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What the license status of the pilot was? i understand there's something called the air transport pilot license, and that you have to have a certain number of hours before this is unfrozen. can you tell us what his tell us what his status was and then the second question, was the pilot allowed to leave the cockpit? at this point in the flight was there anything he did that he shouldn't have at this point of the flight? >> thank you. >> lufthansa and germanwings and our other subsidiaries, we allow one of the pilots to leave the cockpit for a short period of time for biological reasons, and the...

Chilling and terrifying account of the last minutes in that cockpit. i want to read you some of the direct quotes from that prosecutor. he said this was a voluntary action by the copilot. this could be interpreted as a desire to destroy this plane. he talked about how the copilot, who's been named at andrius lubitz a 28-year-old german who qualified from the lufthansa flight school just under two years ago. he described how this man was alone in the cockpit after the other pilot, the more experienced pilot, has left. had left. he was breathing normally. he manually and deliberately put the pla...

>> what programs are in place by lufthansa if there are problems? >> all our flight attendants and pilots have access to trained psychologists wherever they are. if they require -- if they ask for it. >> if there were indications during the training, how can it be that this -- that such a pilot still got his license? >> there were no further indications as to lack of qualification, and -- and we -- at the end of the training we

Some kind of deliberate action and willingness to destroy this plane. >> the french prosecutor also described the moments before the impact. normal breathing inside the cockpit. the sound of the pilot locked out trying to get back in and then -- a collective cry in the moment before impact. here's what we know about the copilot. identified at 28-year-old andreas lubitz a resident of germany. joined germanwings in september 2013 directly after completing training. right into this with nbc's beal kneel bill neely near the crash site in france. bill good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jose. ...

Katy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jose. it was certainly a very tense atmosphere inside that press conference when the ceo of lufthansa came out. you could tell even though he was speaking in german you could tell he was certainly getting emotional about the events of the past few days and the events and everything that they have learned about the crash in the last day or so and then he went on to reiterate, as you saw, that he's still very confident in the pilot now. he explained a little bit about andreas, the co-pilot and also touched on a medical leave issue which he didn't ex...