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In atlanta? not yet. let me go to les then. frank frankly, what the german prosecutor says doesnt help us much understand anything further about what happened in the french alps. >> this man obviously had issues. as far as we know there was nothing tied to terrorism. obviously, this man had -- there was a six month time period or 18 month, i believe it was, in his training program, where he had to take a leave of absence. that would send up a red flag for anybody involved with this training proc...

Concern for how i was getting along with my family. and upset the flight attendant and thought it was very offensive. he verbalized other passengers thinking the same thing. in a way we have failed our customers our passengers are the post important people that make this airline business what is it. we take it very personally. to miles point by the way with reference to this program that lufthansa has, hes absolutely right. in this country 1500 hours its very important. this is somebody that wen...

Indicate that he believed that the airliner had dropped the ball at all. i dont know if that was simply he stunned at what went on if its a question of liability. but he said that this person was absolutely ready to fly, able to fly. clearly, this person was nots. >> he divided it into various categories. first of all, the selection process, which said they were proud of the training process, both in bremen and phoenix, arizona. again, this is you have to bear in mind with this ceo. he has worke...

Nobody caught anything up until now. we know that lufthansa, and for that matter u.s. airlines only do a psychological screening during the initial hiring process and training process. but once youre on board as a certified pilot whos actually flying, theres no regular psychological screening process. you go through a physical depending on your age, every six months or every year but as a part of that physical there is no psychological workup. i just got off the phone, in fact, with a flight sur...

Obviously in a typical investigation were looking at mechanical. were looking at weather. here we are now looking into the mental health the background of this pilot which may include training in arizona here. what are the key questions you believe should be asked about this co-pilot? >> tamron, the big thing is now that this is the most subjective part of any pilot. that is, its the soft skills and the human psyche. we have seen event like this in previous crashes. ive worked on silk air 115 in...

Make sure that the pilot is qualified, and after this interaction he was qualified to continue his training and thats what he did. and this dropping out took place six years ago. >> which consequences will this accident imply for the choice of pilots and for the training program of pilots? >> i would like to repeat what i said earlier. in spite -- and i hope i talk for everybody. in spite of this horrible accident, this horrible tragedy, i and my colleagues have total confidence in the selection...

Examination of all electronic devices and a review of the psychological profile and associations he had during the assessment process and the training process at lufthansa. so those fundamentally are going to occur. they will naturally develop additional leads in every one of those three segments. so the investigation is going to be long. its going to be complex. its going to take some time to get answers. >> i want to go right now to nbcs katy tur, live in cologne, germany. katie, good morning....

Fisherman who testified for the u.n. described his abduction in 1970. >> translator: ten armed people north koreans were shooting at us. they were yelling at us, come down or we will kill you. >> reporter: why were so many abducted? >> some were taken and forced to teach foreign languages and cultures to north korean overseas intelligence agents north korean spies as part of the training process. >> reporter: a north korean representative at the u.n. hung up on us when we called to get their res...

Not time to recover. we had some upset incidents back in the early 90s that began a new training process just to reacquaint ourselves with unusual late ti attitude. something we got in primary flight training. >> one last question in here about the new information given that they i.d.d a woman who still had her i.d. on her body and was wearing jewelry. does that give us any more clues? >> its hard to draw too many conclusions. different parts of the airplane could experience different conditions...

And talk to you about it from both the viewpoint of the police and from the viewpoint of the community. and how foundational a change in training is to everything that comes thereafter. commissioner will also talk about the ongoing work that he does to bring in community leaders and listen to what they suggest. this is another hallmark of this commissioner. we first started working together. i often had the experience. id call him, be in the middle of a meeting, hed call me back say he was meeti...