lubitz crashed the jet on the next flight. german police discovered he researched suicide methods and the locking mechanism of the cockpit door on line. the interim hort also air traffic control attempted to contact flight 95251,11 times on three frequencies before it crashed. lubitz never answered calls or reacted to the captain banging on the cockpit door in vein as he steered the plane to its tragic end. >>> wow. now french investigators still have more work to do. they examine this deadly crash. we'll hear more from the director of the french agency, leading the investigation, later this hour. >> errol, u.s. officials believe a top isis hacker may have recruited or at least influenced the two shooters from sunday's attack in texas the after the attack, he left an ominous message. cnn's pamela brown has the latest. >> you ain't seen nothing yet. this tweet thought to be from janade hussein. hacker and recruiter. one official tells cnn, hussein is a real problem and could be inspiring other americans to launch attacks. >> he

lubitz was alone in the cockpit for just over four minutes on a germany to spain flight. during that time, he temporarily set the plane on a controlled descent. he turned the control dial from 37,000 feet to just 100 feet and left it there for three seconds before spending it back to 35,000 feet. lubitz again sets the dial at 100 feet and leaves it there for a few seconds before leveling it out at 25,000 feet. the captain returns to the cockpit and the flight to barcelona continues. >> this is not something a normal pilot would ever do. >> was he trying to crash that flight or trying to see if that loss of altitude would set off any alarms? >> whether he was practicing or losing his nerve, we don't know. >> on a return flight to germany, prosecutors say lubitz intentionally locked the captain out of the cockpit and crashed the plane into the mountains. >> the captain flying with lubitz might not have known that the young pilot was rehearsing for a crash because the adjustments did not change the trajectory of the plane. jummy: a quick thinking florida mother used a pizza

in the first official report since the march disaster, officials revealed 27-year-old andreas lubitz put the plane into descent mode five times in 4 1/2 minutes and brought it up again, just like during the fatal flight the captain appeared to have left the cockpit. [ foreign language ] >> reporter: the chief investigator said he couldn't speculate what was going on inside the german copilot's mind when he repeatedly set controls to the minimum setting of 100 feet. cockpit data shows the plane did not drop sharply, suggesting people on the flight from dusseldorf to barcelona might not have noticed any change. just two hours later, with the same crew and new passengers headed back to dusseldorf, investigators say lubitz carried out the same maneuver, but this time, he crashed the plane, killing himself and 149 others. tina krous, cbs news. >>> investigators still don't know why lubitz crashed that plane in the first place. but german authorities say he researched suicide methods and cockpit door security online the week before the crash. >>> now to our forecast, howard bernstein is tr

but co-pilot andreas lubitz had tried it before hours earlier setting the same plane to hit the ground. >> it was a repeat of the action he did on the flight. >> reporter: the first official report reveals an even more calculating, erratic man. the flight recorder from the plane's first leg to barcelona show that the captain left lubitz alone in the cockpit an hour and 20 minutes into the flight. in the four and a half minutes before he returned lubitz repeatedly set the altitude control to 100 feet. its lowest setting. five times. but he switched back so the plane continued its normal, smooth descent landing safely in barcelona. an hour after that it took off again for its fatal return flight. no one knew what he'd done. not the captain, the passengers nor controllers. >> the only thing air traffic controllers would have been aware of is the actual position or altitude of the aircraft. they would not have known what was selected in the cockpit. >> reporter: lubitz may have been doing more than just rehearsing. >> it does look very much like he was planning to crash the aircraft on the

andreas lubitz was at the controls. left alone in the cockpit he played on the computer for five minutes. he would return to dial just like this one. today's report says he put an extreme heights, from as low as 100 feet to his highs 49,000 feet. he did something similar on the plane he crashed. just turning the style would not lead to dramatic onboard changes. the captain and passengers would not have noticed a difference. investigators have built a picture of what happened on board the germanwings flight. this is the actual plane film earlier this year. the copilot with mental health problems locked his copilot out of the cockpit and deliberately flew into a mountain. the head of the investigation says there is work to be done. >> the main issue is why it is possible that despite the fact that pilots are subjected to medical control it is possible to have situations where pilots with particular troubles and efficiencies can be on an airplane. richard: the families of those on board no what andreas lubitz date, but the

