Victims will be digesting today. And that is in the last minute or so on the audio recording in the cockpit, screams can be heard. And the prosecutor believes these are screams of the passengers as they realize what is happening in the last minute of the descent. He says death was instantaneous. He says he doesnt consider this a suicide. He says how can it be suicide if 150 people are aboard that aircraft . This was an intentional act, an intentional act to bring the plane down. It is so so devastating to think about those final moments and, actually all of those ten minutes of what was going on onboard that flight. Thank you for the update. Carl penhaul, joins us by phone, he was in that News Conference in marseilles when the prosecutor made all the revelations. Whats the latest there . Reporter well the french prosecutor dropping an absolute bombshell in that press conference. Perhaps he had to come clean with the media after press leaks suggested part of this information overnight. But nevertheless many journalists left open mouthed and shaking their heads. The core message that the prosecutor delivered was that the copilot crashed this plane in a deliberate act. He said the prosecutor said having read a transcript of the cockpit voice recorder said for the first 20 minutes, that flight was absolutely normal. A conversation between the pilot and copilot being carried out in german was cordial and professional. It was only when the pilot began to brief the copilot on the routine about how to defend into the airport that the prosecutor said that the copilot only brief responses, quite calm quite quiet. It was after that the pilot got up and left the cockpit. We dont know why. And at that point, the Prosecutor Says that the copilot automatically locked the door took Manual Control of the levers, the prosecutor also says that the copilot dialed in the descent and then proceeded to crash the plane. Now, also judging by the information from the cockpit voice recorder the prosecutor said that the plane bumped on part of the mountain first, deflected off, and then made the final crash. And in the last few instance on the cockpit voice recorder you hear the passengers scream. They appear to have been aware of what was going on. And throughout the last eight minutes, also according to prosecutors, the pilot making repeated efforts to get back into that cockpit. First of all, communicating with a copilot via video intercom. And then banging on the door. And in the final moments, trying to kick in the armored door to try to get back into the cockpit, all to no avail. The other thing, according to the cockpit voice recorder there is no sign that the copilot was unwell. He said there was nothing to indicate that the copilot was suffering a stroke or a heart attack saying that his breathing sounded normal throughout. Back to you. All right, karl penhaul. Theres so much to process here. We want to turn to our panel, Richard Quest, our cnn aviation correspondent. Cnn safety analyst, former faa safety inspector. Tom fuentes also joins us a former former assistant director for the fbi. And mary ill begin with you. So often, we are so hopeful that the voice recorder the cockpit voice recorder will be recovered recovered. They have found it it has revealed a tremendous amount of information, first and foremost, that this was, indeed, deliberate. Well and certainly the french vea, ive worked previous cases where they were the Investigative Agency and quite competent. And at the press conference yesterday when the investigator was asked from the vea about those last eight minutes, he seemed shaken clearly hed heard something but he would not comment. I suspect that this is correct and what they have revealed to us will turn out to be the case because its the prosecution. But at this point, this is a carolina criminal investigation. The vea will continue their work, the recovery will continue. Its vitally important to grab every piece of criminal evidence. When Something Like this would happen you send all your criminal agents out to start grabbing information, facebook pages, social media, everything at the airline, all the records. This is a major criminal investigation now. All right, mary. So were going to need more information. We heard from the prosecutor. That was big. Were going to hear from the ceo of german wings. Thats going to happen at 9 30 eastern standard time. We know we have our viewers in the u. S. And around the world to consider right now. Again, thats 9 00 eastern standard time. 9 30 eastern standard time. Of course well take that full here. But lets get back to the main consideration right now. What happened is now much less in doubt according to the french prosecutor. The big question is now why they believe this happened. And richard, what is the first main clue that takes this prosecutor in the direction of a deliberate act in his own words . The initiation of the descent. The way in which he put it he dialed in the descent. More important than the captain being locked out . Yes. Because . Because the way the prosecutor put it he first of all put it in terms of the first officer took advantage of the captain leaving the cockpit. He then he says locks the door. He doesnt respond. No word, not a word not a single word. I wrote them down. No response silence, and he dials in the descent. So its one thing just to lock the guy out, its another thing to initiate the process thats going to take the plane to the ground. Another detail