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Pilot out. the cockpit door automatically locks. in the united states you must have two people in the cockpit. so if a pilot leaves, a flight attendant is require today go in. it's unclear what the rules are in germany, but this would explain why during the ten-minute descent there is no mayday or any conversation at the ground. take a look at the cockpit of the a320. there's no center yoke or control column. instead airbus uses a side stick controller. so it would be more difficult for a potentially incapacitated pilot to slump over the controls pushing the plane down. now look at the flight ...

American sources there was nothing on the hard drives to indicate anything nefarious, just maybe practicing new landing patterns at different air strips around the southeast asia. >> and as i understand it, and nothing else, either, e-mails, lifestyle, bank accounts, life insurance, you name it. that would be expected. because on 9/11 one of the things including the messages in training the hijackers, they were supposed to avoid the limelight. they were supposed to be on the down low. this guy had videos on youtube. so it didn't fit sort of a traditional kind of airline terrorist. >> yeah. he ...

Minute. it was really extreme. it was during that period that i came into the cockpit. i initially hesitated. i didn't think i would be of assistance and might make things worse. i heard the co-pilot calling for help. i did enter. my priority was to remove the assailant there the controls. i attempted various techniques which over a period of one and a half minutes before the inspiration came to me eventually to gouge his eye. i had been aggressively pulling him. as i was pulling him upwards and rear wards, he was aggressively pulling the control column of the aircraft which had an enormous ef...

And moved across toward the captain and placed himself over the central pedestal and on the lap of the pilot. >> was he armed? >> sorry the pilot? >> no. not particularly. oh armed? no, sorry. he was not armed. however he believe had prepared to do what he was achieving. any how, he placed himself between the controls and the pilot. he grabbed the control column close to his chest. in the next few seconds the aircraft went into an extreme loss of control. officially we soared upwards very rapidly entered a significant stall regime. to recover from that, the co-pilot pushed the assailant forwar...

To your point. it's a two-hutted done push. somebody sudden she the mic on the control column or activate the emergency boat. >> radar. >> gps. anything. >> multiple systems all trying to say here i am, here i am. i am amazed that it is a big ocean, it is a big sky and if you are 35,000 feet doing 500 knots and something goes catastrophically wrong where that airplane could come down is a big ark. they are in the ark searching them. >> no one claimed responsibility f or any terror attacks at that