and that's the conclusion being drawn from the new french aviation report and andreas lubitz crashed flight 9525 into the alps killing all 150 onboard and now there are questions about the flight he co-piloted just hours before that fatal flight. lubitz was alone in the cockpit for four minutes and during that time he temporarily set the plane on a controlled descent. he turned the control dial from 37000 feet and left it there for three seconds before spinning it back to 35,000 feet. lubitz again sets the dial at 100 feet and leaves it there for a few seconds before leveling it out at 25000 feet. the captain returns to the cockpit and the flight to barcelona continues. >> this isn't something that a normal pilot would ever do. >> with lubitz tried to crash that flight or was he checking to see if that kind of loss of altitude would set off any alarms and the exact answer may never be known. >> whether he was practicing or whether he was losing his nerve each time, we don't know. on the flight to dusseldorf germany, lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately crashe

now, investigators added that lubitz went into a controlled minute long descent for which there was no aeronautical reason. the setting he manually input was 100 feet which is crash landing altitude. he did it while he was alone in the cockpit for about five minutes. now, on the deadly flight hours later air traffic controllers, the military defense personnel tried to contact the plane 14 times as it was descending because that time in addition to changing the altitude lubitz also increased the speed of the flight and changed the flight path 93 seconds before the crash. the black box reveals that he did not do the same on that outbound flight as he practiced that deadly descent. that time he only changed the at tutd and then quickly changed it back which may be why it didn't arouse suspicion. you can't help thinking about the folks on that germany to spain flight though who must be counting their blessings this morning. though they were sitting quietly likely reading a book or a magazine unknowing that he was practicing a deadly maneuver. sam? >> maybe ignorance is bliss on that one as

the flight recorders from the plane's first flight to barcelona showed the captain left lubitz alone in the cockpit an hour and 20 minutes into the flight. in the four and a half minutes before he returned, lubitz repeatedly set the altitude control to 100 feet. its lowest setting. five times. but he switched back so the plane continued its normal, smooth, descent landing safely in barcelona. an hour after that, it took off again for its fatal return flight. no one knew what he'd done. not the captain, the passengers, nor controllers. >> the only thing air traffic controllers would have been aware of is the actual position or altitude of the aircraft. they would not have known what the pilot had selected in the cockpit. >> reporter: lubitz may have been doing more than just rehearsing. >> it does look very much like he was planning to crash the aircraft on the way out but changed his mind for whatever reason. >> reporter: the report shows lubitz ignored 14 attempts by controllers to contact him. as well as alarms, warnings, and the pilot banging on the door. he was bent on killing hi

on that return flight from barcelona to dusseldorf this time when lubitz goes to the control and takes it down to 100 feet he executes that and the aircraft starts a controlled descent down to the ground. several minutes later, that deadly crash. the united states doesn't allow a pilot to be in the cockpit alone. the rest of the world is considering a similar policy. david? >> david kerley who covers aviation for us. david, thank you. >>> next to a massive oil tanker train derailing, forcing evacuations tonight. the thick, dark smoke seen for miles. hazmat screwcrewing rushing to the scene. there is growing fears that this could happen far more often. abc's clayton sandell tonight. >> reporter: huge plumes of smoke and fire erupting into the sky. the train, over 100 cars long, loaded with crude oil, derailing then catching fire this morning. six cars engulfed. so much smoke, residents in the tiny town of heimdal had to be evacuated, but no one was injured. it's the eighth oil train derailment just this year. a few months ago in west virginia another train carrying crude oil jumped the

