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Really what happened, and this is not confirmed yet, if this is really what happened, then that voice recording black box will be more important than the flight data recording. that will mean this is not a technical issue, but something that is more human. >> claudeio lavanga at the crash site, thank you. the news reported by "the new york times" just a few moments ago tonight, that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit on that fateful airbus 320 flight from barcelona, to dusseldorf. evidence from a cockpit voice recorder said one pilot left the cockpit and was unable to get back in....

>> former ntsb board member kitty higgins, thank you for joining us. joining us from the crash site is nbc news reporter claudio lavanga. claudeio, what is the latest from the site? >> reporter: well, it is 1:00 in the morning here, so we don't have any way to corroborate and confirm those reports. those just came out in "the new york times." we have not seen that before. all we heard of this afternoon, about a few hours ago, which was official, which is the aviation authority saying they were hearing the voices of the pilot, but they want to figure out what they were exactly saying. now, this...

Hits the door stronger. and there is never an answer. he said you can hear he is trying to smash the door down. the airbus a320 crashed about an hour after takeoff yesterday morning on a flight from barcelona, spain, to dusseldorf germany, carrying 144 passengers, and 6 crew members. today we learned three of those passengers were americans. there were no survivors. joining me now by phone, former ntsb board memberer katy higgins. katy, this just was published a few moments ago and we're all just shaking our head at the horror of this. your response? >> yeah chris, exactly. it compounds what i...

>> the egypt air flight is probably the most famous example of a crash where the conclusion of an investigation, the pilot had taken the plane down as an act of murder or suicide. that finding has been contested by the egyptian authorities. other investigators have found that to be the case. of course, here, can we talk for a moment about the protocols here? there's a lot to kind of unpack. first is, cockpit doors after 9/11 were reinforced, right? there was a change to policy -- >> they're reinforced, and locked from the inside. >> they're looked from the inside. there is no way to get into t...