that we just heard from karl penhaul. I want to ask you if you know about this, david, with uz that the pilot was trying to communicate with the copilot in the cockpit. Once he was locked outside, he said, through a video intercom. Is there video where they can see each other . I thought previously because of the year of the aircraft it didnt have it. But its been retro fitted with it if thats what the case is there. When youre outside, you can see inside the cockpit. Probably just attracting his attention. That takes off the table for me the guy didnt know how to get in the cockpit. If he didnt know and the copilot was doing his normal job, he wouldve looked at the video and said oh let me let you in. You can see outside the cockpit. Another interesting point is what they learned and this for the people just joining us now, the copilot was alive until impact heard breathing, which seems an odd thing to hear or listen for. But its important, right, richard . Because they hear him breathing, quote unquote normally. One would think youll get short of breath panic a little bit, make some noise, Say Something, ask for help. Theres four or five microphones, one on the headset of the first officer. Yes, youre listening and what he said is the breathing was normal. It was not the breathing of somebody who was having a stroke or a heart attack or basically, a medical emergency. Tom, let me bring you in tom fuentes. You had an interesting insight into what doesnt seem common sense about this with breathing. We, as were discussing, would think wed be very panicked if we were in this kind of situation if we were at all conscious. You say, not necessarily, why . Well what i say is that the person has made the decision. And once the final decision is made to commit what is going to be ha mass murder along with his own personal suicide, often times we see just a calmness come over that person. Decisions made, theres no more strife. No more turmoil, mentally with them. Theyve decided what theyre going to do and calmly go about doing it. The prosecutor also said tom he said i dont see this as terrorism, yet, in part probably yielding to. He just learned this information. His guys are just digging in. But we also havent heard from any groups right . Usually they would like to somewhat early on take credit for Something Like this in their own perverse way. What are the first few steps they have to take to figure out what this was about for the copilot . Well theyll go about what they would have been already doing. And that is getting the copilots any social media postings phone calls, emails, contact with friends, neighbors, family to try to determine if theres any affiliation with a group or any desire to be afailuatedafail aaffiliated with a group. Or whether theres any signs of personal mental problems or personal strife in his life. Maybe going through a divorce, maybe about to be fired. You know any number of things that could be going on for that person personally to make them want to do this. But, again, theyre not committing just suicide as the prosecutor mentioned. Theyre committing mass murder. And id like to add one more thing. The french system of justice, unlike the u. S. If this was in the United States the carolina investigation involving crime aboard an aircraft the fbi has the jurisdiction. In the french system the prosecutor runs the investigation or the investigative magistrate. So they direct the police. We appreciate that. We know there are some differences when youre looking at these international issues. Now, i want to talk about, speaking what tom brought up about looking at the background the digital footprint of this pilot. The copilot. It occurs to me. The talk about this was a situation that you took advantage of. The pilot left the cockpit. It almost seems like a crime of opportunity. I would imagine ive been on twohour flights when ive never seen the pilot leave the cockpit. You cant necessarily plan that that theyre going to leave. Well and it was a short, and relatively speaking a short flight. But in the United States of america, pilots can bid on certain routes and different pilots depending upon their seniority. And seniority number. And some pilots say i bid to fly with this one. There was a recent accident in the u. S. Where theres a lot of information that came out that pilots were bidding not to fly with a particular pilot, in that case because of skills and personality, not because of anything criminal tendencies or anything like that. Didnt mean to suggest that. It would be interesting to know what german swing system is as to who gets paired with who in the flight. Usually theres a problem if you pair a very very senior officer with a very junior. But here 6,000 hours is not that senior. 