lubitz and the same captain piloted another flight. with the captain out of the cockpit, the flight data reporter soes lubitz set the auto pilot from 100 feet before leveling off again. >> he certainly was exploring the aircraft and its ability to go up and down and not stop him from descending it into the ground, making sure that nobody would see him. >> according to the report, the selected alty due decreased to 100 feet for three seconds and then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet. less than two minutes later, the selected altitude was 100 feet until it stabilized at 25,000 feet. the flight never left its scheduled path, so air traffic control didn't notice the altitude changes. >> the less the plane is equipped to stream the data and they decide to stream the data of the performance from the flight and someone is monitoring it, they wouldn't have noticed. it was clear that the pilot didn't notice. for another reason, the front lav was inoperative and he went to the back. he was gone for four minutes. >> it appears it was

andreas lubitz practiced sending a plane earlier in the day. lisa stark has more from washington. >> lib yeah and antonio it's been clear for some timer that the co-pilot of this germanwings flight deliberately brought that plane down crashing into the mountains killing everyone on board. but now there are chilling new details that indicate that he apparently did a dry run on the previous flight that day. information from the flight data recorder shows that on that previous flight from germany to spain, the captain stepped out of the cockpit for a short time, about five minutes. lubitz the co-pilot was left alone. the plane was flying at about 38,000 feet. air traffic controllers twice asked him to descent to a lower altitude. what lubitz did was set the altitudealtitude to 100 feet, he apparently did it several times seeing if the plane would respond to that altitude, and it did. they never noticed anything was amiss and neither did the captain when he returned to the cockpit. >> they asked the plane to desernd from 21,000 feet. they see the p

that's when lubitz started fooling around with the controls. you've noted there were several instances where he put the auto pilot down to 100 feet. there was another where he put it to 100 feet and then very quickly put it back to the maximum altitude. the interesting thing about all this is while he was doing this it didn't affect the trajectory of the plane at all. he was already beginning the normal descent of the plane. he was then fooling around with the controls putting it to difficult levels. the plane was regularly descending. this might have been one of the reasons why this captain didn't notice lubitz was doing this to the controls. a couple minutes later, according to this report the cockpit door was opened again. the captain came back in the cockpit, and the plane landed normally. however, the investigator went on camera today and said he's very very certain that this was lubitz practicing what he then did on flight back. >> fred thank you. let's spring board off of fred's points here. the preliminary report also laid out minute by

this graphic will try to help show you how lubitz tested the autopilot settings on the plane. let's get to cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh. i guess the big question is how could he have done this without anybody noticing? it would seem like something that air traffic control or someone would pick up on. >> a few reasons. we know the plane was already on its descent to spain. and, yes the co-pilot changed the altitude settings. but the plane won't change course until a pilot either pushes or pulls a knob. in this case the plane did not leave its flight path. and that's likely why no one noticed. tonight new details in a preliminary report from french investigators suggest not only was the crash of germanwings flight 9525 intentional, but it was premeditated. french investigators say 27-year-old andreas lubitz practiced his deadly descent of a jetliner the same day he steered germanwings flight 9525 into the french alps. just before that deadly flight lubitz and the same captain piloted the plane from dusseldorf to barcelona. the flight data recorder shows lubitz briefly s

the co-pilot, andreas lubitz, is suspected of deliberately crashing the jet. the french accident investigation agency, the b.e.a., has published an interim report. the document says the flight data recorder shows that during the outbound flight from dusseldorf to barcelona, the selected altitude was changed several times between 30 meters and 7,600 meters. the report says the cockpit voice recorder indicates the altitude change occurred over a four-minute period and lubitz was alone in the cockpit at the time. the investigators have said lubitz used the automatic pilot to lower the plane to an altitude of 30 meters from 11,500 meters before the crash. he then repeatedly increased the aircraft's speed before crashing it into a mountain. >>> like father, like daughter. not many people know it, but one of japan's famous wood block artists passed on his talent and style to a daughter. a new animated film describes her life in the floating world of edo culture. marie yanaka has the details. >> reporter: the innovative technique, the unconventional portrayal, such a

