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The plane. its last known altitude 6,000 feet. then flight 9525 disappeared from radar. >> translator: a terrible very sad day for germanwings and the whole louvre thauz saturdayust thauz thaunz saturday family. >> reporter: a government official said the plane was, quote obliterated. human remains strewn meters. french authorities say the pilot did not send a distress call or signal that there was trouble. it was air traffic control that declared an emergency because they couldn't reach the pilots by radio. leaving many unanswered questions. >> normally, even if you're on an oxygen mask in a ...

Flight number by the way. the flight number is 4u9525. and we're looking at reports of an sos signal that was sent in from pretty high altitude. analysts now saying, according to bill neely, that something catastrophic must have happened on the plane. i don't want you to surmise, john cox, but from what you know about the aircraft its history, and flying in that area what comes to mind in terms of the questions you would have at this point? >> well, i think a couple of things are important. if the reports of the distress indication from the airplane are, in fact utilizing the transponder, whic...

>> yeah. there was an incident many years ago which was conducting what's called an overshoot procedure and the systems overrided it and it ended up flying into the trees. what i want to say before we go down this route of engineering malfunctions is that this aircraft would have been at 32,000 feet or thereabouts. if there's any sort of malfunction in the system the pilot and the crew has a long time to start putting on emergency codes on the transponders 7700 that's the international recognized emergency code. they have a lot of time to start talking to air traffic, put out a more serious ma...

Into the transponder, which is the emergency code, they did not put in the hijacking code, they turned it off. so we have to infer there was human involvement in this and it has to be a hijacking or stolen aircraft. >> mike? >> i have to agree entirely. and for safety's sake, we have to assume that going forward if someone has this airplane, that's a real stretch, and want to do something with it, sometime in the next 12 months they might do something with it, we need to look into those options. but i have to agree with the lawyer. it doesn't look good, and we can make excuses, but there is to...

Last transition to air traf rfi control. >> that is a key point. the scott brenner who is a former faa official was at the faa on 9\11 is the one who broke this here and others have questioned it. we questioned it that very night, mike, because they were saying, the transponder was -- tracked the plane prior to that and it doesn't match up. in other words, the ascertainable aid ascertain able radar data doesn't support that assertion. what we do know is that a destination that was west and not in the plane's original journey, was programmed in, prior to when they signed off from air traffic co...