investigators say 27-year-old lubitz practiced before he steered into the french alps. just before the deadly crash, lubitz and the captain, piloted the plane to barcelona. with the captain out of the cockpit, the flight data reporter shows that he brief leave set the plane s auto pilot to 100 feet before leveling off again. he certainly was exploring the aircraft and its ability to go up or down. and not stop him from descending it into the ground. making sure nobody would see him. reporter: according to the report, the selected altitude decreased to 100 feet for three second. then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet. less than two minutes later the selected altitude was 100 feet until it stablized at 25,000 feet t the flight never left its scheduled path. so air traffic control didn t
from descending it into the ground, making sure that nobody would see him. according to the report, the selected alty due decreased to 100 feet for three seconds and then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet. less than two minutes later, the selected altitude was 100 feet until it stabilized at 25,000 feet. the flight never left its scheduled path, so air traffic control didn t notice the altitude changes. the less the plane is equipped to stream the data and they decide to stream the data of the performance from the flight and someone is monitoring it, they wouldn t have noticed. it was clear that the pilot didn t notice. for another reason, the front lav was inoperative and he went to the back. he was gone for four minutes. it appears it was a dry run for what he would do later that morning on board the same plane during flight 9525.
there will be a penalty for the rule-breaking in the first place, a penalty for what they perceived as lying about it. and we ll have to see how far it extends, to the rest of the team? they said that bill belichick, the coach, didn t have any knowledge of this. but we ve seen the nfl in other cases, with the saints with the browns with the falcons, say that ignorance is not an excuse. and they have penalized high-ranking members of those organizations for things that underlings or in this case a player may have done. this is going to be a big decision for the nfl. we re talking about a golden boy of the league, tom brady. we ll have to see what they do here. there are going to be many eyes watching on this one. does this do you think this somehow ruins the sport in any way? is there always going to be a cloud of speculation of cheating when it comes to football in general or even just the patriots and their win in the last super bowl? reporter: look the nfl is a juggernaut. peop
autopilot to 100 feet before leveling off again. he certainly was exploring the aircraft and its ability to go up or down and not stop him from descending it into the ground making sure nobody would see him. reporter: according to the new report the selected altitude decreased to 100 feet for three seconds. then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet less than two minutes later, the selected altitude was 100 feet until it 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. it was clear the pilot didn t notice. reporter: it appears to have a dry run for what he would do later on that morning on board the very same plane during the flight 9525.
for three seconds. then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet. less than two minutes later, the selected altitude was 100 feet. until it 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. it was clear the pilot didn t notice for another reason. the front lab was inoperative and he apparently went clear to the back. he was gone for four minutes. reporter: it appears it was a dry run for what he would do later on same morning on board the same plane during flight 9525. lieu bits 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