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Occur takeoff and landing. this is incredibly rare. >> it is and that's a horrific scene. from what i can gather from that video and from some of the data we've got that that airplane impacted that terrain at high speed, which, you know, pure speculation on my part but something occurred that there was -- something occurred in the cockpit that prevented the awareness that this terrain was in their immediate vicinity or they lost awareness, the crew lost awareness of where they were while they were handling and distracted by an emergency of some situation that we won't know until we recover the...

This person really walked you through a lot of the new details as far as the recovery mission, how helicopters can land in this region when they can land in this region. tell me what he told you. >> well, it's difficult terrain. it's very difficult to navigate. you can't drive there. you have to send helicopters with search and rescue officials on board to try to figure out first of all the lay of the land. where's the wreckage? how far is it strewn? how far is it scattered? he told me that so far -- this is about 45 minutes ago -- that no helicopter has been able to land. no bodies have been ...

It's part of the county sheriffs office. many of the people that help out are volunteers and they train in it. in france it's part of the police force. the rescuers that will be working on it are trained for this. so they're probably situationally aware. they know what they're looking for. when you see the wreckage of this plane in terrain like this it will -- it's very obvious it's not something of natural origin and they'll have to pay attention to it. >> special gear special equipment. conrad i'm sure we'll be tapping into your expertise in the coming days. thank you so much. for now, let m...