mary sciavo we want to reset. we have breaking news at cnn.d in barcelona at 10:25. bound for dusseldorf said to be a two-hour flight was lost and has gone down a half hour into the two-hour flight in the french alps. 146 passengers were-- 142 passengers and 6 crew members were on board. normally these are very color full logos. you may be familiar with the luftanza logo but apparently out of respect for those that have been lost and the memory of those on board, they have both changed their logos to reflect this. going to be a great time of mourning in many countries. we understand this was a low cost carrier between -- in europe. it was used by many especially leading up to the april holidays and the easter holidays. want to turn to our jim biderman. we learned, jim, 45 people are confirmed to have been from spain. we understand there's been communications now between francois hollande and the spanish king. what can you tell us? >> reporter: absolutely, michaela. in fact the spanish king just coincidentally happened to be in paris today on a

i want to bring in mary sciavo. we're also joined by cnn aviation analyst and former managing member of the ntsp peter golds. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> peter, i want to go over what we know. that plane took off 20 minutes late. at some point the pilot made a distress call. the plane descended and disappeared. let's talk about the plane. i heard rene marsh, it was 24 years old. is that too old? >> it really isn't. with today's maintenance practices where, you know periodically over the years they tear the plane down to the frame and rebuild it. the age of the aircraft is really not a big question mark now. 24 years is on the older side but it's not a -- it's not out of the ordinary. >> mary this was a routine flight. usually accidents as rene marsh indicated happen on takeoffs and landings so what does this crash tell you, that it happened while the plane was in the air? >> well, for accidents that happen while the aircraft is in the air, you can count them on the fingers of your hands. recent ones. everyt

. >> so that last point, as we bring in cnn's aviation analyst mary sciavo i want to challenge that lastnt, because we just are getting some new information about the runway conditions mary. in fact, we are learning that there was a pilot who landed around 9:00 this morning and, again, he mentioned the braking action the port authority spokesman there, he said that the last pilot to land reported as good his braking action but according to this new information, the pilot just before had reported it back as poor. now, that was around 9:00 this morning where the runway conditions are reported as poor. do they change very quickly, mary and at what point do you decide to halt air flights from landing? >> excellent question. the pilot that landed and reported the braking conditions as poor that is highly significant, because the federal aviation administration recognizes four words -- you know good acceptable i forget the second word poor and then nil, meaning none. so the pilot adequately reported and it's up to air traffic control, particularly if the pilots ask for that condition report th

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. >>> we want to bring in mary sciavo a cnn aviation analyst and former inspector-general of the department of transportation. good morning, mary. >> good morning. >> i know you've had a chance to look over the available data. what stands out to you about this crash? >> well to me what stands out are two things. one, that there was no radio communication new york city distress call no mayday no squawking of any trance ponder codes to indicate a problem was going on. no communication and there that there was no deviation in the path. once whatever happened at 38,000 feet occurred the plane continued on a descent with no change in direction. no deviation up and down. so you know based on prior crashes that i've worked on it certainly sounds like they either had some sort of a loss of compass tags of the pilots or a loss of the ability to steer, control, change the pitch or the attitude of the plane, if you will or the direction. so there have been accidents like this in the past but they're quite rare at this altitude. >> there were two other airports that were close to the flight path that i

we have our best here mary sciavo cnn aviation analyst and former inspector-general with the department of transportation and david soucie cnn safety analyst, was an faa safety inspector and tom fuentes, cnn law enforcement analyst, former fbi assistant director. we have the right team here. let's take a look at what we're doing here. we're trying to figure out what was the plane doing, david? what was going on with it mechanically. not now, now, it's about understanding what was heard on the voice recorder. how do you break down the questions raised? >> the questions raised right now is that if the pilot, if "new york times" report is true we have to qualify that but that the pilot had left the cockpit, the other pilot tried to evidently tried to lock him back out of the cockpit that has to be manually done. >> can that be done? and how? >> it can be done. there's a switch that you have that's controls that door. so it can be done by simply putting it in the locked position and not allowing the person to come in. there's some procedures that we'll go through as we go forward here. but