what's happening, they notify the co-pilot. we're going through this the way it's conveyed to us by the ceo. they're saying he then tried to enter the cockpit. that would have involved a notification a button they push that gives a beep up front. he could pick up the inner phone and say i'm ready to come back in. let me in. i expect that's what happened but there was no response. he gets to try it again. pushes the button and gets no response. third time he says maybe she's incapacitated. let's see what we can do. he enters the code. a loud beeper goes off in the cockpit cockpit. it's loud and annoying. it's hard to miss. we will know if the pilot tried to access the cockpit. >> to follow on that once that happens, the person in side cockpit can open the door choose not to open the door hit lock or after the 30 seconds of this piercing alarm, it automatically opens. >> correct. but it didn't automatically open. >> which leads you to believe what? >> one of two things. either the co-pilot locked the door or something we haven't

the co-pilot did it. french prosecutors say the german wings co-pilot deliberately slamming the passenger jet into a mountain side. they say the 27-year-old co-pilot's intention was to destroy the plane. the cockpit voice recorder showing evidence of the terrifying minutes of the doomed flight. >> mystery, terror and confusion. just 48 hours after german wings flight 9525 goes down in the french alps killing everybody on board. today the french prosecutor accusing the co-pilot of crashing the airplane. >> he voluntarily allowed the plane to lose altitude. >> the story starts at 10:01 a.m. german wings flight takes off barcelona in route to dust sell doppler germany. the conversation between captain and co-pilot. >> it was a normal chatter. almost joyous,. >> 10:27 a.m. the plane reaches 38000 feet. at this time the captain steps out of the cockpit leaving the co-can-pilot in charge. >> it seems sure that the co-pilot made the most of the pilot stepping out of the cockpit. >> two minutes later things go ho

the co-pilot did not utter a single word. there was absolute silence in the cockpit. >> we are speechless at lufthansa, at germanwings. can i only repeat what i said during the last days. we are shocked and we are concerned, and i couldn't believe that this feeling would be intensified. >> that was the ceo of lufthansa airlines and a french prosecutor discussing the new developments in the flight of germanwings 9525 now believed to be a deliberate act. the prosecutor has confirmed the co-pilot identified at 25-year-old andreas lubitz seen in this photo verified by a german newspaper was in control as the plane began its rapid descent and apparently brought down the plane. it's revealed that the pilot left the cockpit to use the restroom and when the pilot returned and knocked on the door to get back in there was no response from the cockpit. he could later be heard pounding on the door with still no response from lubitz who remained silent inside. the audio did pick up the screams from the passengers as the plane went down in

but there's no sons from the co-pilot. >> co-pilot, that would be this man. and the very first photograph that's emerged of andreas lubitz. he was a 28-year-old german national who'd flown for germanwings for 18 months. the airline said he passed all of his training and cleared all screenings. get this, lufthansa does not psychological tests. crash victims' relatives were flown in from germany and spain. the site itself is reachable only by helicopter in which experts are lowered by cables and ropes. despite all of that, some human remains have now been recovered and authorities say they are hopeful that they will also be able to find that much sought p after flight data recorder. cnn is covering every angle this morning. first up, our senior international correspondent nick robertson who's standing by live near the families and first responders in that staging area in france. what is so remarkable is to hear these officials say that are speechless about these revelations that the co-pilot deliberately did this. what steps are they now taking to figure out wh

the motive of this co-pilot. was this something that the co-pilot had preplanned? had thought about in the -- thought about, had planned to do on this day on this flight? or was it simply something that perhaps, they'd thought about. but took the opportunity when the pilot went up to go to the bathroom? >> anderson we may never know the answer to what was in his head unless he had postings on social media or disclosed to family members, friends, colleagues, some other person or persons that he may do something like this, or they discovered he belonged to some extreme group that may have been a motivator for him to do something like this. if he decided this on his own, even if he preplanned it for a while to do it on his own and didn't share that with anybody, he's going to take that information to his grave. and we're not going to know. >> it is possible and the prosecutor said there's no evidence of terrorism at this point. no evidence that this is not motivated by some sort of desire to make a statement about something. >> well we just don't know. i mean that's j