it's how many times lubitz changed the autopilot altitude controller on that earlier flight. he didn't actually take that earlier plane down. he just fidsled with the controls, checking things out. on the next flight he made the same adjustment and carried the thing through. he crashed it and killed everyone. senior international correspondent jim bittermann is in paris, aviation analyst and commercial boeing 777 pilot les avant is here as well. first to you in paris, this new information while astounding and shocking and distressing, does it do anything? terms of the investigation or potential litigation coming ahead? what exactly are we supposed to make of this? >> well a couple angles here. i don't think it changes anything in terms of the facts of the crash. i think basically they have been established now for some time. but it does say something about the co-pilot's mental state. one of the things that we don't know is whether he was trying this out to see if it would work or whether he was actually going to try it on that earlier flight and lost his nerves. that's somet

we went into an airbus a-320 simulator today to demonstrate what authorities say co-pilot andreas lubitz did next. a minute after the captain left the cockpit on that earlier flight, lubitz went straight to the altitude control and took it all the way down to 100 feet. he left it there for just three seconds. but it was just the first time of two times that he took it all the way down to 100 feet. so, was he practicing what would happen on the return flight? for those on board, including the captain, the nose down change in altitude would have been subtle, not dramatic at all. >> i think what this man was probably doing was rehearsing a little bit on what he was going to do on the next leg. like somebody picking up a gun and loading and unloading it. >> reporter: french investigators tonight believe the same, saying lubitz "rehearsed his action his intention to provoke the accident on the return flight." on that return flight from barcelona to dusseldorf, this time, when lubitz goes to the control and takes it down to 100 feet, he executes that and the aircraft starts a controlled descen

lubitz suffered from severe depression in the past and a computer found in his home shows he searched ways of committing suicide in the days leading up to the crash. prosecutors found torn up sick notes at his home showing he should not have flown the day of the fatal flight. there are reports that the german wings copilot practiced a dissent on a flight the same day as the flight that he crashed into the alps and of course if we get any official word from that report we'llup date you and of course on 6abc.com. for now we're live in the satellite center erin o'hearn channel6 "action news." matt back to you. >> opening statements in the trial of a man accused of slaying a philadelphia pediatrician. prosecutors claim jason smith of levittown bucks county got into an argument with melissa ketunuti at her center city home in 2013. she had hired the exterminator to do work at her residence. investigators say smith snapped strangling her and setting fire to her body to cover up the crime. ketunuti was a doctor at children's hospital of philadelphia. >> ♪♪ >> the democratic candidates fo

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lubitz did this while the captain was out of the cockpit. the same captain on the deadly flight later that day. frederik pleitgen joins us now. a lot here in this report. >> there is a lot here in that report. we've been talking so much since this crash happened about the premeditated nature of all of this and how much planning lubitz put into killing all those people when he steered that plane into the french alps. it seems as though right now that he did rehearse what he was going to do on the flight immediately before the doomed flight later that day and those are the words of the french investigators who put out that interim report today. there is interesting quotes in all of that. just like in the doomed flight, he waited for the pilot to leave the cockpit and then started fidgeting around with the controls. one quote we have here is selected altitude decreased to 100 feet. that's a selected altitude of the autopilot for three seconds and then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet and then stabilized at 35,000 feet. later in the

now, investigators have confirmed that lubitz flew to barcelona the same day as the crash on an earlier flight and conducted a "controlled descent that lasted for minutes and for which there was no an nautical justification." lubitz suffered from severe depression in the past an computer found in his home showed he used the internet to search ways of committing suicide in the days leading up to the crash. prosecutors found torn up sick notes at his home showing he should not have been have flown the day of the fatal flight. again investigators have just couldn't slimmed in the last half hour through that report that that german wings co-pilot did practice his descent earlier that day before he took that germanwings plain down into the alps killing all 150 people on board. of course "good morning america" will have more on this story and you can keep updated on 6abc.com. for now we're live in the sat center erin o'hearn channel6 "action news." tam. >> thank you erin. >>> and now to a developing story, the entire front of a vacant home came crashing down in south philadelphia overnight. y

