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Germany germany. >> i want to bring in an aviation psychologist from london, an experienced pilot also. professor, thanks for joining us. we learned shocking news that lufthansa airlines knew about this severe depression episode that the pilot had in 2009. do you think that the airline should have allowed eded him to fly? >> well obviously there are different kinds of depression and certainly severe depression is a disqualifying condition for most people. they would not be able to become airline pilot physicians if there is a significant history. of course it can develop in the lifetime of som...

Information very rapidly it seems they may choose to release it. of course to have family considerations if there's something very graphic that would upset the families i would hope they would consider that before they release it. >> miles, what's your take? if this video exists, shufdould the authorities release it?. >> reporter: i'm never going to be on record saying they shouldn't release information in these cases jake. this is of tremendous global importance to everyone frankly, to know as much as about this as possible, if nothing else, we can at least say that the aircraft aircraft itse...

For the act he carried out is on its own unlikely. most people who have been depressed don't necessarily try to end their life and ending the life of other people is most unusual. >> of course millions of people worldwide deal with depression and are able to go about their lives and be professionals. european law every year provides pilots with a questionnaire in which the pilots are asked about meantate health including psychological, psychiatric problems. given his background should lufthansa have known that maybe they needed to keep an eye on him more aggressively than this annual self-repo...

Experiments involving live worms, of all things, which survived. you just don't know how these things are going to play out in an impact like that. you know where that cell phone was, was it inside a bag in? it was being used of course. it's hard to realize why that would happen. but i'd like to underscore it's good for the families to buttress their lawsuits and ultimate claims they might get and a reminder how useful it would be to investigators if there was a camera in the cockpit recording what was going on there. >> if this video does exist charlie do you think it should be released to th...

Reporting it a representable course. thank you, rene. let's go to charlie pereira with the national transportation safety board, also with us miles o'brien. charlie, the cell phone individual wroe of the crash that supposedly exists you've heard the talk the heavy shake toward the end, the banging bit pilot. what could these things tell us about what happened beyond what we already know? >> well, we have the cockpit voice recorder which gives us the environment as heard from within the cockpit. if we have other video recorders in the cabin, that willhopefully give us that environment as well f...