the co-pilot then went completely silent. in the background you can hear the pilot knocking on the cockpit door and fran technically trying to smash it down. he could not get back inside. that's of course by safety design. prosecutors say the plane accelerated as it flew down into the french alps and they assume that the co-pilot meant to destroy the plan. the ceo plans to address the media at 6:30 this morning. we plan to figure out who this pilot was he had about six years of flying experience but the pilot flying the plane had 6,000 flying hours. >> and only worked for germ germanwings for a short time. >>> now a story develop iing th hour, took a bizarre turn. denise huskins turned up miin southern california and now she's off the map again. now they are calling it a hoax. >> we're tracking this. we'll have a live update in about 15 minutes. >>> turning attention to department in mourning. flags at half staff as officers honer fallen officer michael johnson. >> bob redell is joined outside of the police station where the

co-workers say the same thing. the question is at what point did he form the intent to commit this act? one of the things they have to look at in addition to all the physical searches of his media, of his apartment, all those things is did he try to gain employment with germanwings to do something and was waiting either for a signal from a terrorist group or something else or was it something that was simply triggered by something that happened recently? was there somebody on the plane that he had an h an argument with? was there a jilted girlfriend? was he jilted? a number of things. they need to look at the passenger manifest to see if there's any connections that might help identify what that motive may be. >> should there be a rule worldwide, the entire aviation industry a rule requiring that there always be at least two crew members insuedide a cockpit? somebody else should go in a flight attendant, so there's never a case where there's one person in the cockpit? >> yeah. of course that's what we do here in th

what do we know about this co-pilot? he's identified as andreas lubitz 28 years old, a german national. he had been with the airline since september of 2013. let's bring in our senior international correspondent. you just had an exclusive interview with the lufthansa ceo. tell us what he told you. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely. i just talked to carsten spohr about a wide range of issues pertaining to this case. there were two main points. one of them was the mental stability of this co-pilot. he said there were absolutely no indications at least to lufthansa that he might have been mentally instable that he might have had any sort of depression issues. he also said he believes this is what he calls an isolated case. there was no indication of this. this is not an indication that perhaps their system of evaluating mental issues with their pilots might be flawed. however they also said they would re-evaluate it as well. i also asked how he could be so certain all of this was done deliberately with criminal intent. let's li

the only one that lufthansa said is that their co-pilot was a relatively inexperienced co-pilot, just two years with the company, 630 flying hours, whereas the main pilot had ten years' service and 6,000 flying hours under his belt. so we are no clearer -- in fact the investigation is even more complicated by these announcements. now, in the next few minutes, we are expected to have a press conference from the marseille prosecutor prosecutor. he is meeting some of the victims' families who have either flown or driven into marseille in the last few hours, before driving up nearer to the crash site where we are now. it's not 100% clear where they're going to be staying. it's pretty obvious that none of these people want really any publicity at all, going through the ordeal they are. there are psychologists here and translators, so they can actually listen to what the prosecutor has to say and communicate with the french officials carrying out this recovery, this recovery expedition. now, we're just getting a line -- actually it's just coming through to me. but it does appear that there

they said the co-pilot was suicidal several years ago. should that be an automatic disqualifier in order to fly a commercial jet? >> without knowing the specifics of what the prosecutor means by suicidal and what the actual physicians or sigh sigh tryst report specified, there's no way to say he should have been permanently banned from flying, no. >> what should prompt a permanent ban or suicidal attempt and action? is there a gradation here? >> no it's really a question of what the pilot's duty was to report he was having trouble of any kind whether that was stress burn out from work psychosystematic illness. he had a duty and obligation to report that to his ploer and aviation examiner or flight surgeon. >> this of course wasn't just suicide at the end of the day. he didn't just fly himself into a mountain. this was mass murder. when i know being suicidal is not the same thing in being homicide l. us. >> in his mind he didn't see it as being homeicide. based on what we know from the leaks of what he was suffering, he would not have cons

