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Need to see exactly what the pilot is doing. i want to see what the pilot is looking at and commenting on and see what movements or switches they may be manipulating but i don't necessarily need to see the pilot himself or herself in the cockpit. >> but the fact is that if he is incapacitated, if they pass out, then you don't know what they're seeing. but you certainly don't know they weren't seeing anything. >> well you have to be careful with that because if they're passed out, they're not going to see anything, not making any movements, and they're not talking amongst themselves so there ar...

rapid eight-minute descent before crashing into the remote area of the french alps. right now no word on the cause. the german interior minister is saying terrorism is considered unlikely. nbc's katy tur is in germany where families are the passengers are grieving the loss of their loved ones and nbc's reporter is near the crash site in france. what's the very latest? >> reporter: well jose i'm here at the airfield where we've seen since the crack of dawn six helicopters going back and forth from the site of the crash, dropping rescuers there because there are only two ways to get to...

it's an accident. there's nothing more that we can say right now. everything else would be speculation. the question tonight -- why did the plain suddenly descend? why didn't the pilot send out a distress signal? was there a problem with the plane? again, officials say they may not be able to recover any bodies until sunrise. we've got this story covered from all angles. we'll go overseas and also talk to aviation experts here at home but we start with nbc's tom costello. tom, what are investigators looking at right now? >> well it's really a confusing and perplexing problem here b...

That. >> zach roth continues to follow the story. thank you very much. we'll be keeping a very watchful eye on the news conference set to happen at 3:00 this afternoon here in new york city. search teams off the indonesian coast recovered three more bodies today. that brings the total to 37 now as they search for the wreckage -- attempt to find the wreckage of air asia flight 8501. the director of operations said that five large objects have been detected on the sea floor and one of those objects is believed to be the fuselage. but divers are facing zero visibility because strong currents ar...

How -- again there's so much information we don't have. but in a situation like this we have five people on a small plane. how is it one of them is able to walk away like this? what could have happened that would have allowed this girl to be the sole survivor >>well i don't want to be gruesome about it, but if you happen to be in the right place in the aircraft a chunk that survive survives. maybe she was strapped in well and she managed to get out of this where as everyone else was in a bad spot and, you know, hit something that killed them instantly. she's a blessed child. >> blessed indeed ...