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good evening. tonight, breaking news. investigators scouring the home of flight 9525 co-pilot andreas lubitz. why did he deliberately crash a jet killing 149 innocent people. also breaking cnn learning he reprogrammed the autopilot in flight changing the setting from cruising altitude 38,000 feet to just 100 feet. the premeditated plan condemning everyone on board. this is according to new data. earlier today at one of the most shocking press conferences in memory prosecutors laid out an incredible sequence of events they said led to murder. they described the sounds on the cockpit voice recorder including the pilot yelling to get back inside. the passenger screams that filled the plane as 149 people realized what was happening. during it all, the prosecutor

says the co-pilot breathed evenly not responding. 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 out why. going into the co -pilot's background searching for a reason. diane that is outfront where the co-pilot lived.

we saw investigators leaving with boxes of evidence from lubitz's home. what did you see? what are they looking for? >> reporter: that's right. investigators at his flat and his parents house down the road behind me where he grew up and where he still lived from time to time hauling out boxes, anything they can sift from his computer records, for example, that could give some kind of indication as to why he did what he did and what exactly his psychological state was that made him bring that plane down. let's take a look. what we know of the life of andreas lubitz gives no hint of the man that would deliberately crash a jet liner. >> if one person kill himself and 149 people in other words should not be used sueicidesuicide. >> reporter: he seemed to live a normal life.

at the time of the crash 630 hours of night experience. only about 100 in an a320 the plane he crashed. his flight performance was perfect. there is one flag on his resume. >> there was an interruption with regard to the training. >> reporter: that interruption is said to have last for several months. something that's not uncommon. police removed evidence from the home where he lived with his parents. no one was willing to speak. at the nearby flight club where he was a member those who knew him describe a happy young man who loved to fly. >> he was a lot of fun even though he was perhaps sometimes a bit quiet. he was just another boy like so many others here. >> reporter: his portrait on social media is unremarkable. there are reports he had a

girlfriend. there's one vital piece of information about andreas that we do not know. >> we can only speculate about motives. we have no findings at all with regard to why the co-pilot did that. >> reporter: the parents traveled alongside other grieving families this morning thinking they were going to mourn the loss of their son and these revelations. you can only imagine what they must be feeling now alongside the grieving of everyone else. >> just impossible to imagine how they must feel. thank you very much. our panel of experts will be with us throughout the hour. we have richard quest. david soussi and anthony roman and jim clementi. richard, the press conferences today were shocking. usually, i don't mean to be light but they're designed to

give you as little information while being accurate. the french prosecutors, this was deliberate, this was the co-pilot. suicide is not the right word. using the word murder. what did you make of these press conferences? >> i was sitting just there. it was extraordinary because coming to the day with the new york times report overnight. we didn't know whether that was true. no disrespect to the times but we come in with us all ready to say -- >> this was the report. the pilot was locked out of the cockpit. that's all we knew. >> we came into the day thinking we've got to be prepared to roll back on this. we've have to be prepared to go in the opposite direction. the prosecutor starts and then you have the ceo comes out and says i'm speechless. we have to tell you that the aircraft has been crashed by one of our own pilots. >> yes, they did not mince words. they were not afraid to say it. >> that's what was so amazing with how this was handled with

such stark contrast with any other accident. the way it's been handled from the beginning and the way the prosecutor gave his representation preliminary report. they have been very factual as in keeping with the german tradition. it's very factful and informative. we know everything we need to know. >> we try to everything we need to know. they are searching for what could be a motive. there's no trail on social media. have you heard of a pilot doing something like this? >> not a pilot. i did have an accident one time. it was a small airplane where it was very very controlled and this person had planned out his on suicide taken a hammer took hammer and then did his deed and intentfully drove it down. that was many years ago. i'm trying to put this together because that one i was personally involved with.

