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Air traffic control tried to reach the cockpit 11 times. we know that military got involved tried to contact them three times. why would that will have happened? what role would these agencies have played there? >> well they're responsible for separating traffic. they need to know where it is. of course on their radar screens, they see the pilot and the plane are not responding. they would have seen on the radar tracings that its altitude its flight level was decreasing. they have a job to do too. they have to keep planes apart from each other. here was this aircraft doing something that they ...

But that pilot could not get back in. the official says the cockpit voice recorder indicates quoting, "the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and then he hits the door stronger and no answer. there is never an answer." he goes onto say, quoting "you can hear he's trying to smash the door down." so at this point there are two possibilities. the pilot inside the cockpit was either incapacitated though there's no sound of distress, or he deliberately kept the other pilot out. the cockpit door automatically locks. in the united states you must have two people in the cockpit. so if a pilot...

But that pilot could not get back in. the official says the cockpit voice recorder indicates quoting, "the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and then he hits the door stronger and no answer. there is never an answer." he goes onto say, quoting "you can hear he's trying to smash the door down." so at this point there are two possibilities. the pilot inside the cockpit was either incapacitated though there's no sound of distress, or he deliberately kept the other pilot out. the cockpit door automatically locks. in the united states you must have two people in the cockpit. so if a pilot...

Pilot out. the cockpit door automatically locks. in the united states you must have two people in the cockpit. so if a pilot leaves, a flight attendant is require today go in. it's unclear what the rules are in germany, but this would explain why during the ten-minute descent there is no mayday or any conversation at the ground. take a look at the cockpit of the a320. there's no center yoke or control column. instead airbus uses a side stick controller. so it would be more difficult for a potentially incapacitated pilot to slump over the controls pushing the plane down. now look at the flight ...

Or up it tells back there, it has a sensor that tells you where your elevator went. it also confirm that the movements the pilot made were carried out by the aircraft. >> right. will it be able to tell us the crucial thing. say the pilot started the decan she not descent, it will say whether the pilot kept going. >> this is one of the things that's interesting. it's a different philosophy. you're always on auto-pilot because you're flying a computer. when you're controlling the airplane and asking the computer to do something and it decides how to do it. there's way to cut those off and go to ...