600 hours is very junior. But well want to know what their system was for who gets paired with whom. And also the most important thing i want to hear in this press conference is what was their policy of allowing someone to be alone in that cockpit . That does not happen in most major aviation nations. And maybe the copilot asked the pilot to go out and get him something and we dont know what the scenario was to make him leave. But one of the most heart wrenching things is to hear the prosecutor say, yes, in fact the, passengers did know what was happening because it was captured on the cockpit voice recorder. He said thats something that the families of course wanted to know if their loved ones suffered. And he had to answer to them. They only knew he said in the final moments because it was it was not a rapid descent. In the final moments, he knew they knew because he could hear their screaming. And theres nothing one can add to the weve all flown, weve all been on descent. We can now imagine what or maybe we cant imagine because the horror of it, of what that descent would have been like when you realize that its early, its continuing theres been no anonsment, and the ground is coming towards. Right. And to keep what we dont know in perspective, and theres plenty of that by the way. From the interest of the humanity of the situation and the dignity of those who lost their lives on that plane, i think it was good that the prosecutor was light on detail about what he knows about what those passengers dealt with. What he tells the families, thats something separate. Our fascination right now should be on why this happened and thats what were doing this morning. Theres a lot of information coming in thats new. Two Additional Press conferences scheduled. Were going to take both of them here live at cnn. Itll be continuing coverage of this remarkable turn of events in crash 9525. Lets continue our coverage right now. We have our man Anderson Cooper in the chair for you in new york. Anderson . Yeah, thanks very much. Good morning, everyone. I want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. We are following the breaking news with the jawdropping development. Stunning developments in the crash of flight 9525. Just minutes ago, a lead investigator wrapping up a News Conference confirming the greatest fears, the crash which killed 150 people appears to have been a deliberate act. Just as horrifying it was carried out by a copilot locked alone inside the cockpit, intentionally locked alone. Right now, were seeing first images of police at the home of that copilot in germany. These early findings glean from the flight voice recorder. Heres the french prosecutor heading the investigation. At that time the copilot is alone at the controls. That is when hes alone. The copilot manipulates the flight Monitoring System controls to accelerate the descent of the aircraft. In the last eight minutes, this aircraft went from maybe 10,000 12,000 meters 30,000 feet to virtually 2,000 meters and the mountain it hit is between 1,500 and 2,500 meters high. So he used this button for to lose the altitude for reasons that are totally unknown at the moment. But which could be analyzed as a deliberate attempt to destroy the aircraft. We hear several requests from the pilot asking to have access to the cockpit using what is called a cockpit call system, which is intercommunication system. He identifies himself, but theres no response from the copilot. So he knocked to ask for the door to be opened and there was no response from the copilot. And then we hear a noise of breathing in the cabin, and we will hear that until the final impact. I reckon that the victims only became aware of what was going on at the very last moment. Let me finish. Because on the tape the sound that were hearing, the screams are only in the very last moments before impact. So we can conclude that in all circumstances, its deliberate. At the moment i consider it to be deliberate. First of all, refusing entry to the cockpit. Second maneuvering the lever for loss of altitude weve said not so much but it is 1,000 meters a minute as if he was landing. Were above the mountains, arent we . So and theres no other airport, which could receive an airbus 320 anywhere near. Two deliberate acts he was talking about by the copilot refusing reentry of the pilot into the cockpit, though the pilot himself was trying to break the door down yelling trying to get in over the course of the time the eight minutes it took to crash that plane as well as the steering of the plane, the initiating of the descent of the aircraft. We are expecting a lot more information in about 15 minutes or so. Were going to hear from the airline, and well carry, obviously, that News Conference live. But first, i want to go to our karl penhaul at the News Conference. Hes on the phone from marseilles france. Really a stunning development. We got wind of this last night, carl with the New York Times first breaking the news based on one source. But at that point, it wasnt clear whether perhaps, the copilot had been incapacitated some way through a medical emergency. Now, the french prosecutor staying very clearly this was a deliberate act. Yeah absolutely anderson. In many ways the french prosecutor was forced to come out and give an open and frank press conference because of the overnight leaks. In fact, the prosecutor said hed only seen the final and full translated transcript of the cockpit voice recorder. An action to kind of contain the damage from those leaks. But when he did make his announcements, it was a bombshell. And it left many of the journalists standing here in the press room with their mouths open and shaking their head. And the prosecutor was category categoric. And didnt mince his words that he believes this was a deliberate act by the copilot. When asked if the copilot couldve fallen unwell after the pilot had left the cockpit, again, he was pretty cat goregoric on that as well. He said the cockpit voice recorder transcript suggested that the copilot continued to breathe normally and said there was nothing indicative of the copilot suffering a stroke or as a heart attack. Thats why hes concluding that the copilot