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Threat perception is what they think is happening and they may get it wrong because of that alone. these are difficult situations as the former assistant director said. and it's very easy to second guess and that split second decision that the officer is making we could talk about it for the next ten years whether it could be made or not be made. >> would it make any difference to use tasers for example, instead of lethal weapons? >> well the problem with a taser is it's one shot one chance and maybe it will work and maybe it won't. if you're an officer and you're in fear of your life you're g...

Wolf. it's unlikely however. i think what you have here is not the typical template for an emergency situation, which would be -- think of sully. you declare an emergency. it's a mayday. you look for the nearest landing field. you certainly wouldn't continue on to a mountain range if you had a problem like this. was the crew incapacitated or was there a problem with the pressurization system which allowed them to -- and they couldn't get a radio call off? was the plane not set up for altitude hold on the autopilot and it went down without them being awake, if you will? i suppose that's a possi...

Been pilot error? >> well i don't think you'd rule anything out at this point, wolf. pilot error is on the list as investigators go through the three big buckets that they look at which are, the human being, the machine and the environment. i'm downplaying that initially at least. the machine itself we need to look at the maintenance records, so if there was some specific problem with the airliner and the cockpit voice recorder and i suspect they'll find it in due course because the wreckage while in a rough area is concentrated in a relatively small space. it's not like it appears as if it wa...

Marseille with a long run way. is it possible that the pilots didn't know they had a problem? >> if you had some sort of false reading from the pitot tubes that gave you an idea that your speed or altitude was wrong or something that made you unaware situationally about where the plane was, it's true they could become distracted and didn't realize they were flying into the mountains. this sounds outrageous but, in fact it has happened before wolf we don't know if any of these scenarios is really what happened. we do know that investigators have to look at all of them right now. >> they certain...

Clock. each of these flights is a bit over an hour. so we have to look at it in the context of five or six flights a day whereas a 747 might do one flight a day. it's a hard-working airplane. i don't believe it's an airbus problem. otherwise this would have surfaced a long time ago. this type has been in service since 1998. this was delivered in 1991 to lufthansa, immaculately maintained by one of the best maintenance aircraft outfits in the world. it should check all the boxes. >> is there a potential problem of a plane like this being overused? >> no not at all. i mean i recently wolf flew o...