there's others i wasn't. how could this happen? it's so different than anything else. this methodical you have to wonder if this generation has a different thought process about how those go or a different affect on how the environment is basic affecting them and how they think. >> it wasn't just that he decided to commit suicide and murder 149 people at the same time. it was that he purposely reset the auto-pilot and he took ten minutes to do it. he didn't go in a dive. it was slow. it was planned. it was controlled. people are screaming worried about dying and he is sitting there in silence continuing. what could possibly explain that? >> clearly it was a deliberate act and he had plenty of time to undo that if he wanted to. this is a suicide. he wanted to do it in a much bigger way than taking himself out. he wanted to do it in way that took the lives of all the

passengers who's lives he was responsible for. if he would just trying to do this on the spur of the moment he had plenty of time to unthink that undo this and stop it. clearly, he was dedicated to doing this very determined. >> anthony, from what we know today, how premeditated does this seem to be? he reset the auto-pilot. he did not care about the screams he heard and the pounding on the door. the pilot got up to go to the bathroom. it's a short flight. it seems premeditated and in the other sense he seized the moment because the opportunity arose. >> it's very difficult to tell whether it was premeditated or he had suicidal thoughts or religious ideation or some type of labor dispute that was annoying him. very difficult to say.

people know. this was not a secret. his friends knew his colleagues knew. i'm uncomfortable with this about him but i don't think it's dangerous. when the investigators start putting all that together, they will have a wonderful co manymposite painting of the full risk. >> there's always the chance of he was just waiting for the moment. >> he was ready and the moment presented itself on this flight. >> the captain decides he's not going to go to the bathroom on that leg. they have already flown the leg to barcelona. he didn't do it on that one. he's obviouslily the pilot flying on the way back up. the captain could have said i'm going to the bathroom or i'm not.

a premeditated or prethought perhaps but relying on the opportunity of being able to execute his plan. >> yet, being able to withstand the ten minutes of the pounding on the door and then the passengers. he knew what he was doing. he could hear them. >> you couldn't do that without being mentally removed somehow. there's something about the disconnect. there's something about this disassociation with this situation with what's happening. this calm breathing. you picture that. >> that's what they could hear. he was calm. >> very strange situation. >> thanks to all of you. next, we'll go inside an airbus a-320. we'll show you the door and the switch used to keep out the cockpit. that's to save lives. what happens when it's the passengers who need protection from the pilots. he interare you positiverupted his pilot training. that could be crucial.

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prosecutors reprogrammed the plane's autopilot to crash. he changed the cruising altitude from 38,000 feet to just 100 feet. the cockpit voice recorder indicates the co-pilot locked the captain out. he then ignored screaming and pounding of the cockpit door putting the plane that steady descent and crashing it into a mountain. how was this pilot able to pull off this horrific act? >> reporter: he cannot imagine why a pilot would do this. bugs forscythe knows how. a retired military commercial pilot he says he's flown thousands of ours in the a320 cockpit. >> normal lock and unlock. >> reporter: he's used the switch hundreds of times. >> the unlock you have to pull up and hold it. a light comes on and says the

door is open. if i release it it goes back to normal position. >> norm means it's locked. >> norm is locked. >> reporter: according an airbus operations video there's a key pad entry on the outside that allows entry if you know the code. if the person inside the cockpit switches it to lock, the key pad won't work for five minutes. there's another override that goes beyond five minutes. >> i can also override the key pad and hold it in the lock position and now he cannot use the key pad or enter the door at all. it's locked. >> no one can get in? >> no one can get in. >> to keep your co high lot out, what do you do? >> i just hold the lock. he cannot get in. >> can you manually fly this and hold the lock button? >> easy. >> that's a very purposeful act? >> very much so. >> pull up. >> again and again we through

through the se narcenarios. >> what does that suggest to you as far as his determination? >> he was very determined. that was his goal. he has a mission or a goal to kill himself and everybody on board. we deal with terrorists and people that aren't supposed to be in the cockpit. if the person is supposed to be in the cockpit, that's what's scary. >> reporter: 150 people lost in this air disaster. the who, the how we now know. the why, far from known. >> reporter: what is so clear after being in the simulator and doing the path that the plane took is how much time he had. how much time he had to think about it. how many alarm went off. how many warnings he had and how easily he could have reversed course. erin. >> that's incredible tragedy. thank you very much.