the co-pilot no one suspected. this co-pilot's record gave no hint of such horror. >> he was 100% fit to fly without any restrictions. his flight performance was perfect. it was nothing to worry about. >> our reporters are covering this story tonight from every angle. question begin with renee with the breaking news on how the auto-pilot was reprogrammed. you broke this nudes. what are you learn something. >> data streamed suggests that someone manually reprogrammed auto-pilot to bring the jet liner down. fright trafficking website, tells me they analyzed data from the plane's transponder and determined someone reprogrammed the auto-pilot from 38,000 feet to just 100 feet. essentially telling the plane to go down as it continued on a path straight towards the french alps. as one pilot told me this manual reprogramming indicates intent to crash this aircraft because 100 feet is below the level of terrain. erin. >> just horrific. thank you very much. tonight german officials are trying to everything they can to find

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if you have a co-pilot intent on taking the plane down who's to say the co-pilot wouldn't take the flight attendant out of the equation? >> correct. that's always been the counter argument that someone who is committed to doing harm the first fatality would be the person in the cockpit. i floated that to a couple of friends of mine. they said they're not there to stop them. they're there to open the door to let other people come in to help them. after the egypt air flight 990, southwest airlines adopted a policy they would never allow one person to be in the cockpit for that reason. as your reporter indicated after # 9-11 faa made it a rule you can never have one person. it's not guaranteed if you have two up there you're going to be able to stop it. it's another level of protection. when you're a pilot, you want another level of safety. >> to know if you need to get the door open you can. thank you so much. >> thanks. >>> any moment now. just a heads up to all of you. amanda knox will soon learn her fate what the court has decided whether or not they'll uphold the murder conviction in th

so usually there's a co-pay or co-insurance or i mean there are generally other things. >> correct. >> i want to be clear when you say co-pay that's all you pay and you're done or other things going coming down they're always unpredictable that didn't rove the reality of unpredictable things later i feel like this is not a real stated because that is fixed and that's not fixed people don't like uncertainty. >> i agree in our experience they like the predictability of co-pays. >> in the absences of other charges. >> d this goes before the doctor's visit. >> absolutely within the quote that the member - the deductible has been removed no longer a $250 deduct when a member goes to a doctor they'll pay a co-pie as opposed to the 15 percent the united health care pays after medicare pays that's the $6 amount when they look at their evidence of coverage their see the actual flat co-pay. >> okay. >> so that would be like $57. >> correct. >> like $20 at kaiser for an office visit. >> correct. >> too good to be true usually is too good to be true. >> the next slide is the consideration that

so the pilot and the co-pilot? >> some airlines other airlines the procedure, we said the equipment is the same. >> but the procedures -- >> might vary. >> but often times, at least one flight attendant would have the number? >> 30 seconds, do they change this regularly? the code? is it per flight? >> we're not going to talk about that. >> fair enough. that's a point we wanted to make. we don't want to reveal everything. when this code is put in if it's done correctly, there's a buzzer inside the cockpit, correct? >> there is. >> and it buzzes justin. >> that's correct. >> is there a light that goes off, as well? >> no the buzzer will tell the pilot someone wants to come in. and the pilot will be able to see a screen who's outside the cockpit. >> in a way -- >> not in this one. >> in a way, it's like an identifier a doorbell. hey, i'm outside, i want in. >> loud and long doorbell. >> to that point. >> it's going, the most annoying sound in the world. >> okay. to that point, with the cockpit voice recorder have pick

