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Navigating. germanwings flight 9525 with 150 people on board went down in the snowy french alps where peaks are as high as 10,000 feet. what seemed like a routine flight from barcelona to dusseldorf suddenly turned deadly. the flight took off at 10:01 a.m. local time. flight tracking sites show the plane climbed to a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet before starting an unplanned descent, dropping to 11,400 feet over eight minutes. >> it seems to me it was still a controlled descent. >> around 52 minutes after takeoff, air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane. its last known altitude ...

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Noted, it could be terrorism or anything along those lines. no evidence of that at all, at least not yet. rene, thanks very much. there's deep shock and an outpouring of grief at the airport in barcelona, spain, where the flight originated. let's go there. cnn's carl penhall is on the scene for us. what's it like over there, carl? >> reporter: well, wolf in the course of the afternoon, we've seen scores of family members and relatives coming to the crisis center that's been set up at barcelona airport terminal 2. many of them have been arm in arm with other relatives, many of them weeping as t...

Recovered. we're back with deborah hersman, the former ntsb chair, now president and ceo of the national safety council. deborah in december a lufthansa dropped 4,000 feet in one moment after the autopilot lowered the jet's nose. how closely should investigators be looking at the autopilot system on all of these airbus planes? >> you know, i think they'll be looking at all past events to try to identify any similarities. in this event, at least with respect to the loss of altitude is very difficult. they really want to understand what caused this aircraft to descend and the way it did, whether...

Tv stations in australia. they're quoting the australian foreign minister that australians were on the flight also that turks may have been on the flight. certainly a very koss mowcosmopolitan list of passengers. >> we're hearing from officials in washington they're checking to see if any americans were on the plane also. karl penhaul, thank you so much. deborah hersman, she chaired the national transportation safety board, now president of the national safety council. deborah deborah, thank you for joining us. even though the searchers are having great difficulty accessing this crash site, th...