showing you how that cockpit is designed to be safe from a high jesus christ jacker. how was the co-pilot able to keep the captain out. stephanie, you're on the other side here from that pilot who was trying to get in and then he came up against that reenforced door. >> right. we're inside of a cockpit like the a320. you have the door right here. it's a slim door. you've got this peephole. you can even see outside as a pilot. i want to go outside because i want to show you about this door. let's take a look. when you get outside and take a look at this door you can see just how thick it is. this is one of those changes that came along after 9/11. one of those things to make this door indestructible to make it solid and hard there's other ways. you've got the lock up here that the pilot could use to lock somebody out as well. if you take a look at the door from the outside, you can see

there's not a lot of ways to get in there. there's the key pad that you just heard about. overall, not a lot of ways to get in there if the pilot wants to keep you out. that's the key thing here. this door is all about keeping bad people out, but there's nothing about this door that helps if the person who is going to be detrimental to the plane is one of the pilots. erin. >> the bottom line it seems like there's no way i would imagine towards the end they are trying to break down the door, hit the door with anything it's going to withstand all of that right? >> yeah, that's the idea behind the doors. you couldn't get through. there's nothing a pilot can do on the outside of this. if you take a look besides the fact of how strong this door is and there's not a lot of ways to compromise it there's cameras. the pilot inside can see who is out there. everything is geared toward protecting the pilots inside. everything about this door is built that way.

>> everything about that door and the system. thank you. our aviation experts are back. david, we have now seen how the system was created on the inside of the door the outside door showing how it's so fortified. main question i have for you, after 9/11 in the united states all doors had to be fortified like this. in the last few minutes when the pilot is doing anything to take to save everything would this plane had the fortified doors that american planes had? >> yes, it would have. >> it's going to be have that door? >> that's correct. a specific country saying you have to do this in our country, they wouldn't have that but this

is for the manufacturer. the certification process was extensive. that door has to with stand a grenade. >> this was a 1990 model plane. it would have been retrofitted. >> it would have. >> you saw stephanie show how strong that door is would you agree when they're doing anything they can to save their lives there would be no way to break it down? >> it was very little they can do. it's a ballistic door. it can handle large explosion metal piercing bullets. they were doomed. >> what's going on in the mind of the pilot in those moments? he first knocks on the door so he thinks he doesn't hear him. at first he think it's a mistake. >> i'm sure it was confusion because he didn't expect this to happen but then he would first be thinking about his

responsibility to the passengers. all those people on his ship they're lives he's responsible for. i'm shire as the seconds wound down he was thinking about the people that he loved his family and friends and the tragedy that was about to happen to all the people behind him. i'm sure it was a terrible time for him even though he was makingmake ing heroic efforts to break the door down which was put there to protect him. >> i think everything watching and reading this story is wonder if there was anything to stop it. they are able to determine he set the auto-pilot. they're able to determine that it would seem like a lot of that was just nobody was looking because nobody would expect it but they might have known at the time it was happening but they wouldn't have been able to do anything. >> nobody could do anything at all. the data that renee is talking about has to be extracted.

>> it's not like it's feeding realtime realtime? >> no. you have to go into the data. it's in the lines of code. you have to look for it. what you have here is david's experienced this you have a situation that was created in terms of 9/11. then there was a solution. 000 there's another problem as a result of that solution. it just keeps elevating the issue. this whole thing was designed to stop somebody getting in but somebody has to fly the plane. a pilot, a human being has the fly it. now you've got the issue of how do you deal with it if the person on the inside has gone rogue. this is the balancing act that constantly has to be taking place in the aviation industry. >> that's what safety is. >> it's hard because you program it now for something that

happens and you keep doing that. >> it's a simple solution. the united states has introduced that solution. you introduce a second person into the cockpit during the time. >> you go to the bathroom someone else comes in. >> no one should be alone. thanks to all of you. the co -pilot trained in the united states and germany. he took an extended break during his training. why? we're live outside the fa tillcileityfacility. ady been. where's the fun in that? it's time to find someplace new. book the hotel you want with the flight you want and we'll find the savings to get you there. major: here's our new trainer ensure active heart health. heart: i maximize good stuff like my potassium and phytosterols which may help lower cholesterol. new ensure active heart health supports your heart and body so you stay active and strong. ensure, take life in.