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jon what do we know about the co-pilot? >> reporter: jenna, we are learning more about his flight history behind the controls and we are also learning more about his background, his personal history. jenna we don't know the pressing and puzzling question at this point why he apparently did what he did. andreas lubitz was a german citizen and had 600 hours of flight experience on board the air bus a 320. he trained in the flight school in germany and lived with his parents in germany and had a flat in dusseldorf which was the flight destination after taking off from barcelona. there was nothing to suggest anything unusual about his background. no red flags and prosecutors don't believe it was an act of terrorism and they don't believe that lubitz was connected to a terrorist organization. >> in the beginning stage as you rightly point out. what do we know about the final minutes before the flight crashed? >> reporter: as you talked about in the intro disturk new details. the pilot had left the cockpit most likely to use the

why was the co- pilot allowed to be in the cockpit alone? >> also in the united states to my knowledge, it is true for few airlines. most of the airlines around the world follow the policies of lufthansa. flights with low workload a pilot can leave the cockpit for physical needs and he returns to the cockpit as soon as he can. that is procedure in place. >> regulators and airlines are reviewing their rules. the u.k. aviation urging airlines to require two people be present at all times. this is a requirement in the united states. air berlin and norwegian air shuttle deciding to change policy. air emirates are changing its policies. what do these new rules now mean? if a pilot or co- pilot has to step out, another crew member will take their place on the flight deck. >>> threatening into a full-scale civil war. the u.s. not participating in the attacks, but the pentagon did provide the intelligence. now threatening to send ground troops into yemen if necessary. we is cnn's ian lee with the latest. >> reporter: christine, air strikes rock the

the pilot is seated here. >> co-pilot here. >> co-pilot is there. pilot gets out. here is the switch we talked about where that cell phone is covering that up. that is where the switch is made to lock or unlock the door. that had to be held down three seconds. it can be released. it stays in locked position five minutes. >> if i may interrupt? >> go ahead. >> in addition to what you pointed out, the door can be manually locked also. we have that capability of doing a manuel latch. he could have gotten out of his seat reached back and done that also. >> there's a latch or handle whatever you want to call it from within the cockpit to exit and enter the rest of the plane. that does not exist on the other side of the door. >> correct. on this side of the door -- let's say i'm on the passenger side where everybody is seated. and you're inside. if i try to get in i'm not going to be able. if you hit lock it won't open. i can't put in the emergency thing until five minutes later. at that point i can try again to try emergency to get in. >> if i'm the co-pilot inside the

there's one pilot or co-pilot sitting there in this image. but it's so disturbing to think that they don't have the protocol in place. lufthansa is saying they're not going to be reactionary to this and change protocol. we're seeing other low-cost airlines throughout europe saying they will make a change starting tomorrow. >> as we look at this picture, the cockpit, a lot of folks have been asking throughout the course of the day, what are the rules in this country that apply when pilots leave the cockpit? what we know is the airlines have to develop procedures that are approved by the faa. we just pulled this information a few moments ago. those procedures include a requirement that one of the pilots exits the cockpit for any reason another qualified crew member must lock the door and remain on the flight deck until the pilot returns. that's according to the faa. the qualified crew member that doesn't necessarily have to be a pilot. that can also be a flight attendant. it can also be someone on that flight that's a pilot as well. but again,

>>mark: the co-pilot wanted to destroy the plane. >>darya: the co-pilot has been named a german national and he says that the voice cockpit recorder captured was sounded like the alarms going off and that happens when there is a descent summer also heard banging on armored door of the cockpit and they said that was the pilot this said the co-pilot was alone and control the plane and conscious of until the impact so he says that the descent began manually by the co-pilot and intentionally and he was aware conscious and the pilot was banging and he would not let him into the cockpit. >>mark: is a live picture coming out oklahoma powerful storms sweeping through parts of oklahoma and arkansas as for getting these live pictures coming in from the cnn affiliate ride down >>darya: and is one person killed the bear including one tornado that went through a mobile home park in was spotted near san springs a tulsa suburb and moving about 45 mi. an hour the storm system damage to homes down trees and power lines and was in the latest on the na

that means this co-pilot would not have qualified to be a co-pilot before the rule change but not now. would that have made a difference in this case? there is no way to tell. retrospectively, maybe if this young man was disturbed it would have made a different with hundreds of more hours of training? we just don't know. there is one other area as well where u.s. rules are tougher than europe. it is the faa rule requiring that two people have to be in the cockpit at all times. in europe they can be alone if someone has to leave to go to the bathroom or anything. on u.s. carriers, someone else has to enter the cockpit to be with the pilot. again, obviously we'll never know these things don't operate in retrospect. and today many carriers announced they will begin using that rule. joining me now is catherine higgins. thank you for being here. >> happy to be here thank you, why does the u.s. have this rule of two? >> this is one of the changes made after 9/11. when it was decided, and it makes enormous sense, is that to try and create another layer of safety. if a pilot or co-pilot leave