a new report reveals andreas lubitz rehearsed on another flight. just hours before his plane landed then took off on the fatal flight he tested out his plan. he of course ended up murdering 149 passengers and crew on board. renee marsh is "outfront." >> reporter: french investigators say 27-year-old andreas lubitz practiced his deadly descent of a jetliner the same day he steered germanwings flight 9525 into the french alps. just before that deadly crash, lubitz and the same captain piloted the plane on a different flight from dusseldorf to barcelona. with the captain out of the cockpit, the flight data recorder shows lubitz briefly set the plane's auto pilot to 100 feet before leveling off again. >> he certainly was exploring the aircraft and its ability to go up or down and not stop him from descending it into the grund. making sure nobody would see him. >> reporter: according to the new report the selected altitude decreased to 100 feet for three seconds. then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet. less than two minutes later, the select

the officials say lubitz put the plane into descent mode five times in 4 1/2 minutes. then two hours later crashed the same plane killing himself and 149 others. in both flights, lubitz waited until the pilot was out of the cabin. >>> a school bus driver in arizona has resigned after he allegedly locked rowdy children on board. [ screaming ] >> help us! >> footage shows the kids screaming for help as the driver refuses to let them off the bus. some parents tried to pry open the doors when the driver suddenly speeds off they call 911. >> the kids are crying. he is actually driving away. with our kids! all our kids on the bus! >> the driver took the children back to their school where he finally let them off. he told officers he felt threatened by the parents. >>> other bay area headlines in san jose, the police department remembered its fallen officers. the photos of all 12 were on display including michael johnson killed in the line of duty this year. the observance comes before national peace officers memorial day on may 15. >>> san francisco police arrest a street ve

and this time lubitz didn't lock the door. finally, melissa also, as the plane was approaching barcelona at the time the plane was already gradually descending, he tested and reset this automatic pilot so quickly, that no one noticed anything was going on basically a dry run for this terrible accident melissa. melissa: wow. i mean it says a lot about the pilot's state of mind, right? >> yeah. this further fills out the picture. and the picture is, that andreas lubitz, with deliberation, with planning, was a part of this accident. we were in dusseldorf at the time of the crash. we know the police pulled out evidence from his house showing he already had suicidal tendencies. he was studying suicide techniques. he was studying cockpit security. now there could be broader implications not just about cockpit security but broader implications for expected raft of lawsuits from families of the victims. including by the way american victims. the charge being made that parent company of germanwings, lufthansa knew about his mental prob

lubitz waited until the captain left, locked the door, set it to 100 feet. directed the jetliner into the mountains killing all 150 people on board. awe thought was cnn aviation correspondent renee marsh reporting from washington. a north korean insider gives us a rare look at the reclusive regime. no topping w inic was off-limit cnn exclusive interview coming up. >> and as of 17 minutes ago, polls now open in the uk. coming up we'll give you a behind the scenes look at how cnn is covering this crucial election. stay with us. i don't want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. or wonder whether i should seek treatment. i am ready. because today there's harvoni. a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. harvoni is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who've had no prior treatment. it's the one and only cure that's one pill, once a day for 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. with harvoni, there's no interferon and there are no complex regimens. tell your doctor if you have other liver or kidn

authorities say lubitz suffered from suicidal tendencies and depression in the past. they're still looking for motive. now we want to go to d.c. mayor muriel bowser speaking about the death of a firefighter. >> a hero today, lieutenant kevin mcrae a 24-year veteran of the d.c. fire and emergency medical service passed away following a two-alarm fire on the 1300 block of seven street northwest. that's at the intersection of seventh and o streets in northwest. at 8:10 this morning, units were dispatched to a fire on the ninth and tenth floors of that building. units arrived at 8:13 and lieutenant mcrae's crew was the first team to arrive and fought the fire on the ninth floor. it took approximately 50 minutes, 50 minutes, to extinguish the fire. after the fire was put down lieutenant mcrae exited the building safely with his crew. he then collapsed on the scene. paramedics started cpr immediately and transported lieutenant mcrae here to med star where every effort was made to revive lieutenant mcrae. sadly, lieutenant mcrae was pronounced dead shortly after 10:00 a.m. l

