Our breaking news, a cruel and stunning new twist to a horrific catastrophe. The airliner crash that killed 150 people in the french alps is now being called deliberate. The french Prosecutor Says the copilot wanted to destroy the aircraft. Based on chilling cockpit audio, officials now say the copilot locked the captain out and ignoring the pounding at the door and the screaming that was going on put the plane into a descent that took it into a mountainside. The fbi has been called into the crash investigation and u. S. Officials say intelligence agencies are still looking for a possible possible terror link. Our correspondents analysts and guests are all standing by with the latest developments. But lets begin with our Senior International correspondent, Nic Robertson. Hes near the crash scene and has the latest. Nic . Reporter well this was a day where the family members of the victims of that crash got a chance to get close to that site. They couldnt get all the way there. The Germ
3 00 eastern here in the news room, and joining you from new york first up a new and Shocking Development in the downing of the plane, was the copilot who investigatoring deliberately took down the plane, hiding a psychiatric condition . The exgirlfriend of the 27yearold lubitz saying he was a troubled man who often had bad dreams that his plane was going down. Cnn cannot independently confirm that report. This comes after police found ripped up documents in the home of the 27yearold copilot saying he was, quote, unfit to work on a number of days including on tuesday, the very day that lubitz decided to steer that air bus a320 into the southern french alp. What was ailing lubitz thinking thats not yet been revealed. In addition to reports citing sources he was suffering from a Mental Illness, and new report in the New York Times says he was treated for vision problems that may have threaten his career. Lets go straight to the mountainside area where they are staging all this search and
Breaking news. New Surveillance Video surfacing tonight of the horrific amtrak crash. The video shows the moment of impact. Let me show it to you. This was at 9 21 on tuesday night. You see that massive explosion. That is when the train controlled by the engineer Brandon Bostian hit a curve and flew off the rails. The ntsb revealed that the train akccelerated to 100 miles an hour. The seconds later, the train hit the curve and crashed. Investigators are telling us several new things tonight. They actually heard physically the sound of the brakes being applied by the engineer at the last instant. Thats something that bostian says he didnt recall doing. They say the trains brakes and signals all appeared to be in working order at the time of the crash. And investigators also say bostian agreed to meet with them for an interview. We have learned a lot about him today, including our interview with one of his Close Friends and former coworkers. Well begin with Jason Carroll out front tonigh
Pelley good evening, this is our western edition andconh francisco. ninrnrnininrco tonight, we have video never shown publicly before from the chaotic scene of that Asiana Airlines crash landing in San Francisco last summer. The videos important because it may answer a key question how was a teenaged girl who survived the impact later killed by a fire truck . Some of the video comes from that truck. 16yearold ye meng yuan was one of three people from the plane to die; 304 others survived. Her parents are suing the city of San Francisco, claiming the rescuers were reckless and poorly trained. Anna werner has the story and the video. Reporter this video is from a camera mounted on a firefighters helmet. Right through there thats it reporter it was provided to us by a source close to the family of ye meng yuan. Dont go in there. If anybody is there right now, theyre dead. Reporter at first, officials said the girl was accidentally run over because she may have been hidden in foam sprayed
New details and grim new discoveries in the crash of that airasia jet. The first bodies recovered have arrived on land. Seven have now been pulled from the java sea where the plane crashed with 162 people onboard and while Recovery Efforts are going full force on the water the air search has been held up by bad weather. Now theres conflicting information about whether the plane itself has been found. One search official tells cnn sonar has defected debris from the airbus a320, but the head of asia denies that. We are covering all angles with our correspondents including reporters in the region and our guests including captain sully sullenberger, the pilot behind the socalled miracle on the hudson but first, here is the latest that were learning. Two bodies from airasia flight 8501 arriving in indonesia and rushed to a hospital. This is their first stop before being sent on to surabaya where two victims arrived earlier. Their caskets marked 001 and 002. 100 military personnel there to p