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Relatives who one of our crews met outside a residential building here that in fact patrick was the man who was steering that plane. Patrick sondenheimer. Weve known from lufthansa that he was a captain who had been flying with the airline both lufthansa and germanwings as well as another German Airline called condor for ten years. He had 6,000 flying hours. By all means a very very experienced pie lt. He was also the one who tried to get back into the cockpit, first knocking a little bit normal...

Im carol costello. Good morning. We begin with breaking news. A Turkish Airlines flight with 250 passengers on board has been diverted to an Emergency Landing after a note with the word bomb was found in the bathroom it was headed for san paulo and now in casablanca. We will continue to monitor the situation as we get it into cnn. Turning now to the germanwings airliner and all those on board in chilling detail. According to the interrupt bild. The voice recorder has the pilot pleading to his co...

The context of todays troubles would be more problematic. I spent almost 30 years in the United States senate and i had the privilege and responsibility of chairing the Foreign Relations committee when we put tough sanctions in place when this regime was put in place. That is the regime that indeed has brought in negotiation about. We are deeply grateful for congresss support of the diplomatic path to date. We appreciate their patience. There were those agitating to take action earlier. Responsi...

Were 17 days ago. Hold on. Something new, though, spotted in the water. French Officials Say one of their satellites picked up what might be debris in the southern indian ocean. Airborne search crews are heading to that area to check that out. The malaysian government today cast doubt on the theory that someone punched new flight directions into the airplane in midflight. They say the last communication from the flight deck showed a normal programmed route to beijing. Flight 370s intended destin...

Hours. Search coordinators describe what theyre looking for as acoustic v events. Pilots call them pings. Well talk much, much more about that with an audio expert coming up. Chinese searchers say they picked up pings twice. Over two days. Also today investigators trying to figure out why the plane would fly this route. Skirting the coast of indonesia before heading for the open ocean. That flight plan was confirmed today by malaysian officials. And if youre counting days, like a lot of people a...

The top of this segment. the prosecutor in marseille, he is expected to brief reporters any moment. were going to take you there because this is critical information in what a is massive crime and a crime scene. would this -- would this information yield the fact that this co-pilot may have in fact programmed the auto pilot to take this plane into the mountains? >> well, lets distinguish the mode control panel works both in conjunction with the pilot hand flying and using the auto pilot. really,...

Flight data recorder has recordings of hundreds of other parameters. one of the parameters is going to be whether that co-pilot utilized the mode control panel in conjunction with the auto pilot to fly into terrain, whether that co-pilot used hand anying. that information will be readily available. >> would we also find out if he manually used those available buttons that are right there in that center console -- this is the nonaviators term for it, that will continually lock somehow out of the ...

100 feet did he sit back and let the plane do what it could do? >> pretty much so. as les can tell you these plane planes are mig sent andagnificent and can fly themselves. he did not have to do a thing. i have worked other crashes where suicide was the motive egypt air and others. they talk. on egypt air they said god is great, god be with me et cetera. even in a non-suicide situation where people are in an accident emergency situation they know theyre not going to recover from oftentimes they ...

So that second person is in here -- >> the flight attendant for example. >> would be in here and could verify the person on the outside of the door before opening it. >> so she doesnt touch this. >> no this is the cockpit door lock. this is for pilots and pilots only. this switch is so i can -- if somebody is at the door i dont want them to come in i can take the switch to lock and that would completely lock out the electronic keypad on that door. i also have a mechanical lock i can go back to t...

How many commercial flights are there around the world every day? 40,000 or so. and over the past 25 years, how many airplanes have gone missing? i can think of one. there are practical questions -- >> and we mentioned, there have been a fewer number of crashes this year than weve seen since 1927. so it is important to keep the bigger picture perspective. lets ask another question here. this is from john. he asks can pilots override traffic control amiss imminent danger? >> absolutely. in this p...