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Moments ago speaking in germany. new details are coming in by the minute on the crash of germanwings flight 95. the most stunning development in the past couple of minutes. lufthansa says they do not have protocols in place that would prevent a pilot from being alone in the cockpit, and the ceo added just moments ago the airline does not intend to review that procedure in light of this incident. let me bring in msnbc aviation analyst john cox, faa licensed commercial pilot and managing editor for "airline weekly" seth kaplan. how surprised are you seth about this development of the ceo of luft...

Jose and germanwings has followed all the same procedures as its parent company lufthansa. it is a low-cost offshoot of lufthansa, same as delta song united ten in the u.s. just as safe as their parents. germanwings growing very rapidly. lufthansa looking to cut costs and compete more effectively against some of the budget carriers is growing its own budget carrier and letting germanwings taking over some of the routes that lufthansa itself would have flown in the past. the low cost again, really has nothing to do with safety. it has to do with packing the seats more closely together on the pl...

Much. if you're just joining us our breaking news coverage it has been a morning of stunning developments surrounding the germanwings flight the crash into the french alps. we now know the crash was deliberate. we now have chilling details about the final moments that have doomed flight and what happened just before all 150 people on board were killed. the french prosecutor says the co-pilot wanted to quote, destroy the plane, but says there is no indication it was a terror attack. germanwings parent company lufthansa held a news conference moments ago and shared more new details about the co-...

>> is it true that passengers noticed some irregularities or suspicious moments during the flight down on germanwings? >> no. i don't know anything about that. >> what is the liability situations after this accident? >> yesterday i was dusseldorf and barcelona, and i promised financial aid right away. and we will support the families as much as we can and, of course, there are international

To be in the cockpit with the pilot once the second pilot or one of the pilots goes and takes a bathroom break to get a cup of coffee. in the u.s. talking about this all day, you have to have a flight attendant in there to make sure, a, there's not a medical event, "b to make sure that the second pilot can get back, or c, when they do come back if there's not a gun to their head. >> he says that's not the case. it's a an airline-to-airline thing, not a country thing. when i asked if he reconsider that safety procedure in the future he said no which is quite surprising. i think the question now...