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hour hunting for new clues as to why the co-pilot of flight 9525 took that plane down. today they searched his apartment as well as his parents home looking for any hint of a possible motive. we're learning about the 28-year-old including his time spent in the united states. sara is on the ground in phoenix. that's where he did some of his flight training. what have you been able to learn about how long he was in the

united states? why he was here and what he have doing? >> reporter: we know from a spokesperson with lufthansa that there was training and here in arizona. the co-pilot did come here to train. you can see over my right shoulder some of the planes used for training. we know he had to be here for six months. according to the spokesperson that's required for him to get his license and fly. that is the reason why he was here. he came here for work. you might wonder why arizona. why would you have to come here from germany? arizona is home to a lot of training facilities. you don't have the weather issues that the rest of the world generally deals with. they have open skies. you can train almost every day of the year. we do not know from the facility itself exactly where he trained. they are not speaking to us today. we know they have their flags flying at half staff.

it's the german flag, a lufthansa flag off flying at half staff here today obviously if memory of those who have lost their lives in this terrible tragedy. we do know that he came here to train as do other pilots from around the world. erin. >> i guess the question i have is he was there for six months because that's the length of the training program but he didn't do that consecutively. he took a break. that could be significant. do you have any idea as to why he took that break? >> reporter: that's one of the questions that investigators are really trying focus in on and figure out. we do not know the why. we know that he did take a break in his training. we don't know if he took break in training here or in germany. we know he finished and he was 100% ready to go according to the ceo. he passed medical tests and technical tests and he was a

full flejdged pilot and take the reigns. investigators have to figure out what that is and if that has any link to any other issues he may have been having which may have caused him to do what investigators think he may have down which is down the plane. >> thank you very much. fred you spoke with the ceo of lufthansa. were you able to get any insight to him, as to the motive? >> reporter: it's a interesting because he says he has no explanation for it. he said one of the things that lufthansa has prided itself on is the fact they are so good at evaluating their pilots. he said we always managed to pick the best people and train them in the best possible way. there are checks to see if people are mentally fit to fly aircraft. they go through a rigorous

process. they have to do multi-tasking operations under very hard duress to make sure they don't collapse under difficult situations. he said it's unclear how all of this could have happened. let's listen in to what he had to say. >> the pilot passed all his tests. all his medical exams. we have a reporting system where crew can report without being punished their own problems or report problems of others without any kind of punishment. that hasn't been used either in this case. all the safety nets we're so proud of here have not worked in this case. >> reporter: he does say he still does believe in those safety checks that they have. he says they have been working for the past decades. he also acknowledged that in light of what happened with andreas doing what he did, they

will re-evaluate to see whether the pilots are mentally fit to fly. >> thank you very much with that interview. richard quest is with me. this break in his training of coursely they're grasping at anything they can because people didn't see this coming. that break could be significant. >> there's a rumor in german newspapers that some neighbor said he was down and may have been depressed. we have not gotten confirmation. that's one of the things out there in germany tonight. >> the ceo said all the safety nets have not worked in this case. that's terryifyterrifying. he said he was 100% fit and ready. obviously it was the opposite. are pilots going through real psychological testing? >> no. it's part of an assessments. in the u.s. questions are asked of them.

