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Hours professionally in the air, this doesn't seem odd. this just seems like a young pilot. they're saying he was able to set the flight controls from 38,000 feet, where it was at its cruising altitude to 100. that's a big reveal. >> what we can't do, thomas, is mistake experience for competency. you know the captain will be significantly experienced, possibly with tens of thousands of hours and obviously hugely competent. but there will be competency tests through training rigorous training, where they will have to do various checks. checks in the air, very very strenuous checks in the simula...

We can't mistake criminal activity for terrorism. terrorism is criminal activity, but criminal activity isn't terrorism. we need to understand the profile of this guy. we need to look at what his religious persuasions were what is his psychological profile, how did he do through training you know what is his social profile. all of these factors will start to build this jigsaw puzzle. >> one thing we know in 2009 when he was in training he took a break, six months they described it as burn-out syndrome. john cox, as we look at the protocol of what is mandatory for pilots here in the u.s. how mu...

Evaluated, then they're brought into a training program where they're taught to fly the airline's way to fly airplanes from day one. it's much more similar to the u.s. military's approach. the u.s. military has very low-time pilots flying very very highly sophisticated airplanes, even into combat. so this type of training can produce high-quality aviators in a short period of flight hours. in addition, the licensing process that the europeans use is somewhat different. they use a multicrew license system. that means that unlike the u.s. system where you're first a private pilot, then an instru...

Andreas lubitz german security officials say there's no indications he had any terrorist background or connections. this morning the ceo of lufthansa said he was fit to fly and described his training. >> six years ago there was an interruption in his training and after we -- we qualified that he was ready for this job, he continued his training. he passed all medical tests and passed all aviation tests and passed all checks. >> the co-pilot school mate saying he took six months of a break due to burnout. they called it a burnout syndrome. we begin our team coverage with nbc's claudio and tom c...