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Be assisting the french in this investigation, presumably looking into this co-pilots activities when he was training in arizona because he did as a part of the lufthansa training train in arizona, thats very common. lufthansa has a school in arizona that it uses. and they willen be looking at that and entire psychological profile of this 28-year-old. >> that could be where more answers come from. the distinction now for certain airlines looking at this as a security concern, we have some europe...

As a lufthansa training after attending prep school. the house believed to belong to lubitzs parents has curtains drawn. four police cars were parked outside and members of the flight club say he was happy with his job, rejecting the conclusion that he purposely crashed the plane. i dont see how anyone can draw such conclusions before the investigation is completed. though german newspaper reports he suffered from burnout syndrome. the club chair telling the associated press saying he completed ...

That but some of that gets passed along. to your point, medical and actual quantifiable skills are the things that are monitored on a regular basis. >> in 2009 during his training he had taken a six-month sabbatical and wanted to make sure it was not an indication of anything else and kind of common that they would have some type of burnout syndrome because of the intensity of the training that they go through. well wait to see the profile that continues to build of this 28-year-old young man an...

Industrywide group get together. because we dont want to increase more risk with the changes than were in fact mitigating. theres going to have to be a lot of discussion by the experts to make sure that the steps we take are the correct ones that provide us the maximum degree of safety and security. >> looking at this are there more layers to be added right away to make people safe for flying. >> john is alluding to the hostage scenario and preventing someone from getting inside the cockpit. its...

Confidence in the selection of all pilots and training of all pilots and squall fiction of all pilots and work of all pilots has not been touched by this single tragedy. >> and that was the ceo of lufthansa speaking right there. and now joining me onset is nbc nightly news anchor lester holt. as we learn about the fbi being involved. how do you think that will advance the investigation for french authorities? >> to the extent there was any training or flying in the united states, im not quite fa...

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 ...

We cant mistake criminal activity for terrorism. terrorism is criminal activity, but criminal activity isnt terrorism. we need to understand the profile of this guy. we need to look at what his religious persuasions were what is his psychological profile, how did he do through training you know what is his social profile. all of these factors will start to build this jigsaw puzzle. >> one thing we know in 2009 when he was in training he took a break, six months they described it as burn-out synd...

Evaluated, then theyre brought into a training program where theyre taught to fly the airlines way to fly airplanes from day one. its much more similar to the u.s. militarys approach. the u.s. military has very low-time pilots flying very very highly sophisticated airplanes, even into combat. so this type of training can produce high-quality aviators in a short period of flight hours. in addition, the licensing process that the europeans use is somewhat different. they use a multicrew license sy...

Andreas lubitz german security officials say theres no indications he had any terrorist background or connections. this morning the ceo of lufthansa said he was fit to fly and described his training. >> six years ago there was an interruption in his training and after we -- we qualified that he was ready for this job, he continued his training. he passed all medical tests and passed all aviation tests and passed all checks. >> the co-pilot school mate saying he took six months of a break due to ...