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That co-pilot of the doomed germanwings flight committed mass murder. investigators now believe andreas lubitz repeatedly practiced putting the plane into a deadly descent on the flight right before the one that left all 150 people on board dead. the information comes from a preliminary report by the b.e.a. the french agency investigating the march 24th crash. it put forth this graph to explain how lubitz rehearsed. note the red at zero level there. so this is exactly how long and how often lubitz according to this report set the plane to drop toward 100 feet. the same auto pilot setting fligh...

10:40 a.m. investigators hear the right wing scrape a mountaintop and screams from the 149 on board. lubitz apparently stays silent. 47 the bea the french investigating authority come out and said it is displaced any sort of investigation from the investigationice recorder could have been released like this. however, they did not question the quotes that came out are, in fact that chris. >> at this point the priority has to be in understanding what was going on the andreas lubitzas missed if any opportunity were there to have indeed have it prevented. we are learning more details about this co...

Investigation itself. so i heard what rene said. everybody's ready to help but the french are in charge of the investigation. but there will be pressure from outside sources on french investigators to hurry along won't there be? might there be? >> there always is pressure. the french the bea, the bureau they are enormously experienced. just to pause as they are having a moment of silence. pressure but the bureau is extremely

Fragments of fuselage, any part of metal, part of the plane, any metal that you can forensically examine that will show which way it was ripped, where the tears are, what holes there were, which direction they were. we know from lockerbie and from twa, we know from all these other incidents where planes have been brought out of the sky by explosives of some sort of another, they can tell, they are looking for residues, all sorts of things that can only be done in the most extreme circumstances of forensic laboratory. that's why getting there, seeing what there is, taking it away is so crucial....

Desperate search, because these flight data recorders only have batteries that last 30 days. might there be different thinking now that that really isn't enough time? >> look, that's a very good point, and after the tragic loss of air france 447 in 2009, the french crash investigator, the bea, they made several recommendations, and those recommendations were that black box data, some black box data should be streamed in real time back to the airlines base. they also suggested that black boxes be ejected on impact in an accident, that they should float, and that they should have a 90-day beacon...