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Already been made by the troops to possibly, as some put it, speaking on local televisions yesterday, to try and take credit for whatever advances that have been already made once tikrit has been taken over. the feeling here is it's not an if, it's when tikrit is recaptured by the iraqi forces. rosemary? >> i know. we'll be watching that carefully, what is happening in tikrit, from her vantage did point in baghdad. many thanks to you. a number of other big stories we're following for you. a u.s. soldier accused of abandoning his unit on the battlefield could spend the rest of his life in pri...

As he mentioned, we are still waiting for reaction to the disturbing details. this twist we're hearing now respected in "the new york times." many thanks. errol? let's bring in captain desmond ross. ation industry veteran who is currently a principal at dra professional aviation services. as you see on the screen, he joins us live from sydney. captain ross, thanks for joining us again. you spoke with us this time yesterday. and your theory of something that something catastrophic must have happened on the plane, maybe kplegz blowout of some sort -- compression blowout of some sort. i'm wonde...

Errol? >> diana magnay live. quarter to 8:00 in the morning in germany as schoolchildren we'll do this grief as everyone else does. we pressure the update. -- we appreciate the update. thanks. >> you heard some of the nationalities there. we're learning of some of the other nationalities of the victims of flight 9525. the list is still not complete, of course. we need point that out. german -- germanwings' ceo says they come from at least 18 countries, most from germany which had 72 people on board. and spain, which had 49, there were also passengers from argentina, from australia, belgium, co...

That should override the locking mechanism. it holds for a period. there's also a tv camera out the door. the guy on the flight deck can see whether it is his companion coming back or whether there's somebody else trying to break in. and he can deny access even though the correct code is punched in. he has to do it quickly and insistence three maintain control of the door. in the middle of doing whatever was going on at that time, i'm not sure about all this. >> it is such a bizarre migs mystery, of course they'll look into the mental and physical health history of the piles and get the flight...

Deep you can almost sound divers down. you can send submersibles down. so they should be able to find the bulk of the wreckage. they'll be able to track that back and hopefully find using sonar with the ships in the area. they should be able to find the bulk of the wreckage quite quickly and it's only a matter of time before finding the voice recorders. >> captain ross, thanks again -- >> once they have the recorders, the analysis is quite fast. >> captain ross, sorry to interrupt you. but we appreciate that. obviously everyone wants to know exactly what happened to this plane. hopefully in th...