A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Been hijacked or what was going on. The two fighter jets escorted him and they would trail behind him i dont know what they were trying to do at that time. Like i said i was unclear of what was going on. He headed down towards where eventually crashed at and pulled the nose backup again and i thought hes going to stall again. He made his way down and i looked again and he was in a nose dive and he went into the ground. I saw a brief flash of flames and big plume of smoke and the sound of explosion. I just had a bad feeling that it was not an exercise or anything. I knew he had crash at that point. Cnn transportation analyst, and on the phone, renee marsh,
from mh370 and the german wings crash that there are Something Like cameras in cockpit and other types of recorder that can be implemented but the industry rejects those in many circumstances. There is no guarantee of what can be determined as preventive measure after thi
Lets begin with the breaking news. Were getting new details about the crash of a germanwings passenger plane in southeastern france. An official in the area where the plane went down says it was obliterated and describes a horrific crash scene. According to reuters, a french official says a black box from the plane has been recovered. The airline says there were 150 people on board the plane, 144 passengers and six crew members. The french president , Francois Hollande says its unlikely anyone survived. There are 350 firefighters more than 300 Police Taking part in the operation of the crash zone right now. But the terrain and the weather are making it extremely difficult. A mountain guide says helicopters are the only way to get there at least right now. A french aviation official says it was air Traffic Control, yes, air Traffic Control, not the plane, that initiated the distress call after they lost radio contact. The plane dropped from 38,000 feet to 24,000 feet in just six minutes
Understanding with them. The decision to undercut our president and circumvent our constitutional system offends me as a matter of principle. And that exactly there is what set off the white house so fiercely. This attempted notion that it undermines the president s authority, something i should say the white house is especially sensitive to coming off the heels of that controversy over israeli Prime Minister netanyahuBenjamin Netanyahus visit to the you states last week. Now the freshman republican from arkansas did get 46 other republican senators to sign on to this letter including Senate Majority ladier mitch mm mcconnell,ing and he fiercely defended the letter saying he believes there are nothing but iranian hardliners in iran that wont agree to any deal. The president already said a deal could have as little as a tenyear sunset on it. Iran could have uranium enrichment capabilities. The critical component of developing a nuclear bomb. Whatever else those terms make it unaccept to
We saw the video with our colleagues and it was kind of disturbing upsetting material. Its shot in the cabin. It shows there was a lot of chaos. People were aware of where this was heading. It seems the to document there was a bang on what sounds like a bang on a door which kind of is in line with results of the previous investigation that say the pilot was trying to break into the cockpit. That is what we saw. That by the way was not the only major revelation from the german editor. He is claiming the young copilot, the 27yearold lubitz accused of deliberately crashing the plane that he lied to his doctors. That he wasnt flying off duty and trying to get back in the cockpit. For all these families this is all about the search now. Today, we are getting new pictures. These are photos we have never seen before up close on the ground here amid the germanwings wreckage. Searchers on their hands and knees in this narrow ravine and beyond. Deep here in the french alps going through debris s
Where actor Harrison Ford remains hospitalized. This after a small plane that he was piloting suffered an apparent engine failure and came down crashing on a golf course thursday afternoon. His publicist says he was banged up but his injuries are not life threatening. An investigation is under way at this hour. In the air Traffic Control audio, you could hear ford make the emergency call just after takeoff. Listen. Ford was flying solo in the back seat of his vintage world war ii era military training plane. Cnns kyung lah has more from the scene of that crash and the investigation in venice california. Reporter firefighters are here as well as investigators, still trying to figure out why the engine of this plane, a plane that Harrison Ford was piloting why it suddenly lost power. He did manage to make an extraordinary landing. This area that you see right behind me this is a golf course. All that green grass youre looking at thats the vintage plane. You can see that the nose has brok