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>> you know, sean, there's always that chance. and there's a lot of information that we don't know in this case. he could have inadvertently put the wrong number in his barometric altitude hold and that would have caused the plane to start descending. in this type of aircraft you can put in an altitude and it will start descending. that being said he could have become unconscious after that happened. what they're saying is that he was breathing normally they're saying he did not respond to the pilot outside the cockpit banging on the door. but they're not saying if that pilot outside the door ...

Cockpit, the other pilot tried to evidently tried to lock him back out of the cockpit that has to be manually done. >> can that be done? and how? >> it can be done. there's a switch that you have that's controls that door. so it can be done by simply putting it in the locked position and not allowing the person to come in. there's some procedures that we'll go through as we go forward here. but nonetheless, it was an intentful move to lock that door. >> to make this clear to the team here you guys know this already. but for the rest of us here's how the airbus company explains how this door me...

The parameters, the door might have been locked. you'll find out an entire digital picture of what was happening. >> i want to go to peter or tom foreman who are standing by in washington. tom? >> hi, peter. this is the switch in question. explain what we're looking at right here. >> this is the cockpit door switch that we've been discussing. and here it's got a toggle switch. it has three positions. unlock. normal and lock. in the normal position you can enter the cockpit door. in the locked position, you cannot get through it. it has to be flipped up to unlocked first and then dropped back d...

Particular key pad is outside of the cockpit. what is supposed to happen is if a pilot is locked out of the cockpit you isare seeing a flight attendant, she is going in and finding the pilots slumped over because she could access the cockpit with the air code. the airline issue as code only employees know they type it in the pad and they can get into the cockpit. the button inside the cockpit, the switch inside the cockpit, low as you to override and eliminate that. there it is. by throwing the toggle switch in the lock position and that locks out the key pad for five minutes and prevents anyo...

Screaming from the passenger compartment just before impact. now in the united states the faa requires two people to be in the cockpit at all time. but listen to this. >> lufthanza and the other european carriers on intraeuropean flights have elected to use the one crewmember rule, and that gives the person inside control of the airplane all by themselves. >> so no doubt aviation authorities in europe may be reconsidering that one person cockpit rule. >> let's take another look now at that cockpit. big question coming up today, can you override it are from the outside? do pilots and crew have ...