live from america s news headquarters i m jackie. the co-pilot of germanwings flight 9525 sped up the plane before slamming it into the french alps. that s according to french investigators. the march 24th crash killed 27-year-old andrew lunts and 149 people on board. the new information reportedly coming from the plane s second black box. the flight data recorder. it was found buried in debris. it backs up investigators claims that lunts intentionally crashed plane after locking himself in the cockpit. german prosecutors say he planned his deadly dive researching cockpit and door security before the crash. another terrorist getting arrested for terror charges. a philadelphia woman planned to travel overseas to join the islamic state. she made her first court appearance today. investigators say she messaged an isis fighter in
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9525 appears to be first and foremost about a person who clearly had a lot of problems. what he did not have was very much airline flight deck experience though. just 600 hours. how that factored in we don t fully know. it does throw a spotlight, however, on some larger questions of how to get safe and professionally solid aviators into the cockpit, especially in the face of today s global pilot shortage. lubitz was trained by lufthansa in a program that takes either inexperienced pilots or even non-pilots and turns them into airline first officers. the very first job in that right seat. the co-pilot seat of an airline cockpit often with more than 150 people in the back. in this country, it is different. most airline pilots start in the military and do variety of pilot jobs winding up with thousands of hours before they get to where this co-pilot got. it could be changing. probably the best part of my job is waking up very early,
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