carried out a deliberate act to take Manual Control of levers, to dial in the rate of descent, and deliberately crash the aircraft. Also he was saying about how the aircraft crashed. He said if it came down only in the last moments do you hear passengers begin to scream at that point. They realized what was going on. At that same time, you hear the pilot desperate, trying to try to tear down the door back into the cockpit because karl ive got to interrupt you. Were going to take the german transport minister speaking now. Lets listen. We have close contact and also questions of the accident with regard to conclusions. Actively helping with these questions and cooperate inging. In the coming days and hours well need this good conversation in order to investigate properly and then have the appropriate conclusions. The French Public prosecutor explained today in detail a lot. And this is, indeed, shocking. Are there concrete surveillance operations for pilots . Especially with regard to the copilot that there possibly could have been details. Of course there are medical examinations and other examinations of pilots at any time. These are data which are made available to lufthansa. Data that the prosecution service, of course will request. But we the federal ministry, do not have access to that. Minister do you have any clues with regard to the door to the cockpit, any analysis . Any more details . The technology of the doors was as follows. There was always the opportunity to open a door from the inside. And if that is not possible then you can open the door from the the outside via a code. Otherwise, the door is blocked. Explicitly. This procedure has been introduced. And a lot of aircraft have been refitted in that way to make aircraft safer. Did the copilot say anything . Do you have any more statements . When the captain, the pilot left the cockpit, that was when the flight reach a certain altitude. At this point in time we do not have any details with regard to the time when the captain left the cockpit if there had been any conversations. The French Public prosecutions are investigating. There were no talks, no words, we do not have any knowledge of that. Again, we are awaiting a press conference anticipated about six minutes from now, luftaluft luftansa joining the press conference though they seem to be as surprised as anyone. Last night lufthansa when we contacted them based on the leaks to the New York Times. Some sort of emergency in the cockpit that one of the pilots have been locked out. They said they had no information on this. Well be waiting to hear what they have to say. This morning, i want to bring in our panelist Richard Quest is with us. Cnn safety analyst. Also cnn Law Enforcement analyst tom fuentes and Airline Safety expert john ransom. Richard, stunning developments. And we talk about this an awful lot last night. But we are starting to learn new details and the screams of the passengers in the final minutes with the silence from inside the cockpit. The calm steady breathing of the copilot. I made a list of what he said. He took the prosecutor told us. He took the copilot the first officer took advantage of the captain leaving. He locked the door. He started the descent. Were getting numbers this morning from the auto pilot showing how he started that descent. He moved the autopilot from 38,000 feet i consider it deliberate. Never have we heard anything of this magnitude. It was believed to be by one of the pilots. But this not an immediate crash, this was a relatively slow descent when you think about it. Eight minutes. The fact it was controlled all the way down. Just think about that maneuver. To know with intent what youre doing. We do not know at this point, which the marseilles prosecutor was not able to address, which no doubt is now on the top of their list is a motive here. The motive of this copilot. Was this something that the copilot 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, theyd 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 didnt share that with anybody, hes going to take that information to his grave. And were not going to know. It is possible and the prosecutor said theres 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 dont know. I mean thats just premature. They dont know yet. Theyll do obviously, a tremendous extensive investigation to look into his background to try to figure out what may what he may have been thinking. What motive there may be. At this point, they just dont have that. And dont want to speculate. Standing by outside where the german wings press conference is going to be taking place. Fred you and i talked about 12 hours or so ago on my broadcast last night. You had gotten a statement from lufthansa which was them not denying the New York Times initial reporting on this. But essentially saying they did not have any information. Clearly now they have this information from the prosecutor. Do we know when they were informed . Well they were certainly informed at some point late last night. I spoke to one of the representatives for lufthansa early this morning or after we got here. And he said you have to understand that the situation has now changed for us as well. It does appear that at the time we were broadcasting yesterday, they might not have had the full information or at least might not have been in a position yet to disclose the full information at that point in time. Now, of course, we do expect to hear a lot more information from them