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Be our major focus. i would also like to point out it doesn't matter how tough the security devices and measures are, and we certainly have very high standards, such events can never be totally excluded or -- and personal comment i worked as an engineer for lufthansa. i worked as a pilot for lufthansa. i -- i am responsible as a leading executive in lufthansa and safety was always first. it doesn't matter what position i was holding. and then this happened to us of all airlines is really regrettable and we are very, very sorry. thank you.

They said every test that he took the results were excellent, so there absolutely -- not only was there nothing in his past history over the course of the years that he was with lufthansa, but what i think people find particularly chilling is the very cool calm manner in which we apparently listening to what we heard from french authorities, he had the conversation with the pilot saying, you know he was going presumably to the restroom fine. gets out of his chair leaves. you can hear the door close and then absolute silence for ten minutes inside ignoring calls, ignoring alarms and then eventu...

>> what people are concerned about or looking for are files that would indicate practice flight trajectories. >> reporter: other investigators tells fox news there could be an entirely innocent explanation. the sudden turn may have been an effort to deal with an emergency in that cockpit and neil we await answers on that if the black box is ever found. >> just incredible. thank you. if the pilot took over the plane what do investigators hope to find on those deleted files? dan, what are we to make of this, deleting files, it gets involved. what's going on here? >> that's the beauty of having...

Investigation became a criminal case. investigators reassembled that simulator focusing on evidence that points to premeditation. this morning once the commotion died down authorities told reporters about this new evidence. >> some files have been deleted from the simulator. i would like to say that the passengers, the pilots and crew remain innocent until proven otherwise. >> reporter: investigative source also tells fox news they are trying to answer a series of questions as one example did the pilot rehearse these dramatic changes in altitude similar to 370's flight path and if the limited ...