anthony. talk about the a320 it is pretty much run by computers. >> that is correct. and there have been the crit...

Out of a safe place to be. with terrain like that this could be a very very large debris field indeed. its not like thinking back to the crash where it crashes in a a tight area and the debris can be recovered quickly. this can be a long drawn out process. >> it was close to nice, which can and does receive a320s all the time. they couldnt do it. bill, thank you for that report. stay with me were going to be updating this news. i want to go to former commercial pilot jay rollands. hes with us th...

Being man handled by the pilots in certain circumstances. however, a debris field of five miles suggests and i say suggests because it is so early in terms of developing the facts, suggests that there may have been an in flight air frame failure. when we have impact of an aircraft that is in a state of flying into the ground it just does not leave a debris field that wide and that diffuse. i think perhaps the pilots attempted to save the aircraft and overstressed it or perhaps there was an explo...

>> anthony and jay, i would like to bring you in on the conversation to answer bills question. >> yes. regarding the possibility of a clear air turbulence doing this i cant think of any crashes off the top of my head either, and if that had happened and caused such damage that they were unable to fly the aircraft it was -- now youre saying coming down faster than we thought, maybe 4,000 feet a minute. that being the case i am still wondering about the debris field. was it actually five miles or ...

Anthony row main and jay rawlings, lets continue the conversation. the fact that mikey, it was now apparently not 10 or 12 minutes as initially reported probably 8 minutes between the moment that plane got to cruising altitude, lost that cruising altitude altitude, and 8 minutes later went into part of the alps. at no time was anyone on board communicating with the ground. >> no. and i think the two big things that come out of that are first, there was no rt call radio transmission, may day or p...

Airplanes, jay rawlings and anthony roman and christopher dickey in with me this morning. thank you so much. i want to start with you, mr. roman. the fact that the plane, this is according to the press conference that we just heard minutes ago had just been at its ideal cruising height one minute before the descent occurred and there was absolutely no communication during descent, 8 to 14 minutes. no communication between anybody on board that plane and any control center either in france or ger...

Call acknowledged, whatever the call sign was, request your intentions. thats when the pilots will say intentions diversion, nice or wherever it is. then they will alert the destination airfield and then they will clear the circuit. they will tell all of the jets in the area to clear occupantut of the way. >> i want to go back to jay who is an experienced pilot. jay, talk to me about what is going on. we were seeing the weather, now youre seeing the actual conditions on this from france 24 our c...

Very mountainous area that this plane has gone down. jay, were you going to say something? >> yes, they would also need to try to get out some sort of a radio broadcast because you would want to let the airport know and the radar controllers know because that way they could assist in getting you on the best heading towards that airport. >> yeah christopher dickey joins our coverage. we were talking, when you see this area an area that is so part of -- that part of europe and italy and france thi...