especially on who exactly this copilot was, what he was what his experience was, whether or not there might have been some sort of incidents in the past as well. Certainly, were getting information from the flying club that he was apparently a part of in the town that he was a positive individual someone that loved flying. For him, this was very much a dream job. He was 28 years old, also part of a Recreational Flying Club as well. And there are some media reports here in germany also here anderson stating that people saw no sign of any sort of psychological trauma or any sort of psychological issues with them. Of course thats something that were going to be looking into in the next couple of days as well. But right now, lufthansa is going to give Additional Information as to what they know what exactly happened. Certainly, were going to hear more about that in addition to what weve heard from the prosecutor. Were probably going to also hear more about who this copilot was and what they believe might have driven him to do this. It will also be interesting to see, fred, if lufthansa, if germany wings initiates changes in the procedures, perhaps making it a requirement that a cabin crew member would have to be in the cockpit if one of the pilots chooses to leave. Currently, theres no regulatory mandate that a copilot cannot be alone in the cockpit. Thats absolutely right. And thats absolutely true. And i do believe there are most certainly going to be changes that lufthansa is going to make. This is really something that hits lufthansa in its mark. One of the things always been known for, its been a pilots airline. I was actually had the privilege a couple of years ago, anderson of flying along on a Lufthansa Cargo flight. And we flew from senegal to brazil. And they say theres a lot of things they get to do that might not be common in other airline organizations. They say, for instance lufthansa pilots go and do simulated trainings. I think the legal requirement is two times a year. They do pride themselves on pilots that know what theyre doing that are well trained. And at the same time of course we also know that there has been a degree of unhappiness with the lufthansa pilots especially with the labor dispute theyve had with the company over the past, i would say, two years or so. It has always been airline this is something that really hits very very i wont say close to home. Really hits it right in one of its major sort of strengths that it always had. Fred well check back in with you after this press conference. The press conference anticipated to take place really any moment. We expect to hear from leaders at lufthansa as well as germanwings. Back with Richard Quest. David, in terms of the investigation, how have things changed in light of what weve learned . Its become criminal. In a standard investigation, its not a criminal investigation. Therefore, there can be information put out. Theres standard parameters for that. All of that has to be necessary in order to prosecute whoevers committed the crime or to find out if theres some other criminal activity that led to the activity. So at this point, i wouldnt expect us to hear much unless we get these leaks, which we have to obviously take care very careful. In a normal investigation in which criminal activity is not anticipated, would the pilots be the subject of such intense scrutiny at this stage . Yeah they would be actually. The pilots are the first thing in any accident that gets checked. In fact, even after the accident, we have toxicology samples that are taken from the pilots bodies to determine their state of chemistry in their bodies. So theyre definitely the first thing we look at it in an accident investigation. Obviously for the family members, this also changes the calculus it changes the perception of this. Also for even from a legal standpoint from an Airline Responsibility standpoint does this change . We dont really know what the responsibility. In any event, to a certain extent its all in the Montreal Convention and its all in terms of litigation and in terms of liability. It was an International Flight barcelona. So theres specific rules apply for that. But, yes, it will this changes everything. And because of this is lets listen to the press conference. The ceo of lufthansa. The french authorities gave us some information. I welcome the captain, the ceo, and the chief executive. Ladies and gentlemen, after the voice recorder was analyzed of our tragic flight german wings flight 9525 we had quite a turn in information. We from lufthansa are speechless that this aircraft has been deliberately crashed by the copilot. Recordings of the voice recorder show that the captain has left the cockpit just for a short time in the beginning and sadly could not go back. It seems to be true that the colleague who was still in the cockpit, the copilot did not give the captain access again, in order to activate the fatal descent in the alps. This makes us speechless. We here at lufthansa germanwings. I can only repeat what ive said for the last days. We are shocked. And i actually could not have imagined that this is even getting worse. Were having a technical problem, obviously, with that. Well try to reestablish contact as quickly as possible. The ceo of lufthansa saying were speechless shocked, dismayed. And it is only getting worse. Clearly, they seem as surprised as just about anybody. The first sentence out of his mouth, lufthansa is speechless that this aircraft was