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I'm going to remind you of a terrible plane crash that happened back in march when 150 people died after a perfectly good airplane slammed into the ground in the french alps. no mechanical problem, no terrorism either. just one deeply disturbed co-pilot. one who decided that that was the day to commit suicide and kill, murder, in fact, everyone else on board that aircraft. germanwings flight 9525, today we're learning more about what happened in the cook pit on a different flight. earlier that same fateful day. it comes from an interim report by the french officials who are picking apart the f...

Actually very small portion of the overall budget. but is that a pressure here miles? cut rate airlines does that reduce the quality of pilots as a result? >> well you have to look at it from the perspective of an airline executive. what can you cut? fuel prices are pretty difficult to deal with. the cost of an aircraft. the the the airplane itself. the fees the terminal space, the rental. you cut people. they've been for decades now since deregulation. les is fine with people paid on a different scale than he is because they got hired later. you can't keep going after what is after all, the m...

People out but there's only one boat. so we all got to take turns and stuff. >> reporter: firefighters worked through the night hauling residents to safety as the water swept through the city nearly submerging vehicles and making roads impossible. >> the water was at waist level about an hour ago. >> reporter: by morning, many residents still dealing with several feet of standing water and submerged cars and it's not over. the national weather service issued warnings for even more flooding. alexandra field, cnn. overseas investigators today revealed the first information from flight 9525's n...

Time. that used to be enough to go straight from embry riddle to a commercial airline but after flight 3407 crashed in 2009 that transition became much harder. pilot error played a major role in that crash in buffalo and many of the families of the 49 people on board have pushed for some of the changes we're seeing today. including raising the minimum requirement of flight hours to 1500. but there are fears some of these requirements may be weakened in order to meet the demand for pilots. >> there's tremendous pressure on the faa to relax some of the rules and requirements so they can get more...

Correspondent rene marsh has been looking at. what have you found? >> well germanwings flight 9525's co-pilot andreas lubitz set the plane on a deadly collision course the moment his captain left the cockpit for a bathroom break. the captain told lubitz he didn't have time to go before takeoff. some have said a prime example of the enormous pressure some budget airlines pilots are under to stay on tight landing and takeoff schedules. the crash now fueling a debate about whether budget carriers are safe to fly. until the germanwings deadly crash, the low cost carrier had a spotless safety recor...