>> how hard are the questions? have you felt like killing yourself and felt down? >> absolutely. >> one knows if one says yes you'll not get the job. >> absolutely. he's been there all his life. he's a pilot. he's only been ceo a couple of years. many people in the industry tonight they are like people who suddenly been told the world is flat. something that has happened elsewhere in the world or an odd case but not of major airline like lufthansa that finds a young, first officer has basically committed mass murder. they are absolutely the industry i can tell you is in shock over this. he not only trained, he passed.

he got his certification from the faa. arizona is the home along with florida of air training. we do not -- we cannot it's inexplicable what's happened. next fbi is involved looking at his background to his religion. what inspired him to do this. officials calling the crash similar to the egypt air murder/suicide that happened soon after take off from jfk. this isn't the first time a pilot has taken down a full passenger jet.

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u.s. e-mail services for instance. that's also a role for the nsa and intelligence services. there's a lot of controversy over in europe about the fact that nsa scoops up a lot of communications in europeans in the normal course of what they do. i bet right now the german investigators are pretty happy that the nsa might have some of this stuff. what they want to look at is to see if there's anything that can show up from recent communications in the last month or couple of days that might shed light on his mental state or if he's been in contact with anybody the u.s. is concerned about. >> there's a will the of questions. i was talking about this about the gap in his flight training. we know six months of that took place in the united states. richard reporting talking about a report that he was depressed in german papers. will the fbi be able to shed anymore light on what could be

very very crucial thing? >> yeah. the mental state is definitely what they're interested in. going to that flight training center in arizona is something the fbi plans to do to try to interview anybody who might have had contact with him, anybody who was perhaps training him to see if they can say whether he showed any signs back then and whether there were any red flags missed because that's definitely one of the questions that investigators, even german airline wants to know now which is was there something they missed. >> thank you very much. the retired fbi profiler. jim, what's amazing here is how little we know about the co-pilot. he liked to go to disco. he ran marathons. there's reports he had a girlfriend but we don't know who she is. we know nothing. do you think personal issues are a likely motive? >> yeah i think in the case that's the only thing. there are no indications of

anything else. what needs to be done, what the fbi will be conducting along with the other investigators is what's called a psychological autopsy. they break him down psychologically and find the different parts of his life whether relationships, broken relationship family friends, interests. all that stuff will come into play and they will build a picture of what he's really like inside his head. >> the prosecutor today, the word used was emphatically. he refused to comment on his religion. is that relevant? for his religion all together people ask that question for obvious reasons or relevant they won't comment. >> it's relevant it's part of the psychological autopsy. we have to know what his believes are. what his faith is in what it isn't in. they were trying to bring it away from automatically thinking he was a particular religion which has terroristic ties. i think that's what they're trying to avoid until they know. >> possible motives.

you have religion, politics, workplace anger. do any of those seem more likely than another to you? >> i think right now, i think we're talking about personal issues. i think he's 28 years old. that age he's not, he's an adult but not a really kpooernsed adult. what you're looking at something to do with relationships in his life. either a broken relationship. i think he went out in a grandiose way to prove himself bigger than everybody thought he was. >> thank you very much. nerksxt, the crash bears striking resemblance to another crash. is the mideast on the verge of a major war? hat is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze

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crash of 9525. the pilot reprogrammed the flight settings during the flight changing altitude from cruising at 38,000 feet to 100 feet. intentionally setting it on a deadly path. that's according to new data from flight radar 24. this isn't the first time a fatal crash of commercial airliner is blamed on a captain or co-pilot. shasta dar lington is outfront. >> reporter: as investigators piece together the final moment of flight 9525 there's haunting similarities to egypt air flight 990.

october 1999 boeing 767 departed jfk airport in new york. minutes later, plunging into the waters off the coast of massachusetts. >> 767 in my airspace. we lost everything. >> reporter: left the cockpit to use the bathroom. the voice recorder captured co-pilot repeating in arabic i rely on god. no emergency call transmitted. egyptian authorities say it was a mechanical failure. a rejection of the national transportation safety board's conclusion the co-pilot intentionally crashed the plane. in many countries, pilot haves to prove their mental health for the license but throughout the careers, mostly rely on self-diagnosis. >> we police ourselves as colleagues. if we know that we're having stress at home we may want to just call in sick for that trip. >> reporter: when a silk air flight crashed in 1987 killing

