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That's something i talked to a psychologist. they have a lot of emergency psychologists. he said that as well it's very important for a lot of people to visit the place where these horrible incidents happened. >> do we know much more about the pilots flying in the aircraft? >> reporter: it's interesting because that was also the second thing that i talked to the lufthansa spokesperson about as well and somebody at lufthansa commented as well. there isn't very much. they haven't put out a name. the on i had thing they commented on was the actual captain of the flight. this is someone who has a ...

Indication on who the pilots are and what their nationalities are. i think we can make that leap from what he was saying. joining us now from seyne-les-alps france. sooer keir simmons has been on the scene the whole time. in new york anthony roman. keir, first of all, what are you hearing on ground there? >> just to explain, helicopter that you can hear flying right over as you come to me that is the helicopter that are ferrying air accident investigators back and forth to the crash site which is in the mountain range behind me here. mika, there is absolute shock here at this news because for ...

Pilot out. the cockpit door automatically locks. in the united states you must have two people in the cockpit. so if a pilot leaves, a flight attendant is require today go in. it's unclear what the rules are in germany, but this would explain why during the ten-minute descent there is no mayday or any conversation at the ground. take a look at the cockpit of the a320. there's no center yoke or control column. instead airbus uses a side stick controller. so it would be more difficult for a potentially incapacitated pilot to slump over the controls pushing the plane down. now look at the flight ...

European aviation safety association. administration. so we know their concern according to this document stems from an a-321, that is the same family as the a-320. just slightly larger. the problem was that there were two, what's called an angle of attack probes on the airplane. essentially, what these two probes do is measure the angle of the plane to the horizon. if those two pieces of equipment are not functioning properly, you could have the situation where the pilot is getting the wrong indications inside of the cockpit and based on that wrong information, the pilot is then entering his ...

Investigation as well so all these details are very important. all that is making the process here very slow. finding that tiny data recorder in the rock and rubble of the hillside that's been freshly broken apart is very challenging. >> certainly is. i want to dig deeper now. joining us our aviation analyst, former ntsb managing director peter goalz, our law enforcement analyst tom fuentes, our safety analyst david soucie former faa safety inspector and accident investigator. robert mark is also joining us a commercial pilot, and via skype, aviation analyst miles o'brien o'brien. you have a t...