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Some of those answers are starting to come from the plane s cockpit voice recorder. this is the strongest clue investigators have in their hands. the exterior of germanwings flight 9525 s cockpit voice recorder looks damaged but french authorities revealed today they have had some success. we are very glad that the first flight recorder has been retrieved yesterday and the french authority confirmed just a few hours ago that one of the audio streams is readable. reporter: the cockpit voice recorder captured audio up to the moment of impact. it will provide critical information like whether the pilots were talking in the minutes leading up to the crash. what were they saying and what else was happening in the cockpit. they re prepared to work with whatever they ve got to get the information. it s more than just voice. they can hear what switches are being thrown and what buttons are being pushed. they can tell a lot about what s going on in the cockpit from ....
Director of safety for the coalition of airline pilot associations. miles, let me start with you. you saw tom s demonstration there. does this fit into any of those theories? this sort of falls somewhere in the middle there. it was this gradual ten-minute decline but fairly consistent decline. yeah. it s kind of an outlier based on what we just heard. in the first two cases that he spoke of swiss air and air alaska the crews had long communications with air traffic control talking about their problems troubleshooting. in both cases, the ultimate investigation was that they spent a little too much time troubleshooting, both of them should have gotten on the ground faster. in any case there was a lot of communication. in the case of helios there was subtle decompression. the crew became incapacitated and it flew its flight on auto pilot pretty much as they had programmed it in. there were fighter jets which came beside it and they were able to determine that was the cause. the crew was ....
Afghanistan when bergdahl vanished. the world lead. still so much wreckage from a crash that killed 150 people but as recovery teams collect shreds of debris slung across the alps investigators now have an audio file from inside the cockpit. what if anything did the pilots say that could help officials decipher just why this plane went down? and families of the victims still trying to deal with the staggering loss. so many futures cut short, including that of three americans. so who were they and who did they leave behind? welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake today. major stories breaking this afternoon. we are following new developments on that doomed jet that went down over the french alps but we begin today with breaking news in our national lead. just minutes ago, the army announced that bowe bergdahl the army soldier who spent five years in taliban captivity, will now face charges of desertion. ....
A real privacy that they want to maintain. but i was able to talk to a relative and they released a statement telling us our entire family is deeply saddened by the losses of yvonne and emily selke, two wonderful caring amazing people who meant so much to so many. this remote crash site high in the french alps has now become an epicenter of international grief. today, we are learning more about the three americans, two from virginia who lost their lives here. emily selke and her mother yvonne who was a 22-year veteran of the government contracting company booze allen hamilton. emily was an alumni of a sorority. on its facebook page the chapter posted as a person and friend emily always put others before herself and cared deeply for all those in her life. we can also confirm that a third u.s. citizen was on board the flight but are not releasing the name at this time out of respect for the family. ....
Flight. the helios flight. this went down after the crew was overcome and they had a case of dramatic decompression. they basically ran out of oxygen and everyone passed out on board according to the investigators. what happened in that case the plane flew for quite some time on auto pilot. in the end there was a heroic effort by one flight attendant who roused long enough to try to fly the plane but really couldn t do anything with it. the end result was that last 15 minutes, look at that pattern. it s quite different. in this case the pattern is the plane basically running out of fuel still on auto pilot drifting down and crashing too, with all lives lost. you can see three different flights, all with the same result in the end, a terrible terrible crash. but very different patterns as to how it occurred. tom foreman, fascinating history right there. i appreciate it. want to bring in our panel of experts to discuss these theories. aviation analyst miles o brien is with us. john gad ....