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Captain. this is a workhorse plane, not a plane known to have tremendous problems. it has problems but nothing out of the ordinary as far as we know. if you look at the flight pattern of this plane, ashleigh, that's where the mystery comes in because everything looked normal. this is the speed of the plane here in red. the blue is the altitude of the plane. and all of this looks perfectly fine. along in here, the plane was going somewhere around 500 miles an hour plus which is perfectly normal. it lost a little bit of speed right in here. nobody knows exactly why or what that was about. and he...

Extreme hikers. and the weather is now another terrible obstacle for any of the crews who are trying to get in there to rescue if there is anyone to rescue or recover if there's anything even left to recover. just ahead, a virtual look at the plane and then that remarkable terrain where it went down. when you ache and haven't you're not you. tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. you're a better you all day. tylenol®. first impressions are important. you've got to make every second count. banking designed for the way you live you...

That plane came down in the mountains in the southeast of france. and the problem right now, it is extraordinarily remote, it is so hard to access. here with me in new york is cnn aviation analyst, a 777 captain and contributing editor for "flying" magazine. also joined by mary schiavo who's live in our london newsroom right now. les, let's talk about the flight path. it was headed to dusseldorf, 45 minutes into this flight, all of a sudden, no contact at all. and yet we're getting a notification from the white house that there's no suggestion that there's a nexus to terrorism. but there's no ...

The distress call came from the ground to the plane, not from the plane. >> that's my understanding. with a lot of emergencies, we've talked about this before on air. it's aifuate, navigate and communicate. that may have been in the process of navigating so they weren't getting themselves into a terrain danger because they know, i'm sure, they're situationally aware of the terrain in the alps. and then they wanted to communicate. something stopped them from communicating directly because maybe they had a compound problem. 12k3w >> it's not as simple as hitting a button so that air traffic cont...

For some unknown reason it began a catastrophic eight-minute descent which no one at this point is believed to have survived. recovery teams and investigators are scrambling to reach the crash site at this time while devastated families are converging on several airports. at a news conference in germany, the airline's ceo said both the captain and the plane were in seasoned condition. >> translator: the captain of the airliner was a captain who had been working for lufthansa germanwings for over ten years. the model airbus, he had actually flown with over 6,000 flight hours. >> our live covera...