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They can monitor and make sure that i am safe to fly. >> chris jansing? >> michael, are there any restrictions that you know of of the kind of medications that a pilot can take and if for example, he was diagnosed with a clinical depression could he be on antidepressants and still fly? i'm just trying to figure out what the medical background might be and what they might be looking at. >> right. basically up to five years ago you were not allowed, at least in the united states to take any antidepressants. they used to refer to prozac pilots. that comes out of the mythology of pilots who used t...

Airplane and the pilot outside. i hope -- we again, are going into a bad area. if we have an airbus guy here on the panel, i want him to respond to this thing about the law you're in and whether or not you can attack just bump it or accidentally move the stick and have it just and all those other things. remember the only thing that changed was altitude all the way down to the ground. >> david, that was your point earlier. to not have any deviation from the flight path other than the descent. >> if it was an accidental bump it wouldn't have maintained. you can look exactly. it was 26 degrees. ...

Back with our coverage of the deliberate downing of germanwings flight 9525. we go back to the staging area near the site of the crash in france with nbc's claudio lavanga. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well we've just heard that the german investigators are looking into what really drove this young man, a 28-year-old, who always had dreams of flying. he did establish that dream. to smash that plane against a mountain with 149 other people on board. they're looking at potentially family motives or debt problems. they're looking for any potential clues that can tell us that can reveal what...

The fort hood massacre and the botched times square car bombing. today in yemen then tens of thousands of demonstrators president go on trial for crimes against his own people. protesters have been trying to get rid of him for many months now. he just got back from saudi arabia where he was said to be getting medical treatment after his attack on compound in june. the president was among america's closest allies against al qaeda. the president is calling for a peaceful transfer of power. also today, tribal leaders there claim they shot down a yemeni warplane and captured its pilot outside of c...