the report is expected to talk about lubitz flying to barcelona the same day as the crash on an earlier flight and he constructed a "controlled descent that lasted for minutes for which there was no aeronautical justification." lubitz suffered from severe depression in the past an computer found in his home showed he used the internet to search ways of committing suicide in the days leading up to the crash. prosecutors also found torn up sick notes at his home showing he should not have flown the day of that fatal flight. again, there are reports that the germanwings co-pilot practiced his descent on a flight the same day as he crashed that flight into the french alps. of course if we get official word from france's agency today we'll bring it to you this morning and of course on 6abc.com. we're live in the satellite center erin o'hearn, channel6 "action news." tam. >> thank you. >>> doctors will try to remove a bullet lodged in an eight-year-old girl's head. police think she was the victim of a road rage shooting. an fly ya' curry has been in the hospital since saturday night. the fami

lubitz, now in control, put the plane into a planned descent. but seconds later, he set the aircraft to dive to 100 feet before swiftly correcting the settings. during the next few minutes, he instructed the plan to plunge four more times. then, less than five minutes after he left, the captain knocked to re-enter. lubitz reset the controls to the correct altitude. >> ( translated ): the captain didn't know because the copilot's test during the outgoing flight happened during a normal, preprogrammed descent and it didn't have any effect on the plane's trajectory. >> reporter: the report also reveals that lubitz ignored 11 radio calls from air traffic controllers and three from french air defense forces. the investigation will now focus on how a mentally unstable man came to be in control of a passenger plan. and how a line between passenger safety and medical confidentiality can be redrawn. >> woodruff: back in this country, another oil train derailed and burned today, this time in north dakota. it happened near the tiny community of heimdal, fo

andreas lubitz may have practiced on another flight on the same day. prosecutors believe lubitz crashed a german wings flight killing all 150 people onboard. joining me now, faa licensed commercial pilot and what does this report tell you? >> well i don't think this copilot was so much practicing the descent, he is a well trained pilot. luft this patient -- i've conducted many many many medical investigations involving psychiatric medical malpractice cases. this patient is stated to have suffered from suicidal thoughts and suicidal ideation simply what that means is that the patient begins to practice the suicide, to actually visualize it and then act it out. statistically, most patients who suffer from depression with suicidal ideation don't follow through. very small percentage follow through. in this particular case i believe all he was doing was visualizing the planning of the suicide and acting it out ahead of time. >> interesting. anthony, talk to me about this four-minute period where the -- on the previous flight the pilot went out to use the r

suggesting that lubitz wanted to crash the plane earlier. a virginia woman and her daughter were among the 150 people killed in that tragic crash and this report also going into great detail about the cockpit lock and -- which has become actually a focus point after the tragedy. as investigators begin to look at the compromises made on security after the september 11th attacks here in the u.s. aaron? >> angie, thank you. >>> we are staying on top of a dropping story affecting a prince george's county neighborhood. a broken sewer main leaking thousands of gallons of raw sewage in oxon hill. kristin wright with how the repairs are going right now. >> reporter: well aaron, people here are waking up to yet another day of a sewage leak. and the signs here really say it all. they say sewage overflow area. look how close the homes are. they're just right here. this could go on we're told for days at least. so far we can tell you at least 10,000 gallons of sewage water has spilled. at least. we're told this could go on for some time. but the problem

the co-pilot andreas lubitz apparently practiced putting the plane into a controlled descent during that flight. that according to an interim report just released by french accident investigators. lubitz is accused of deliberately crashing the fatal flight into the a alps killing himself and 149 other people on board. let's bring in our senior international correspondent jim bittermann joining us from paris and cnn aviation analyst peter goels joining us from dallas. jim, walk us through exactly what the co-pilot did on that earlier flight how investigators now came to the conclusioning that it was a rehearsal for what eventually wound up doing. >> right. exactly. basically the earlier flight was the outbound flight from dusseldorf to barcelona and during that flight at one point, the pilot left the cockpit leaving the co-pilot lubitz in charge and he dialed into the setting on the autopilot, he dialed in the lowest setting, 100 feet. he had been ordered to descend according to air traffic controllers, descend from 37,000 to 35,000 and instead of setting it at 35,000 he set it to 100 fee

