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Back now to the breaking news on our top story. we are getting new details about how security measures on that doomed germanwings flight may have backfired. french officials accusing the g the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately crashing the plane into a mountain killing 149 innocents. could it happen here? lets bring back our panel now, rob mark john than gilliam and kathleen banks. what about that? we have different rules about what happens when the captain leaves the cockpit, robert? ...

Back now to the breaking news on our top story. we are getting new details about how security measures on that doomed germanwings flight may have backfired. french officials accusing the co-pilot of locking the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately crashing the plane into a mountain killing 149 innocents. could it happen here? lets bring back our panel now, rob mark john than gilliam and kathleen banks. what about that? we have different rules about what happens when the captain leaves the...

Happened to him psychologically. >> right. >> megyn if i could -- oh go ahead. >> go ahead, kathleen. >> if its true that that break that he took had something to do with depression thats going to be very very interesting. because you know suicide is not just depression. its really rage turned inward. what he did was a very spiteful act of rage if this turns out to be true that he perpetrated this tragedy. so thats going to be very very interesting to find out if theres any records on that. any ...

Is, if it was deliberate, why not take the plane straight in? why program an eight-minute fatal descent? megyn. >> trace, thank you. so how is it that authorities can seemingly rule out terror so soon? lets bring in our panel. robert mark is publisher of jet wine.com and former pilot. and kathleen bangs is a former commercial airline pilot and former airline training instructor. thank you all for being here. jonathan, let me start with you as an investigator on your thoughts on how they can say ...

Certain -- in a certain way that plane will fly itself directly into the ground. the fact that that happened just telling us and also the fact that he overrode the door lock mechanism tells us he had an intention. >> and what do you make of the door situation, robert, on this? because those doors are reinforced after 9/11. is there any way, i mean, as the passengers understood although it was the last minute that this jet was going down and must have seen their pilot banging on the cockpit door ...

Is, if it was deliberate, why not take the plane straight in? why program an eight-minute fatal descent? megyn. >> trace, thank you. so how is it that authorities can seemingly rule out terror so soon? lets bring in our panel. robert mark is publisher of jet wine.com and former pilot. and kathleen bangs is a former commercial airline pilot and former airline training instructor. thank you all for being here. jonathan, let me start with you as an investigator on your thoughts on how they can say ...

Certain -- in a certain way that plane will fly itself directly into the ground. the fact that that happened just telling us and also the fact that he overrode the door lock mechanism tells us he had an intention. >> and what do you make of the door situation, robert, on this? because those doors are reinforced after 9/11. is there any way, i mean, as the passengers understood although it was the last minute that this jet was going down and must have seen their pilot banging on the cockpit door ...

Is, if it was deliberate, why not take the plane straight in? why program an eight-minute fatal descent? megyn. >> trace, thank you. so how is it that authorities can seemingly rule out terror so soon? lets bring in our panel. robert mark is publisher of jet wine.com and former pilot. and kathleen bangs is a former commercial airline pilot and former airline training instructor. thank you all for being here. jonathan, let me start with you as an investigator on your thoughts on how they can say ...

Back on the screen for our viewers. if you put that switch in the down mode that means youre locked out. based on everybody we talked to over the past several hours there is no way to override that, is that true? >> thats correct. again, we talked about why it was in, put in place after 9/11. no one wanted to see someone intentionally get into the cockpit and it was meant to department bad guys out. it has done a really good job of that. unfortunately sometimes when you fix one problem you creat...

Investigation as well so all these details are very important. all that is making the process here very slow. finding that tiny data recorder in the rock and rubble of the hillside thats been freshly broken apart is very challenging. >> certainly is. i want to dig deeper now. joining us our aviation analyst, former ntsb managing director peter goalz, our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, our safety analyst david soucie former faa safety inspector and accident investigator. robert mark is also...