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38,000 feet to 96 feet. the plane hit the mountains at 6,000. and the control the co-pilot activated requires several different turns and could not be programmed accidentally. when the cockpit doors lock, there is a keypad that would allow a pilot to get in using an emergency number. there is no indication the captain of the germanwings flight punched in that emergency code but even if he had it can be overridden by the pilot inside the cockpit. for now it's all about motive, which is why investigators have now pulled out bags and boxes of potential evidence from his apartment and his parent's...

To the locked position? >> exactly. yes. exactly. after that time whether it be a 15-minute lockout, that resets the system and then potentially the captain could reenter the emergency code. which sets off a continuous buzzer in the cockpit. and then all the co-pilot would have had to do is to take that switch back to the locked position again. >> it's interesting, david soucie. so essentially, the co-pilot would have been getting warning that the pilot was entering the code and trying to get in and i assume that would already be known to authorities because the sound of that alarm would be pi...

It's a time switch but nobody will get into the cockpit. >> we don't yet know whether the pilot who was locked outside actually tried to enter in the emergency code that would have granted him access but it almost doesn't matter because the co-pilot who was at the controls could have just toggled it down to the locked position and that would have overridden any attempts from the outside to get in correct? >> that is correct. he can override it. like i said it's a timed switch. 57 5 to 20 minutes. locks everybody out. each time it resets and you reenter the emergency code all the co-pilot would...

Times," hear the sound of someone trying to break down the door to the cockpit. of course the doors are armored. it's tell to do that. there's also a code which in an emergency a pilot can use to get back into the cockpit, entering an emergency code. it can be overridden if there's someone in the cockpit that pushes the mississippi and overrides the access to the cockpit. so some of this clears up some the mystery but add more elements of mystery. now i should say that one thing that happened in the past hour, the marseilles prosecutor has announced that he will hold a news conference at 12:...

Attendant go into the cockpit as many airlines do? and thirdly, post mh-370, there was this view that a pilot should never be alone in the cockpit for the simple reason either they could have a heart attack or drop dead, or b, for the nefarious option. so as it's been portrayed so far, you have a situation where there's a pilot out of the cockpit and for whatever reason, he can't use the emergency code to get back in again, and the pilot inside has locked him out. >> just quickly, if they do get their hands on the flight data recorder, what does that change? we know one of the pilots was presu...