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Dramatic flames from akron. the small company, a company plane, slamming into an apartment building. woio reporting the pilot, co-pilot and seven passengers on board died. cnn's boris sanchez has more. good morning. >> good morning. in the past hour the ceo confirmed with a cnn affiliate that all nine people on board were killed. we're still working to identify those that were on board. we know at least seven were employees of heb enterprises. as you mentioned, the pilot and co-pilot also dead. it's a property management business based in boca raton, florida. they put out a statement earlier t...

Official or investigator makes an assessment they're trying to eliminate the possibilities, not come to a conclusion. so that assessment was probably based on more than just satellite information. it was probably information that may have been found otat the pilot's house. remember the one pilot had a simulator in his house. there was probably some similar lair tee in that programming. obviously they don't believe it was a physical problem with the airplane. but it was some human factor that changed the course of that airplane. but they can't come to the conclusion it was terrorism. >> we'll t...

>> reporter: well a so-called green light has been given by these biker gangs, according to police hits they say, threats towards law enforcement lives, anyone in uniform saying these are credible threats. not so much concerned about the safety's public as much as they are concerned about law enforcement officials. however, a spokesman with the waco police department tells me they are ready for whatever happens next and you see local law enforcement and others from state agencies and federal agencies out here in full force. jake? >> nick valencia thank you. coming up a nightmare scenario for...

Moments ago speaking in germany. new details are coming in by the minute on the crash of germanwings flight 95. the most stunning development in the past couple of minutes. lufthansa says they do not have protocols in place that would prevent a pilot from being alone in the cockpit, and the ceo added just moments ago the airline does not intend to review that procedure in light of this incident. let me bring in msnbc aviation analyst john cox, faa licensed commercial pilot and managing editor for "airline weekly" seth kaplan. how surprised are you seth about this development of the ceo of luft...

Security protocols are going to be reviewed very very carefully, and if there are recommendations made to the regulators and to the security agencies they may very well be mandated. >> take me because one of the other things in the headlines that we got out of this press conference is that the co-pilot had taken a leave for some reason of his training six years ago and then he resumed that training and since that time the ceo and others at lufthansa say they saw no red flags. is it unusual? would it have been something that could have created doubt in the 40s that if a pilot in training takes ...