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 the jetliner into the mountains, killing all 150 people on board. this is just a preliminary report. the investigation is still very much ongoing. germanwings refused to comment on the report wolf. rene thanks very much. let s get some insight from our
correct. those five prayers in school we have. marc listen to what i m actually saying. the fact that we have people that won t even show the cartoons any other religion that is criticized mocked whether it be the catholic church the jokes on saturday night live that came out against basically every priest when you had the sex scandal, the fact you had horrible depictions of jesus christ with what we just referred to the fact you have plays on broadway that mock religions, they don t have to get any other security for that. let s end it there. that s the point we were making. you re both still wrong. that s fine. but the point of a good debate is this, i no longer know how i feel but i know you all feel i m wrong. a big story this morning, but there s a lot of breaking news. so let s get to it. the co-pilot who crashed germanwings flight 9525 into the french alps rehearsed his suicide mission during that
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that co-pilot of the doomed germanwings flight committed mass murder. investigators now believe andreas lubitz repeatedly practiced putting the plane into a deadly descent on the flight right before the one that left all 150 people on board dead. the information comes from a preliminary report by the b.e.a. the french agency investigating the march 24th crash. it put forth this graph to explain how lubitz rehearsed. note the red at zero level there. so this is exactly how long and how often lubitz according to this report set the plane to drop toward 100 feet. the same auto pilot setting flight 9525 was at when it crashed into the french alps. fred what was the pilot doing when his co-pilot was entering 100 feet altitude? well that s really part of
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 minute what happened as flight 9525 dropped altitude. it noted how high that plane was when the cockpit door was heard closing. from that point to the catastrophic end, air controllers tried to reach the cockpit 11 times. after those attempts you see how low the plane was when the french military tried to make contact three times. then violent blows to the cockpit door are heard. the b.e.a. s report indicates about 30 seconds later the plane was obliterated against the mountainside in france. with me now, cnn aviation analyst les aben. good to see you.