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the co-pilot are 630 hours of flying. in the u.s. under new regulations he could not yet have been in command of a commercial flight. now need 1,500 hours in the u.s. jose i want to be clear, that's as i said not an explanation for what happened because when you think back to some of the past pilot murders before to the past pilot murder-suicides, it was often a very experienced captain who had some kind of mental breakdown and was accused of it as a co-pilot so that's, you know highly unlikely although there is a reason that the mental state of that co-pilot is going to become a huge focusing of the investigation. >> thanks so much seth kaplan. i want to go to tom costello now, our aviation expert. tom, i want your take on what we've been reporting and seeing first from the french prosecutor and then from the show of lufthansa group. >> well, i would start out with -- with the stunning announcement from the french prosecutor, and if we could roll some of that video of him just holding the news conference, watch his body language. i

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anyone else in this co-pilot's life? could there potentially be other nefarious acts that could have been connected to it that may have been planned for future attacks? >> i spent years as an investigator, you go back through and you look under literally every rock. you look at his computer, his phone logs. twitter accounts whatever you can find to find some evidence. i mean, this guy may -- if this truly was his objective -- the guy could have broken up with his girlfriend. i mean that is over the top, but, you know, it's possible. but there's got to be something in his background. another thing, you know these terrorist groups the way they operate. they prey on fear. if ultimately may want to take responsibility for this. >> you see it as a criminal act, don't you? >> absolutely. absolutely. >> all right. thank you very much. you're a pilot. you've been watching breaking news coverage of the latest with the germanwings plane disaster crashing into the mountain two days ago. now we know the co-pilot on that doomed passe

the co-pilot of germanwings 9525 now considered a culprit. french officials saying the plane's voice recorder say andreas lubitz deliberately crashed the a320 into the french alps killing everyone on board. flight radar 24 having data set the auto pilot to 100 feet as low as it could go. as inconceivable as it is for a pilot to crash a commercial plane on purpose, it's certainly not unprecedented. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: a regularly scheduled flight from los angeles international airport to cairo, egypt, with a stop at john f. kennedy airport in new york. that was the plan for egypt air 990. but on october 31st 1999 the boeing 767 crashed into the atlantic ocean. about 60 miles off the coast of massachusetts. >> cockpit of boeing 767 in my airspace. >> reporter: crash investigators say the co-pilot learned he was being demoted and took control of the plane when the captain stepped out of the cockpit sending it into a nosedive toward the ocean. the cockpit voice recorder revealed the co-pilot repeated i rely on god 11 times just befor

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any clues from the prosecutor as to why the co pilot might have done this? >> we have very little detail about the co pilot. we have his name, andrew lubit a german national. he was 28 years old. he'd been flying for germanwings for almost two years beginning in august, 2013. he had 630 hours of flying experience, and the prosecutor reiterated many times he was absolutely not considered a terrorist. he does not believe this was a terrorist attack. it looks at this stage like a very tragic accident deliberately set about by an individual of which we know very little. >> all right charlie angela there, thanks very much for that. >> gem cigarettes from libya's two rival governments are resuming peace talks. the legally installed government in tripoli and u.n. government in tobruk are under pressure to back a u.n. proposal. it calendars for the normation of a national unity government comprising of technocrats. >> sri lanka's president is on his visit official visit to china since taking office in january, trying to renegotiate more than $5 billion worth of deal