deliberately crashed by the copilot. Everything else we now say is hows the wears and the where fors. Now says his own pilot crashed one of his planes. This is an airline in which questions were raised about the quality of the pilots at germanwings, tried to answer those questions by saying, these are lufthansa pilots these are the gold standard. Lets listen back to the press conference. And this aviation tool is recognized for recruiting pilots. This is the best best procedure, and we are quite proud of using this. What happened here was something we could not imagine. Both pilots of course did their test. And then afterwards they went to the Aviation School in phoenix, arizona. They underwent training there. The copilot started his training in 2008. After training, he had quite he had an 1,100 waiting time which is quite normal. He worked as a Flight Attendant during his waiting time. And he worked as a copilot since 2013 for us. Six years ago, it was like this. There was an interruption with regard to the training. And after, then, the candidate managed to go through, he continued his training. He then also passed all medical tests, all flight examinations and all checks. He was 100 set to fly without restrictions. His flight performance was perfect. There was nothing to worry about. In a company like ours where we are quite proud and really vary quality and qualifications it is especially a shock for like everybody and the public, just a couple of hours after these findings, we can only speculate about motives. We have no findings at all with regard to why the copilot did that. What made him do it. And consciously, i would like to express that this is really a horrible event for our company for a long time. And i continue to fully trust our pilots. They are in a difficult situation. They are and remain the best ones in the world. And thats what we believe in lufthansa. They are a very important part of our brand. What happened here is a tragic individual event, and i would like to emphasize this. We stand jointly together and are united with the relatives, friends, and victims. And i probably can say with millions of people, it is a mystery and we are deeply saddened. I think it will take time for us to understand what happened. But we are all professionals. And we do Everything Possible to clarify this situation. To investigate and as i said two days ago, our teams are in france, and we focus on this. It doesnt matter what kind of Safety Measures you have how important security and safety is and we do have high standards. But a single case like this cannot be excluded by any system you have. I would like to Say Something personally. I worked for lufthansa as an engineer as a pilot. For many years now, i am within the leadership for lufthansa. And wherever i worked safety, security was number one. That this really happens to us. We still very much regret it, many things. I would be grateful if you speak up when you ask your questions. You say there is no way of preventing an accident like this. You say theres no way of preventing an accident like this. Were there no procedure by which the pilot, the captain couldve entered the cockpit door by perhaps entering a code that override the locking system . Yeah. In our industry we also are aware of the terrible events on 11th september and thats why we changed the procedure. And it will just mention something about that and then somebody else can also Say Something about that. Because ive been in the cockpit for some time. Doors now very much secured. In order to prevent some people entering the cockpit. So even if you have small weapons you cannot force entry. If one of the pilots leaves the cockpit, then its possible to ring at the outside and the pilot can have a look and see who wishes to enter the cockpit. If its the colleague or another crew member then theres a button and you can open the electronically secured door. We, of course, have procedures that in case a pilot has left the cockpit and another, the pilot inside is unconscious, then you have a further code that can be used on the door. And this leads also to a ringing sound. And if this buzzing sound, nobody opens the door after this buzzing sound, then electrically, the door is automatically opened. But, the pilot inside the cockpit can prevent this in order to keep the door shut. So that is possible from the inside. We do not wish to speculate. So either the captain who tried to get into the cockpit did not use this code because we all pilots know about this code and that is our procedure. Or the colleague has entered this code and the colleague in the cockpit put the lever on lock and prevented the door electronically to be opened. So we dont know yet we need to wait for the analysis. You just mentioned that the copilot interrupted his training six years ago. For how long did he interrupt it . And to why for several months he interrupted his training . And this is not uncommon. And for the reasons, actually about the reasons i cant give you any information. Somebody who interrupts his or her training, they have to be tested so that they are seen fit and that happen there. You mentioned that the training was interrupted and could that have to do something with the psychological or mental or medical tests . Well, if that was for medical reasons, then we know that this kind of information is treated as confidential. But, this will of course be part of the investigation on the part of the Public Prosecution to investigate