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The door but remained locked from the inside from the audio, investigators say lubitz breathing was steady until the plane crashed into the mountains. and there was no indication he was experiencing a medical emergency, but he didn't utter a word. officials say there was no way for the flight crew to activate any sort of distress signal from outside of the cockpit. the prosecutor says he believes the passengers were apparently unaware of what was happening until the final moments when screams could be heard on the recording. >> just horrible to imagine. nic joins us from the crash site. how lo...

U.s. did, and part of the defense would be in court, we didn't do anything wrong. we followed the rules, and in this terrible thing, it happened. >> and how difficult to prove fault in a case like this? >> and you know, i'm a plaintiff's lawyer, and we don't have to prove fault, but the airline has to prove it is without fault, and what the airline would do in this circumstance, it would say, look, we followed the regulations, and it may be that we, you know, it could have had this procedure, and maybe that procedure could have stopped this, but we were not required to have this proceed your t...

Descending into. it's just told descend. >> david, another viewer, lamar asked, how about having security officers on every flight? obviously, u.s., a lot of flights have air marshals, in europe, it doesn't exist, does it? >> i'm not familiar what they do in europe as far as that goes but the air marshal system is set up to mitigate the risk the best they can. it's all about cost and functional ity and if there's a air marshal, would be easy to do that eventually. so that creates risk. >> do they have them in europe? >> some but not many. >> i guess in a situation like this in the united state...

Richard jorge writes on facebook, why aren't pilots equipped with a special code to override the lock door even locked from the inside but i can tell you the answer to this, but i'll let you. >> the object of the exercise is you want, let's say the pilot is outside the cockpit and somebody decided the take over the aircraft. a knife or just any form of torture to try to get into the cockpit. the goal is to ultimately give the men or women in the cockpit the final say over who comes in. unfortunately, it's an adverse effect as we see at the moment but that's the only way to do it. >> likely som...

So the risk with being able to intercept the signal and then take over control from someone other than air traffic existed and weren't able to mitigate that well. >> should we not wait until the flight data recorder is found before we jump to conclusions about what happened in the cockpit? >> good question. but, you know, i think at this point from what we know from the cockpit voice recorder, we're kind of reversing the normal accident piece together process. so this is half of the puzzle. the cockpit voice recorder is the other half, probably the digital flight data recorder would add to the...