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>> translator: forced to come to the conclusion that the flight was deliberately crashed. >> reporter: the cockpit voice recorder capturing it all. investigators say as the plane hits cruising altitude, the captain asks lubitz to take control, stepping out of the cockpit presumably to use the restroom. the 27-year-old co-pilot switches the plane into autopilot setting off the nearly ten-minute long deadly descent. the pilot frantically knocking on the door pleading to be let back in the cockpit but there's no response. amidst the sound of screaming passengers, andreas lubitz is heard breathing...

And age seems to be a factor too. i saw something about where roughly a third of the lone survivor incidents that somebody studied had been children. so i think there it's the weight of the body as one is thrown from the wreckage or when the impact occurs when the plane hits, that a child's body is lighter. so the impact may be less. i think, too, could be in the case of that age, the flexibility of the developing bones, the muscular structure and so forth somehow makes it easier for a child. oftentimes when an infant falls from a window or building from a couple of stories up and sometimes th...

As it sits. >> got you. supposedly according to local reports parts of the tale have been identified and found and an oil slick by where parts of the tail were found. >> if it's an oil slick and continuing to just appear and maintain itself then they could be close to the area where the main part of the plane hits. there are wrecks we dive from world war ii that are oil is still seeping out of and leaving a slick. i was on one this summer off of north carolina. >> in the tail is where you expect to find them in the tail section. >> yesterday you were talking about the black suitcase that was f...

You might look on it for that. the way a plane hit if a plane ran out of fuel, as they believe this one did, because this is about the end of the fuel supply, the way the plane hits and spins down and one engine runs out of fuel before the other so it hits wing-down and could snap off a wing. it doesn't tell you anything poornt. have you to trace it it back, figure out where the main wreckage is, hopefully get the black boxes. that would be a major breakthrough. >> if the search goes past 30 days, and that's the life of the black box, the pinger on the black box, how will the loss of the dayli...

Life rafts are strictly salt water activated ones that will only -- >> they actually are in life rafts. >> they are in the life rafts. now, there are some that are portable sometimes in the overhead bins you can remove and in another situation. but we're told in training that if you have to do a crash landing on the ground, it's a survivable situation and you have an elt available to you, which when the slide deployed you'd have that because they're slide rafts, you'd grab that elt and urinate on it. >> in order to get the salt to go off and signal go off. >> exactly. vhf emergency frequency a...