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Going back to that navigate bit of the mantra, pilot looks up, looks at his equipment and says where's the nearest airfield. . the chances are the airfield is going to be concealed by cloud. you can see if the pilot is trying to land this aircraft the airstrip if it's within the proximity of the region will be covered by cloud up until whatever the cloud base is. the cloud base is on the peaks of the mountain. it's going to be an incredible difficult situation because the pilots are not going to get visual potentially if they have a diversion airfield. they are not going -- they are going to h...

Things like wind. if there's a southerly wind flow, does the pilot want to turn the aircraft into wind. that's going against the aircraft. or is it like toulouse or somewhere to the north. next is the communication. it happens in two areas. the first is a radio transmission call that can be form in the may day and pan. >> 7700 was the one punched in. >> you have a radio call and then a transponder communication message, which is the 7700. that forms part of the third aspect of this emergency mantra they have to do. this looks at the altitude, speed and time profile. what we can see is it's sta...

Tragedy. it's one of those things where you have shown probably footage of people waiting in the airport. >> and in barcelona as well. >> i have done a lot of flying up in the north of norway, a lot of flying in this particular region of the alps and as a pilot and as a crew, when you talk about surviving, actually surviving the tragedy or the crash, the major aspect is how do you survive the conditions? you're talking about on the tops here, highly unlikely that anyone would have survived given the nature of what we're looking at. even if someone did, they are stuck on a 10,000-foot peak with...

Pilot or co-pilot and anybody on ground control either in germany or france or spain. this is the press conference that is just beginning. we are going to get our translator on board on this so that we can bring you this. it is a press conference by officials germanwings speaking. and the french president, francois hollande says probably no french citizens on board this flight. >> reporter: well that's right. but we know the majority of people aboard the flight were german as well as spanish. german people by the way, during this time of year do travel to barcelona for vacation. this was a bud...

Marseilles or nice or in italy or switzerland and they didn't do that. >> exactly. that's what's lending to the theory that tom put out there that they were probably somehow incapacitated, but maybe they were confused. maybe there was some sort of toxin in the air that would confuse them because why would you not make attempt to make a quick radio call over 8 minutes and eventually put in a 7700 emergency code. so they were somewhat conscious, yet there's no evidence to point to them looking for another airport. you really needed air traffic control in on this one because they could have given...