and the co-pilot does something nefarious. and i think they need to come up with either a two-person pass code where if something's going on the pilot enters a pass code, flight attendant enters a pass code that way they can override it and get in. i understand pilots don't, you know really feel good about these psychological screenings, but unless they're better than detecting a mass murderer than a psychologist, they should really start to forward think these thinks because attackers will always figure out ways around policy. >> what do you think kathleen? the fact the pilot in this case had 150 lives, 149 plus his own, you look at a new york city bus and you've got dozens of people. if we start doing psychological testing for every public servant who has people's lives in his hands, or hers, going to test a lot of people. >> right. the airlines used to do psychological testing as part of their screening. in the earlier days the pilots came from military, which did their own screening. i'm not against it. it's just going to

here in the u.s., an a-320 co-pilot would likely have three times as many hours, but in german, there are not a lot of private pilots, so the airlines recruit directly out of college and put them through a training program. lubitz also trained in arizona but we're having trouble getting information about his time there because the training facility keeps hanging up on us. but the ceo of lufthanza says his flight record was impektable. . >> we are so proud of our training criteria, this is even mmore of a shock. >> now when lubitz went through training, remember they believe the co-pilot was not incapacitated because they could hear him athleting over the voice recorder. not answering, not speaking, clearly not letting the pilot back inside the cockpit. >>> so the state department now identifying the third united states victim in the crash e the other two americans, emily was a recent graduate of drexel university and her mother worked as a contractor for the u.s. government. paul andrew bramley was also and spanish passenger was traveling with a colleague to generation he worked as a

the co- pilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit. deliberately flew the plane into the mountain side killing 148 people and himself. the co- pilot has been identified as 27-year-old german national andreas lubitz. the central question and mystery here is why. german police searching his two homes for clues. the fbi announcing it will help french authorities in the investigation. i want to bring in rosie flores with more in germany. >> reporter: hi christine. i'm here where the family home is of lubitz. we believe his brother and grandparents killed nearby. this is a community he and his family have been part of. the family described as a good family and engaged in the community. no word on why this man would have done this but he stands accused of deliberately crashing the plane. a junior pilot with 630 hours of flying. impeccable record so far. more details are emerging about him. we spoken to people at the local flying club who knew him. they said he was passionate about flying as a teenager and following that dream. those that kne

. >> the co-pilot of germanwings flight 9525. officials believe he flew intentionally into the mountain, killing on board. >>> and more turmoil and violence in the middle east as a saudi-led coalition launches air strikes in yemen. >> welcome, i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. this is cnn newsroom. >>> we begin this hour with the investigation into germanwings' flight 9525. the co-pilot is accused of crashing the plane on turn, killing 150 people on that flight. his name, andreas lubitz, 7 years old and he reprogrammed the autopilot, changing the altitude from 38,000 feet to 100 feet. >> in the french alps, search crews have yet to find the plane's flight data recorder. they are battling steep terrain and swirling winds as they try to recover human remains. >> the families of victims of that flight are coming together in southern france, their first chance to see the recovery operation up close. nic robertson is there. >> reporter: an emotional day for more than 100 family members, who made the journey to southern fran

but, again, we've learned the co-pilot began the descent intentionally from 38,000 feet. and crashed it intentionally into the mountain, in the south of france. we're getting new info in, the last couple of minutes or so, jenny joyce has been co-late trading-in or selling your car, truck or suv? webuyanycar.com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. one, get your free online valuation. two, book an appointment. and three, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. ♪ find out how much your car is worth ♪ ♪ at webuyanycar.com one for the mood.lavors. one for the moment. each one can make every day more delicious than the last. the taste could only be baileys. the experience could only be yours. baileys coffee creamers. this is the one. >> more new information on the minute on this plane crash, they're saying this was intentional act for this crash that killed 149 people. >> we have a name now, co-pilot, he wasn't with the airline very long, i mean, germanwings, very long. >> eighteen months. >> about 18 months, flown for lufthansa, the parent compan

