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Preliminary information but you're looking at fair chunk of this aircraft to put it in those terms. just by virtue there was a lot of recovery of the bodies in one area it seems indicates something about the way the airplane broke apart and perhaps could have impacted intact, perhaps at the rate that it was falling from the sky, it's possible that there are pieces of it that came off and other parts so the remaining passengers may be found elsewhere. but it does say something to the effect of this planned view, it would be better if there was a planned view of the entire exit site, but at this...

We have learned that on other accidents, more generally aviation that high poxy can play a role, where the loss of oxygen has a slow leak and our brain does not function without oxygen very well as it loses pressure. if there was an abnormality they were attempting to rectify through a checklist, their decision process may have been off and flying the airplane may not have become a priority because they weren't thinking clearly so these are all speculative possibilities. >> mechanics is not ruled out as well. les avant, thank you for being here. donald trump losing ground in some polls in th...

The friend was devastated at the shock of the loss. i look at people standing around here. tears in their eyes. a real sense of sadness around us right now. >> you can't help but absorb it, i'm sure. nic robertson, arwa damon, appreciate it so much. thank you. let's bring in cnn aviation analyst les avant. i want to bring up the information released by the flight and the altitude and speed changes and put up the first chart here. this is speed. climbed from 272 knots to roughly 466 in miles per hour. for 20 minutes. at 6:11, it just drops there. then no data tracked after 6:13. now for altit...

Here in the united states, you've got that, german and french officials, and you've got russia playing a part in this investigation. >> well, this is not according to protocol, the international aviation association, so the egyptians will be the one that by protocol are in charge of this investigation. who they want to include as the other parties and experts, and they'll need experts, just like the ntsb here in the states, they'll need experts. they'll need airbus, the engine manufacturer, consortium of engine manufacturers, that includes, actually, folks here from the states. so all of these...

Andreas lubitz practiced the move he would use hours later to bring down the next plane he was going to fly out. he practiced it on the outbound flight from dusseldorf to barcelona. look at this from the flight data recorder. the blue line on your screen is the altitude that flight actually maintained. but the red line is shocking. it's how many times lubitz changed the autopilot altitude controller on that earlier flight. he didn't actually take that earlier plane down. he just fidsled with the controls, checking things out. on the next flight he made the same adjustment and carried the thing...