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Instead of setting in 21,000 he again set into motion the setting of 100 feet. so it was either a rehearsal or perhaps he was, in fact was going to try to crash that earlier flight and lost his nerve. unclear. in either case the pilot came back and was unaware apparently of any of these changes that were taking place in the cockpit, wolf. >> very disturbing. peter, when he selected that altitude to go down to 100 feet shouldn't that have gotten the attention of air traffic controllers? >> well it wouldn't have because he was in a descent, an ordered descent, so unless he went below the ordered...

The pilot's mental health the co-pilot's mental health and background what kind of drugs he was taking. they don't think there's going to be change in the major parameters of the crash. what we know about the crash now is what apparently happened. but they do want to have all the background information and then they are going to come up with a set of recommendations about what should be done two pilot rule in the cockpit, all sorts of other -- change in the locking mechanism, for example or other kinds of things that might be done to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, wolf. >> an...

International correspondent jim bittermann joining us from paris and cnn aviation analyst peter goels joining us from dallas. jim, walk us through exactly what the co-pilot did on that earlier flight how investigators now came to the conclusioning that it was a rehearsal for what eventually wound up doing. >> right. exactly. basically the earlier flight was the outbound flight from dusseldorf to barcelona and during that flight at one point, the pilot left the cockpit leaving the co-pilot lubitz in charge and he dialed into the setting on the autopilot, he dialed in the lowest setting, 100 fee...

Have worried his dream to become a long haul pilot was doomed. >> carline petit joins us now from seattle, former ntsb mnging director peter goels joins us from washington. let me start with you, peter, this revolution that this man andreas lubitz had been suicidal. we don't know how recently. it seems much of it was well in the past. we know that mental health issues are something that a lot of people deal with, a lot o r treatable, a lot of them lead functional, full, thorough healthy lyes when they are treated. but when you are dealing with being a commercial airline pilot, peter, what need...

Up again this morning. we've heard nothing to the contrary. we normally get word from the search coordinating body in the next hour or two and we'll probably have more idea of that aerial and sea search then, but at this stage, that search continues. but as we've reported, six weeks, we're into the sixth week now. it seems extraordinary they've found absolutely nothing out there, as vast as the ocean is, no sign of malaysian flight 370. wolf? >> michael holmes reporting from perth. thank you. let's bring in our panel, aviation correspondent rene marsh, peter goels, and tom fuentes. peter, this...