it put forth this graph to explain how lubitz practiced. i want you to take note of all the red at the zero level. you see here? because that is how often and how long lubitz according to this report set the plane to drop toward 100 feet. the same auto pilot setting flight 9525 was at when it collided in the french alps. the report said lubitz did these dry runs over a period of five minutes when the pilot had apparently left the cockpit briefly and after air traffic control had directed the plane to go to a lower altitude. with me now, aviation attorney daniel rose and cnn analyst mary schiavo. welcome to both of you. i have a lot of questions. mary to you first. the fact we know this co-pilot repeatedly set that altitude at 100 feet a couple times during that previous flight is that something that folks on the ground air traffic control, should have or could have detected? >> no that's a problem. they had already given him an order to descend. what they had no way of knowing, because planes right now, why they can be capable of doing it i

lubitz repeatedly set the plane into a descent and brought it up again. let's listen to more on that report. translator: air traffic control asked the plane to descend. just before the dissent, the captain went out. the copilot changed the settings and the altitude to 100 feet which is what he did during the fatal flight. genie: there has been a lot of criticism in france over comments from the mayor of the southern town. robert minard let slip that -- that is something forbidden by french law. reporter: it was a televised comment on monday night that ignited a storm of controversy. city 4.6% of pupils in kindergarten to six grade are muslim. the mayor has all the children's names from every classroom. translator: saying anything else is denying the evidence. reporter: that is religious profiling and is illegal in france. the southern french town in question, outrage from all quarters. translator: it does not necessarily mean you are muslim. what is this, the second world war? translator: here is a suggestion . let's give all the muslim kids this little s

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experts believe co-pilot andreas lubitz in march deliberately crashed the plane into the french alps. the passenger jet was caring 150 people. it was traveling from barcelona to dusseldorf. french investigators on wednesday commented on the plane's flight data. they said it showed lubitz tried dangerous settings several times during the trip from dusseldorf to barcelona. that's the flight before the one that crashed. the expert panel put together by the european aviation safety authority will include medical professionals. the group will analyze the accident's cause to review the current system. the members will hear from european airlines on their mental and physical checkup system for pilots. they'll also learn about rules to enter the cockpit. >>> another japanese astronaut is ready for outer space. -- passed the final test in preparation for a six-month mission on the international space station. later this month he will follow in the steps of -- and travel to the iss on board russia's soyuz spacecraft. yui has been undergoing training to learn how to operate the craft. their fina

with the captain out of the cockpit, the flight data recorder shows lubitz set the plane's autopilot to 100 feet before going up again. >> he explored the plane's ability to make sure nobody would see him. >> reporter: according to the new report the selected altitude decreased to 100 feet for three seconds, then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet less than two minutes later, the selected altitude was 100 feet until it stabilized at 25,000 feet. the flight never left its scheduled path so air traffic control didn't notice the altitude changes. >> unless the plane is equipped to stream the data and they decide to stream the data of the aircraft performance from the flight and someone's monitoring it they wouldn't have noticed. and it was clear that the pilot didn't notice for another reason the front lab was inoperative. >> reporter: it appears it was a dry run for what he would do later that same morning on board the very same plane during flight 9525. lubitz waited until the captain left the cockpit, locked the door and set the plane's altitude to 100 feet. he directed th

. >> reporter: while the captain was gone over four minutes, first officer lubitz rapidly tested four different settings on the flight control unit. never giving the plane time to adjust them. >> he was testing a theory and going to see what he could do with the lack of experience in the aircraft. >> reporter: he had vastly less time in the a-320 than other pilots and this confirms earlier likes about the crash timeline. it found that as the same crew returned to dusseldorf two hours later, lubitz refused to open the door. the door buzzer was followed by the cockpit caller and similar to a person knocking on the cockpit door recorded on six occasions. less than two minutes after the knocking a muffled voice recorded on five occasions and in the final minute the oral warning, terrain, terrain, pull up pull up. >> the report documents how 3 1/2 months after lubitz had his flying on the condition he gets regular exams, a condition which was contingent on the pilot's honesty. bret? >> iran's foreign ministry says the cargo vessel seized by forces last month in the straight of hormuz will

