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Minister just speaking right now. not a lot of new information from him, but, boy, we got a lot of information just moments ago by that prosecutor, marseille prosecutor. keir simmons is very near the crash scene in france. keir good morning. >> reporter: good morning, yes, we did get a lot of information about how this a320 had a devastating descent into the mountain range of the alps. just behind me you can see, get the cameraman to pan across the mountain as i describe what happened. what the french prosecutor says happened. he says the copilot refused to open the door for the pilot, and the...

Intentionally. the motivations could be could be of various nach erstures. they don't have to be of personal nature. could it be that there was a terror attack that -- no. i can only agree with our minister of the interior. there are no indications, no signs that there was a terror -- terrorist attack. and i would like to add second question, the cockpit -- the pilot left the cockpit. is there the habit that somebody else enters the cockpit and if so why was that not the case? no. that is not the case in germany and europe we don't have this regulation. there are very few airlines which have s...

Make sure that the pilot is qualified, and after this interaction he was qualified to continue his training and that's what he did. and this dropping out took place six years ago. >> which consequences will this accident imply for the choice of pilots and for the training program of pilots? >> i would like to repeat what i said earlier. in spite -- and i hope i talk for everybody. in spite of this horrible accident, this horrible tragedy, i and my colleagues have total confidence in the selection process and training process at lufthansa lufthansa. we believe that this homogenous

>> translator: i would be grateful if you could ask your questions loud so that everybody can hear you. >> was there no -- jonathan miller frommill er from channel 4 news, sir. you say there was no way of preventing an accident like this but was there another pro by which the captain, the pilot could, have entered the cockpit door by perhaps enters a code to override the locking system? [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> translator: in our field we have procedures in place, which are which were introduced after 9/11. and -- and i have -- and i, of course, i have my own experience. since sept...

The awed dwleeudio that can be heard on the black box recovered from the mountains here and what it appears to show the prosecutor french prosecutor said in the last few hours is that the copilot does not respond to desperate, banging on the door of the pilot, trying to get in. but at the same time the pilot continues to breathe normally as the plane goes down into the mountains, right up until the end. in other words, the copilot was alive right up until the final seconds of the descent and just sickeningly, horrifyingly in the final many minutes, it's possible apparently to hear the screams ...