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I want you to take note of all the red at the zero level. you see here? because that is how often and how long lubitz according to this report set the plane to drop toward 100 feet. the same auto pilot setting flight 9525 was at when it collided in the french alps. the report said lubitz did these dry runs over a period of five minutes when the pilot had apparently left the cockpit briefly and after air traffic control had directed the plane to go to a lower altitude. with me now, aviation attorney daniel rose and cnn analyst mary schiavo. welcome to both of you. i have a lot of questions. mar...

That co-pilot of the doomed germanwings flight committed mass murder. investigators now believe andreas lubitz repeatedly practiced putting the plane into a deadly descent on the flight right before the one that left all 150 people on board dead. the information comes from a preliminary report by the b.e.a. the french agency investigating the march 24th crash. it put forth this graph to explain how lubitz rehearsed. note the red at zero level there. so this is exactly how long and how often lubitz according to this report set the plane to drop toward 100 feet. the same auto pilot setting fligh...

Altitude of 100 feet. then on several occasions during the descent, the pilot modified the auto pilot setting to increase the speed of the airplane in descent. and investigators say he was alive and he was conscious right up until that final impact. but this is just the initial reading. we are standing by waiting for what else this flight data recorder may reveal to investigators. let's go to dusseldorf to my colleague, pamela brown, and also shawn pernicky. welcome to both of you. pamela first just on what we're reporting today, i know investigators say they were concerned. they may not have ...