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There's already been action taken. there's already been safety measures taken. not only the airlines have taken measures to say we do need two people in that cockpit now as a mitigation but the regulatory authority themselves they totally skipped right over this part of figuring out what happened and then applying the regulation which is incredibly time consuming. flight 447, we're still waiting on things to respond to that accident. but this is different. this is very different. i think there's a shift in the culture. i think partly it's because of all the exposure the airlines and the indust...

Been able to see how the hijackers took over the cockpit, how they killed the pilots how they tried to manipulate the controls. >> reporter: the top pilots union in america is staunchly against the idea. in a statement to cnn, it says cockpit video quote, is subject to misinterpretation and may, in fact lead investigators away from accurate conclusions. pilot union officials also say they're worried about a video leaking. they say voice data recorder clips have been made public in past cases, especially overseas and no pilot wants their final moments to be posted all over the internet. brian t...

International space station. they're used to watch some train operators, taxi drivers, and bus drivers, including this one, caught looking at his phone, then crashing. cockpit video could even be live streamed back to controllers on the ground in real-time. although the expense of installing and streaming thousands of live cameras could be prohibitive. spencer says cockpit cameras could have provided key evidence in some of the most infamous disasters in aviation including 9/11. >> if we had had cameras in the cockpits 9/11 we would have been able to see how the hijackers took over the cockpit...

>> they have been taking bags of evidence out of his home. appeared they were taking part of a computer, also searching the home of his family. >> the reason we are able to know now that apparently the jet co-pilot deliberately flew the airplane into the mountains and it was totally something beyond suicide because this guy's going to probably go down as one of the worse plmass murderers in german history. yesterday morning very early in the day "the new york times" published some of the findings of what they found on that voice recorder. you could hear all of these sounds on there. well, inte...

Unclear at this point in time. it's a very interesting topic. it is being talked a lot about here in germany and internationally as well. there were indeed several crews on the day that this happened who said they didn't want to fly airplanes. apparently all of those crews were crews of a320 aircraft. now, the way that germanwings puts it they say that these people were crew members who most probably knew the pilots who were killed in this incident. we don't know the identities of the pilots that were killed yet. but they say it was just that these pilots felt unfit to fly because of the emoti...