tom, we already knew that andrea andreas lubitz had researched ways to commit suicide. now we are finding that he actually tested his final idea on a previous flight. what jumps out at you? >> well, i think the fact that these settings seem to be so erratic and so irregular. you know, down to 100 feet, up to 49,000 feet, and over the course of just a few seconds, it appears. it also appears that the settings were so fleeting that they may have gone undetected by the pilot and by the people on board that plane. but it's not clear that he ever hit engage when he set these settings on the autopilot, but he was literally just turning the dial and practicing. >> yeah, and when you talk about practicing, we want to draw a distinction between practicing or perhaps starting to carry out his plan and then changing his mind. there's no indication on that first flight, the previous flight, that he attempted to override the manual code system on the door and permanently lock out the pilot. >> yeah, and we presume that the pilot had left to go to the lav, which is exactly what happe

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it has since been revealed lubitz had suffered from periods of depression. lufthansa, the parent company of germanwings had no comment to today's report. the tragedy has already led to changes at many major airlines it is now mandatory for two people to be in the cockpit at all times. jessica? >> all right, thank you, janelle. >>> trying to rebuild trust tonight, the mayor of baltimore is asking the justice department to her police department. the mayor says the death of freddie gray last month and the violent protests that ensued showed a fractured protest between police and the community. gray died in police custody and now six officers are facing criminal charges in connection with his death. the justice department is already investigating the criminal case, but the mayor also wants the feds to look at the entire department. >> whatever they find we need to do to repair the relationship with the community and have a department that -- that our citizens deserve, i'm determined to get that done. >> the doj did a similar investigation in ferguson missouri af

but lubitz changed the setting back to what the air traffic controllers asked for. they didn't notice anything on this, and neither did the captain on the flight when he returned to the cockpit. >> to 21,000 feet to see that the plane is on the same track is going down to 21,000 feet. and its nothing strange neither for the control nor the captain. >> maybe we can compare the system to a cruise control in the car. if you quickly change the setting to let's say 10150 and back to 100 nobody else other than you would be able to recognize the setting. >> in fact, 70 setting the altitude to 100 back 100 is what he did and he never reset it. and it went into the mountain. as we know, all 150 people onboard were killed toy. >> lisa, many airlines may change in the wake of this crash, and can we expect further changes in the aftermath of these revelations? >> i would think that we will expect further changes. as you know, airlines may change it. for example the european airlines now require two people in the cockpit at all times and it was already a requirement here in the

in the first official report, since the march disaster, officials revealed 27 year-old andrees lubitz put the plane in dissent mode five times in four and a half minutes and then brought it up again just like during fatal flight that the captain appeared to have left the cockpit. >> the chief investigators say he could not speculate what was going on inside the german co pilot's mind when he set controls to the minimum setting of 100 feet. cockpit data shows the plane did in the drop sharply suggesting people on the flight from diesel do i have to barcelona might not have have noticed any change. just two hours later with the same crew and new passengers heading back to dusseldorf investigators say lubitz carried out the same maneuver but this time he crashed the plane, killing himself and 149 others. tina krause for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> well, big question that has not been answered is why lubitz did that however german authorities say did he research suicide method and cockpit door security on line a week before the crash. >>> prosecutors charged a massage therapist with sexu

we have been talking so much about how much planning lubitz put into this and how premedicated this is and this gives a strong indication there was a lot more planning involved than initially believed. >> i want to bring in our cnn aviation expert. good morning, mary. >> good morning, carol. >> i guess the most obvious question wouldn't air traffic controllers noticed the practice runs? >> no they wouldn't. what he was using to select 100 feet is internal to the plane, and it's an altitude selector and what he was doing was seeing if the plane could take the command, the plane is computerized and it may not have taken what he was putting in, and the hijackers in 2011 they thought that and that's why they picked boeings. >> i guess, finally, i just want to get your general thoughts on this because it's so shocking. i would imagine for the passengers aboard that practice flight they are feeling very lucky this morning? >> and probably just terrified that that went on when they were on the plane. what is interesting about this we have so much data, and all the data was available and it co