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. >>> investigators continue their search for answers behind the secret life of germanwings co-pilot andreas lubitz and why he would steer a jetliners into the mountainside. >> what authorities say the co-pilot actually did inside the cockpit moments before the crash. we'll take you inside a plane simulateder to show you what it looked like. >>> and bowe bergdahl new inside from the u.s. soldier as to why he says he left his unit in afghanistan. will his strategy keep him out of prison? >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning. i'm alison kosik in for christi paul paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're in the cnn "newsroom" and you're starting this hour with breaking news. cnn is now able to confirm the identity of the captain of the germanwings flight 9525. >> let's go to cologne, germany. fred, what have you learned about the pilot? >> reporter: yeah good morning, guys. this comes from a relative of patrick zondeheimer. he confirmed to a cnn crew that met him there that indeed his relative patrick sondenheimer was the captain of the flight the man who attempted to get back into

and they said it was obvious this co-pilot was not incapacitated. he could be clearly heard breathing. that rules out the possibility that he had fallen unconscious. and what is very strange is he didn't make a single sound during the last eight minutes of the flight. and that's despite repeated calls from the captain to open the door despite calls from air traffic controllers, and despite the plane's own altitude alarm going off, telling the pilot to pull up immediately. and the prosecutor added that it's unlikely that the passengers realized what the situation was, because their screams could only be heard in the final moments of that flight. >> all right. thank you very much. >>> plenty more coming up from europe this news hour including the reburial of richard iii, he is finally lead to rest 530 years after his death. ♪ >>> now at least four people have died in flash floods in one of the driest regions in the world, chile's desert that's happening while other areas are struggling with wildfires. >> reporter: earthquakes, volcano rup shuns, and

we know the co-pilot deactivated descent. there was a notion that maybe ground control could realize that and change that. but there are also problems with that as well. it's not really a perfect scenario either way it seems. >> it isn't. it's another safeguard in place to save lives. to have options like safeguards we're discussing is a viable option. anything to save life and preserve life is important to invest in. in this case i'm here to tell you had the cockpit door not done what it should be doing rather i would not be here today. my heart goes out to the families. it's a serious matter that has to be taken much more seriously in today's day and age. >> how many years with the new york police department? >> i was with the new york city citied -- york city police department 22 years. >> thank you. >> you got it. >>> we'll take you to the crash site where the search is on for the second black box, data recorder. it could hold clues as to what the pilot was doing in the final moments during the ten minute descent. >>> the

the co-pilot andreas lubitz, 28 years old. born in germany. just 630 hours of flight experience, only 100 of them on the airbus a-320. but who is he? today, we followed lubitz's trail, driving through the german country dusseldorf where he had an apartment, to his hometown of montabaur, in the shadow of a castle. here he lived most of the time with his parents, on a quiet street in a new development. this is the lieu pits family home, and tonight, it is a crime scene. police are inside searching for clues, for anything to help answer the agonizing question -- why. the shot the shutters closed keeping prying eyes out as police carry out suitcases, the neighbors stunned. "he's not the type of guy who would try and kill other people, absolutely not," he says. this is the small airstrip where andreas lubitz learned to fly. the flight club here remembers him, they say it was his lifelong dream to become a pilot. but he also learned to fly in the united states. lubitz began his lufthansa training in 2008 part of it at this flight center near phoenix

co-pilot's mind. what could have motivated a young man with a love of flying living his dream of being a pilot to set the auto pilot for a collision with a mountain? cameras in the cockpit. investigators are basing their findings on audio recordings but wouldn't it make sense to have visual evidence of what was actually going on inside the cockpit? why not install cameras? >>> and a proxy war. the u.s. is helping to fight pro-iran forces in one country but it's fig

but then the co-pilot went silent. you hear the pilot knocking on the door and frantically trying to smash through it and that's of course a safety design that the ceo is being questioned about as we speak. then lubitz increased speed manually, intentionally, and flew that plane with 150 people on board directly into the french alps and they assume those prosecutors meant to destroy the plane. authorities outside of the home believed to be that of the co-pilot. these a german citizen relatively new to flying. he has 600 flight hours compared to $6,000 ho6,000 hours the pil. we found out some of his training happened here. the parent company. lufthansa underwent psychological testing which is industry standard and nothing could have led -- there was no indication something like this could have happened. he said he's going to cooperate fully with the investigation and try to make sure something like this never happens again. we'll continue to monitor this, having more for you coming up at 11:00. >> thank you so much. so