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Area of digne les bains. it was going from barcelona in spain to dusseldorf in germany. i suppose, you know you could say it's reasonable to expect that a lot of the passengers onboard would be german. but we simply don't know. a lot of unknowables at the moment. as french president francois hollande said a tragedy for france coming relatively soon after the "charlie hebdo" events in paris. it is a lot for the french to deal with. and he is saying no survivors are expected on that plane. >> john cox, does it sound to you from all of the reports we've been getting as if this plane came down and...

Flight number by the way. the flight number is 4u9525. and we're looking at reports of an sos signal that was sent in from pretty high altitude. analysts now saying, according to bill neely, that something catastrophic must have happened on the plane. i don't want you to surmise, john cox, but from what you know about the aircraft its history, and flying in that area what comes to mind in terms of the questions you would have at this point? >> well, i think a couple of things are important. if the reports of the distress indication from the airplane are, in fact utilizing the transponder, whic...

To go to a much more computer assisted flying. and in fact they don't have just one computer they have multiple computers backing up and ensuring that the plane maintains the right flight envelope that it is stable that it is flying at the prescribed altitude, and really in the proper parameters. the airbus system does not allow for the pilot to deviate dramatically, to deviate to the point where the plane might be in jeopardy. that is something that old school pilots frankly, they're not too keen on. they like that flexibility for the pilot to be able to make a decision if necessary to save t...

Investigators will look at very very closely. >> you saw it's unusual. can you think of cases in which that has happened and what has been the cause? >> the case where's you see airplanes at high altitude that are lost you can look at the air france airplane, you can look at a couple others you know in the cases of a loss of control event, but they're very rare. so these are -- these are things that the investigators are going to look at really carefully and understand what's happening. the flight data recorder, right now if in fact it's true that there are not any survivors in this tragedy, t...