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Roger, a current commercial pilot. you have 20 years flying in commercial airlines. were actually in a simulator, correct? >> thats right. were in a-320 simulator, the same type of aircraft same cockpit that germanwings was using. >> and lets talk about the lock on the door and what this two-person rule, why its coming into play. >> with the reinforced cockpit door we have to have people come in and to go out. when somebody is on the outside of the door and wants to come in, they will enter in a...

This is a simulator, we dont allow that to happen. >> richard, you and i were watching that. you had the same situation in simulators. >> the instructor will not even countenance the idea. they dont even want to think about it. dont want to try it. not only that, there have been times in the simulator i got into trouble and the instructor wont just switch it back. hell take the controls, and theyll fly it out. its a mental blockage. they dare not go to the idea that this isnt real. >> ron, its i...

Allow the airplane to hit the ground. we practice those maneuvers. it is called controlled flight into terrain. we practice that maneuver in the airplane purposely so that if we do get a warning like that, terrain, terrain, pull up, we know what to do immediately. and nobody even though we know this is a simulator, we dont allow that to happen. >> richard, you and i were watching that. you had the same situation in simulators. >> the instructor will not even countenance the idea. they dont even ...

Site because just lifting these workers just one by one it the helicopter seems like it will take forever. thank you very much. cnn went inside a flight simulator to find out how the cockpit may have looked and sounded just minutes before the flight crashed. the pilot who provided our demonstration says what andreas lubitz did defies comprehension and goes against every instinct of a pilot. we get more if cnns kyung lah. locked the physical lock on the door. ic that to lock, it will totally ...

>> were flying over very much -- were flying other the alps in this simulator. >> right now we are. >> tell me about that -- the thought process of turning this to 100 over the alps where there is clearly nowhere to land. >> right. so this is a very difficult subject, right, because why would any pilot put in 100 feet over the alps and theres only one reason and thats to descend the airplane into the mountains. once i set 100 feet here i can stop it immediately. were in a descent right now comin...

In all the years ive been flying in a simulator, ive never seen an airplane hit the ground. we recover 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 controlled descent. >> pull up! >> reporter: uncomfortable. >> it is. lets just -- can we come out of this? >> pull up! >> get out of this. no need to take it through the -- >> pull up...

Germanwings co-pilot andreas lubitz hid his medical illness and then he deliberately flew the airplane into the mountain killing all of the people on board. we asked kyung lah to use a simulator and a pilot to show us what happened. >> and you lock this door. >> reporter: and so begins what is like ti descent of the germanwings flight. we are in a a320 simulator with buck roger who currently flies with a commercial airliner. >> we dial in the altitude here, and got it going down. r. >> reporter:...

In a couple of cases where the simulator seemed to be deter appreciated and it turns out that there was an under lying problem that they were able to deal with medically. >> so pilots that could have psychological problems could be flying under the radar of the employer? >> sure. sure. how do you overcome that? >> the only way to overcome it really is to have a serious self-reporting method similar to the way that we have now and just trust that the pilots are going that fortunately. >> the fbi ...

Instrumentation, alerts alarms anything else that goes on in the cockpit. all of these are downloaded and played in played in synchronization and joined with the flight data recorder that is hopefully found. radar information, weather information. there are so many inputs before we get a meaningful take on this. >> just quickly, do you think well hear passengers jumping in to assist this pilot trying to get in the cockpit door? >> thats a tough dig. >> we will wait for that final report. i app...

Hours professionally in the air, this doesnt seem odd. this just seems like a young pilot. theyre saying he was able to set the flight controls from 38,000 feet, where it was at its cruising altitude to 100. thats a big reveal. >> what we cant do, thomas, is mistake experience for competency. you know the captain will be significantly experienced, possibly with tens of thousands of hours and obviously hugely competent. but there will be competency tests through training rigorous training, where ...