all 104 people on board, the boeing 737 fell so fast it broke the speed of sound. indonesian authorities ruled out suicide but the ntsb said a deliberate crash was the likely cause. citing that the cockpit voice recorder was intentionally disconnected and controls set to nose down position. less than a year and a half ago, a smoldering debris. flight 470 went down in namibia killing all 33 people aboard. officials calling it adeliberate crash by the pilot and malaysia flight 370. after more than a year of searching and investigating, what happened to the plane, still a mystery. pilot suicide one of the many theories floated as the cause of its disappearance. >> what's amazing is after all of these incidents, there is still no real mental health

screening. there is nothing rigorous other than some as richard was saying some questions. do you have suicidal thoughts where you know the answers would be. while pilots don't see an epidemic of suicidal tendencies in pilots, there needs to be more monitoring not just physical health but mental health long after they've passed that initial background check and the initial evaluations. that isn't happening in most countries. >> in this case we really just don't know what happened at this point, but it's supposedly could have been something to do with depression. that's one possibility. it also could have been something more psychopathic which again, none of that was picked up on screening and some of those cases, those are people very skilled at evading detection. >> exactly. this is where the investigation will go now. and it's really turning into less of a technical investigation and more of a personal investigation. a criminal investigation of this co-pilot. >> shasta thank you very much. and outfront next breaking news. saudi fighter jets pounding

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breaking news. saudi war planes pounding yemen with 150,000 ground troops ready to invade. that's a huge number and a new front in the middle east war with major implications for america. right now, yemen in chaos allowing isis and al qaeda to flourish. barbara starr at the pentagon tonight. barbara, this is not just saudi arabia. nine other middle eastern countries involved. not just americans but arabs. this is a big deal isn't it? >> reporter: it is. sunni arab nations growing increasingly nervous in the all important persian gulf about the growth of iran's influence. iran now backing those shia rebels in yemen. on one side iran's influence. the saudi arabia backing the beleaguered yemen government and stepping into this now as the war planes continue in saudi arabia builds a coalition of

other sunni arab nations. the u.s. military at the orders of the white house jumping in with some assistance. intelligence sharing from satellites offering assistance on aerial refueling. even offering assistance on mission planning to plan those aerial strike missions. you're seeing a lot of damage on the ground inside of yemen. the potential for large numbers of civilian casualties but the saudis are very nervous. this has put iran right on their doorstep and is posing a real problem in the region. intentions definitely growing, erin. >> the other side of this so in a lot of ways have a crucial proxy war going on. when you talk about the united states involvement, barbara the united states fighting this war against isis but the president resolutely saying no ground troops go in. will the united states consider troops or air strikes in this case given how crucial yemen is to counterintelligence and how significant isis and al qaeda

are there? >> reporter: i think at this point the answer would likely be that the administration would not want to do that. in fact we know that right now, as the u.s. offers that aerial refueling, the aerial intelligence no manned aircraft over yemen. it is very dicey airspace right now. the saudis partially conducting these air strikes so they can control the airspace. the worry is the hew rebels. try to reestablish military control in the air. unlikely to see the u.s. go in, they really want to make this, you know the new policy is make the nations in the region take the front line responsibility. offer help offer assistance but they'll have to do the heavy lifting themselves. erin? >> barbara, thank you. saudi putting 150,000 troops something never thought would

happen. a significant development in the fight against isis and al qaeda. thank you so much for joining us. be sure to set your dvr to record "outfront" to watch us anytime, any day. i'll be back here same time tomorrow night. anderson cooper 360 continues our coverage right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. it has been a difficult day in the final moments of germanwings 9525. we know there was no sound from the co-pilot who sat at the controls of the airbus a 320 as it head into the mountainside. no sound, no last minute prayers, no sound but his breathing picked up by one of the microphones in the cockpit and the sound of the captain banging on the door trying to get in and the screams of passengers who knew their lives were about to end. we try to make sense of the news and the sickening notion a single person responsible for taking down this flight and murdering 149 other men, women, and children. authorities now