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Aircraft into a mountain. but it may also be compatible with an aircraft which is controlled by an automatic pilot. but at the moment, once again, no explanations. and to answer the other gentleman's question why you can't say more, well, this audio file, we've only had it a few minutes. and in a few minutes, it's not possible listening to voices to say it's the crew, it's the captain, co-pilot. we need more time to check that out. >> translator: can you say if you hear voices up to the moment of impact? >> translator: it's not that easy. so i have no other comment on that. >> translator: so y...

That listening device. >> reporter: flight 9525 took off at 10:01 tuesday morning from barcelona bound for dusseldorf germany with 150 people on board. investigators say the plane reached a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet. it descended for about ten minutes. the plane disappeared from french radar when it was at around 6,000 feet. investigators say the descent appeared controlled. >> the curve is compatible with an aircraft controlled by pilots except for the fact that we can't imagine pilots consciously sending an aircraft into a mountain but it may also be compatible with an aircraft which ...

Success. >> one of the audio streams is readable. >> reporter: the cockpit voice recorder captured audio up to the moment of impact. it will provide critical information like whether the pilots were talking in the minutes leading up to the crash. >> they can hear what switches are being thrown and what buttons are being pushed. >> reporter: investigators say the plane disappeared from radar 53 minutes after takeoff and the final minutes of dissent appeared controlled. >> translator: the curve is compatible with an aircraft controlled by pilots except for the fact that we can't imagine pilots c...

Have happened here. in the absence of that you have to look at some sort of event on board that took out, incompetent kpas tatd the crew maybe had time to get on auto pilot, make an orderly descent, and couldn't pick it up after they got down to whatever the altitude was, 8, 5, 6, not sure what the final altitude was. >> gentlemen, this is the information getting from the press conference on part of the screen officials at germanwings. saying among other things the captain had been flying this had ten years experience with the lufthansa group, with lufthansa and germanwings. this airplane whic...

An emergency inbound flight approximately ten minutes and will clear the circuit. that's the protocol we should expect. >> people have to see this area where it is rugged there's a lot of mountains, there are a lot of airports right nearby. >> there are, if you're at 38,000 feet. if you're dropping and you're on automatic pilot and the crew is incapacitated, which seems to be the theory that's growing on air, but seems to be credible then no, there are not that many you can get to if you're on that stralgt route into the mountains. once you drop e below 10,000 feet in those mountains, you're d...