erik from getting in and interrupting that plan and saving the plane. we were told last night that in the closing moments of the cockpit voice recording before the crash you could hear somebody knocking to be let into the cockpit, and then knocking more insistently, and then eventually trying to pound the door down to get into the cockpit. we were told that last night. what french investigators announced today is that in addition to that noise of the pilot trying to get back in in addition to that noise in the very last instant before the crash you could hear what sounded to be the passengers on that erik screaming as they realized what the consequence were of this drama at the front of the cabin, this drama they could undoubtedly see happening at the cockpit door as they realized what the consequences of that drama were going to be for their speeding plane as it steered into those mountains. planes do not crash often. over the last ten years,