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The actual complete piece is a very sharp-ended piece, and that sharp end is missing. so we already know from that piece of information alone, that the impact was on the rear end of the popularflaperon. the people in toulouse who are looking at this the french in particular who have had a lot of experience looking at the wreckage from air france flight 447, that went down in the atlantic they're very good looking at the tale tell signs. there's no signs on this particular piece of there having been a fire. there's no sign of that here. so i think this is -- this single piece, although it's not...

Welcome back. the crash of the germanwings flight has re-ignited the debate about control. there's been technology developed that would let authorities on the ground intervene the there was a crisis in the air. boeing has a patent and google has conducted a test flight. why isn't it being used? tom foreman has the answer. >> reporter: boeing has a patent google has a test flight of one of these planes big tech names all over the world are looking at this idea of airplanes that can be flown remotely from the ground in the belief that this might make them impervious from terrorist attack, from c...

There's already been action taken. there's already been safety measures taken. not only the airlines have taken measures to say we do need two people in that cockpit now as a mitigation but the regulatory authority themselves they totally skipped right over this part of figuring out what happened and then applying the regulation which is incredibly time consuming. flight 447, we're still waiting on things to respond to that accident. but this is different. this is very different. i think there's a shift in the culture. i think partly it's because of all the exposure the airlines and the indust...

What we're dealing with here. remind us of what the facts were. >> well egyptair 990, michael, we had a relief co-pilot an individual who was not going to be promoted to captain. there were a bunch of personal issues surrounding his conduct in the united states and in egypt, and he took off, was a flight from l.a. they remanled overnight at jfk, then there was a jfk to egypt flight. when they took off somewhere around nantucket, he as a relief pilot went in and took the controls. the captain left the flight cockpit, left. he then took control of the plane, said i put myself in god's hands, wha...

I don't think there's any place i really would rather be. welcome back. the terror attacks on 9/11 sparked increased security measures on airplanes to keep the bad guys out of the cockpit and ironically those same protections made it possible for the co-pilot of the germanwings flight to go on a deadly path of destruction. the co-pilot deliberate licaried out the disaster after locking the steel reinforced door to the cockpit. joining me now is cnn national security analyst and former assistant secretary for homeland