this. But, of course i cannot pass this information on. After completion of training are there any more discussions . Any more tests to look for everything being fine . Regularly, we do have tests, examinations, and once a year, we have a medical test. We do not have psychological tests. But, of course, we look for Management Options and then also if it is about incapacity of the captain. If that could happen, then we, of course, do have preparation for that as well. But an explicit test for that we do not have. And that is not required by the ministry either. People are mourning. Flying is the safest mode of transport. And during the last couple of years, it actually got more safe. Lufthansa has one of the best safety records. Over 100,000 flights, we have every year. And this is why i can only say that lufthansa focuses on safety and security and we continue with that. Maybe feelings have changed now, but lufthansa still focuses on this. You just mentioned that it seems that the copilot deliberately caused the crash. Do you have any clues . Or can you exclude anything to other matters . No i can only agree with the federal minister who talked about this. We as the employer of this young person do not have any clues. Second question. 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And then the captain left the cockpit, and then it was said you have control, and then of course the pilot could leave the cockpit. That was the voice recordings the information we have. It seems you assume the copilot committed suicide. Why are you so sure . Was it sir, that the copilot when there was Emergency Training that something happened . Why do you think . Translator i can only repeat what the French Public prosecutor said. We need to assume now that the flight descent flight was done deliberately and wait for more information. Logical help if they wish to receive that. Was there anything conspicuous for this copilot during his training apart from the interruptions . Im not aware of anything else. If there is an interruption of training then of course we will test the fitness, whatever the reason was for that that reason will be examined again and i cannot say anything else. And if fitness has been established, then candidates will continue their training and that happened six years ago. Translator will this incident have any consequences to the training now . Translator i would like to repeat what i said at the beginning. I believe in this individual case this tragedy, we all trust the selection procedure and the training we have. Pilot training is very important for our company, and we should not doubt our system now. Of course we will talk to experts inhouse and also with experts from the Aviation Organization and also traffic organizations and the ministry. And i also talked to the cockpit association, and we of course will consider what can we improve when we select candidates and how can we improve training but that does not change my principle trust in lufthansas training for decades. Ht . Translator no im not aware of that. I do not know if there are any details about that. We have to follow it up. Thank you. Translator yes we of course mentioned we will give Financial Support to relatives, and that was said in barcelona and dusseldorf so we facilitate this as quickly as possible that we can give support. For traffic organizations, of course there are International Agreements we have to abide by but i can say we arent worried about that. Lufthansa is a stable organization, and we will help. Translator we do not want to make this public but of course the situation is as such that financially we will be able to continue. The relatives will receive some moneys, and we are at this moment in time doing this. Translator if anything conspicuous come up will this have to be reported about colleagues . Translator it depends on the special circumstances, but if Something Like this happens, of course it has to be described and reported. We do have the obligation to report this. If anything is special about flights, if Something Special happens, then it has to be report ed reported. Are there regulation where a fly attendant has to be in the cockpit if a pilot has to have a bathroom break or goes to get coffee . Only a small number of airlines in europe as far as i know, no. For sure none of the big airlines we work with. Reporter are you going to do that in the future . I dont see the need to change that in the future. As i mentioned before in german we will get together with the various experts in the Lufthansa Group airlines in the authorities, with our German Government to see if our procedures can be refined. I think we should not now jump into shortnotice activities. We rather should refrain from that and make analysis first. Youre confident in the pilots . I wish you understood my german. Ill repeat it in english, without any doubt. My Firm Confidence in the selection of our pilots in the training of our pilots the qualification of our pilots and the work of our pilots has not been touched by this single tragedy. Reporter sir, could you explain for us in english one more time if the minister of the interior has ruled out the likelihood of terrorism as a motive is germanwings, is lufthansa saying this is probably suicide . Translator im not a lawyer and i do not wish to Say Something concrete about that. As the ceo of the company, i would say if one person kills himself and also 149d people another word should be used, not suicide