in that press conference he said that based on analysis of the flight s cockpit voice recorder they now believe that the co-pilot deliberately locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately crashed the plane. he identified the co-pilot as 27-year-old andreas lubitz. now, here is what we know in terms of the timeline of what happened. at 10:00 a.m. in the morning on tuesday the plane took off from barcelona, spain to dusseldorf, germany. at 10:35 the plane reached a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet. shortly after that it s believed that the captain of the plane got up to go to the bathroom, leaving lubitz in charge of the aircraft. you could hear on the cockpit voice recorder that the captain had somehow gotten locked out. you could hear him screaming and trying to smash down the door. you can also hear the desperate
dusseldorf, germany. at 10:27, that is when they believe the plane reached a cruising altitude of some 38,000 feet. at that point it is thought that the captain got up to go to the bathroom leaving lubitz in control of the plane. the captain was somehow locked out of the cockpit on the cockpit flight recorder. you can hear the captain trying to smash down the door. you can hear the desperate screams of passengers in the final moments of that flight. now, it is believed that around 10:31 a.m. lubitz manually reset the autopilot and the plane began its descent and then by 10:40 the plane lost contact with radar at around 6,175 feet. and as we all know, the flight crashed into the french alps not far from here. george? erin, and just looking at your background, certainly