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Ira iran? >> we practice what we need to be practicing, and we practice different scenarios, different situations, so our product will be the best. and to well do what they need to deal with. >> reporter: after maneuvers and formation flying, the lieutenant colonel invited me to fly the simulator. the realism is almost hard to believe. its what helps train so rigorously for missions. the terrain, what im seeing around subcommittee up-to-date ngsz. not only within israels borders but outside, as ...

Surrounding israel. do you practice attacking iran? do you practice attacking isis? >> we are practicing on the main go goal. what we want to practice and pilot, we want them to know how to deal with. and we prefer to do it in the simulator for the first time, not in the real combat arena. >> reporter: as pilots hone their skills in the air, benjamin netanyahu has stressed all options are on the table when it comes to a nuclear iran. >> this is why -- this is why as prime minister of israel i ca...

Pilot suicide. yes, it does affect one. i remember when concord crashed. i was in between simulator duty with british airways at the time and we were unable to continue our simulator. a pair of us turned around to the training captain and said, im sorry, we cant concentrate and we need to stop and do it another day and that is, in fact, what happened. we are not alone in that. of course. but, you know, with time, we will move on. and accidents happen periodically. but rarely. and this particular...

Crew, and the plane. thats what i do as a pilot. >> reporter: is that why this incident has so disturbed the people in your profession? >> its unthinkable that a pilot would take an airplane and drive it into the ground. its not something we would ever think about. >> reporter: kyung lah, cnn, las vegas. >> joining me again, cnn aviation correspondent richard quest and with us, ron stock and airbus a320 captain. ron, its interesting to see that pilot in the simulator couldnt even bring himself t...

Simple as that. >> reporter: and were already starting to move down in the simulator. >> just because i did that action and pulled this button two steps, the airplane is now descending. >> reporter: it is such a simple move. >> it is. >> reporter: do most flight attendants know if theyre standing there, its at a crisis would a flight attendant know to turn it back to 38 thoub? >> a flight attendant would not touch this panel. i will tell the flight attendants were changing altitudes. i will say ...

Simulator in a scenario weve asked him to do for the purposes of this story, this pilot cannot stand it. does it exceed pilot instinct? is it human instinct to pull up the stick at that point? >> yes, im thinking about the safety of my passengers my crew and the plane. thats what i do as a pilot. >> reporter: is that why this incident has so disturbed the people in your profession? >> its unthinkable that a pilot would take an airplane and drive it into the ground. its not something we would eve...

Good to go. >> proximately nine minutes later, so now we would pull up and react. yeah, this is not a situation i have ever been in. >> what is happening to your hands after that crash? >> theyre sweaty. you can see it. in a of the years i have been flying in a simulator i never saw an airplane hit the ground. we recover it before that happens. >> so that was unthinkable for you. >> roger takes us through a manual scenario explaining that he basically did not do this based on the controls decent...

You think that he understood? >> well, it is a difficult subject for the pilot, because we are again, here, to keep the passengers safe, to keep the airplane safe, to keep the crew safe, and so to go where this young man went, it is hard for me to go there, and to say that i am fit to fly, i am good to go and ready to take on the airplane. >> reporter: and all of the lives in the back this is. >> that is right. >> reporter: approximately 9 minutes later -- >> pull up, pull up. terrain, terrain. ...

That i had not thought of, and trying different medications and treatments. >> and everyone stay with me, because going into the simulator with the pilot to go into the final moments of the final moments of the simulator the, and see how that pilot reacts. ♪i leave a story untold... he just keeps sending more pictures... if youre a free-range chicken, you roam free. its what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. its what you do. ♪ two whee...

>> this the worst situation ive been in. >> reporter: what happens to your hands after that crash? >> theyre sweaty. you can see it. in all the years ive been flying a simulator, never seen an airplane hit the ground. we recover the airplane before that happens. >> reporter: so that was unthinkable. for you. >> yeah. hard to see. >> reporter: roger takes us through a manual scenario explaining the germanwings pilot likely did not do this based on the control descent. >> pull up. >> reporter: its...