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Jose? >> yeah. that press conference expected to start in about 15 minutes from now. we've been talking about the regulations that exist. the protocols that exist ak when people get in and out of the cockpit. tom costello is with me. tom, tell us a little about exactly that. what are the protocols and the regulations? >> reporter: jose, give me one second. i'm reading something just in to me. literally five seconds to read it. >> go ahead and read that. >> reporter: nbc news is -- we can report according to the faa this pilot had a single engine private pilot's license issued by the faa. on ja...

As to the technical skills and once a year we have a health exam. there are no psychological tests. of course, during the training, we pay attention to the leading qualities of a pilot, because every pilot has to be able -- every copilot has to be able to take over from the flight captain in case the flight captain is incapacitated. and that's why we prepare our pilots psychologically to do that, but we don't have specific psychological tests. that, we do not have. i'm from north >> translator: i'm from north iraq radio. i met with two teachers and

28-year-old andreas lubitz a german resident. he had 630 hours of flying time. he joined germanwings in september of 2013 after completing training. we also know he had a single-engine private pilot's license issued by the faa in january of 2012. let me bring in msnbc analyst and a licensed pilot. thank you so much for being with me, gentlemen. john, let me start with you. we just heard this press conference in cologne, germany by the leadership of lufthansa. they simply don't know how this could have happen. but one of the things that is kind of odd is that they say that this co-pilot during ...

In all likelihood using the auto flight system and flew the airplane into the ground killing everybody onboard. for a professional pilot to do such a thing is almost incomprehensible to me. i'm struggling even conceptionally to get my head around it and i just -- i find it unimaginable. and so it's -- the entire focusen the investigation now shifts from an accident investigation, this was not an accident. into a criminal investigation. and i think it will proceed forward that light from here going forward. >> and anthony, i want to play more of what that french prosecutor said just a little bi...

The weather and they have a facility there to train them so that's normal. we also know that lubitz had an faa private license, private pilot's license, an faa private pilot's license. in other words to fly a plane here in the united states. he was not, we should point out, qualified to fly commercial aircraft here in the united states, and then to get into the weedsed with the show of lufthansa -- >> tom before you do that let me go because you mentioned something that's important about the prosecutor and i want to -- along with you tom, and folks watching us i want to show the images of this...