pain. thank you. may i ask a question? is there any connection between that and the can i just explain the question. the question was yesterday we said the plane was delayed but there was obviously no explanation of why. yes. there s no reasoning behind this but that there s congestion at the airport which caused air traffic control to give us a later start-up time for the aircraft other than the one according to the schedule. so no relationship relation to the incident whatsoever. how many people are taking the flight tomorrow? this will depend on the resources of the french
putting down those candles and just sort of standing there in front of the makeshift memorial that s been going on all day. really a steady stream of people. you re right, in this town that has about 37,000 people living in it almost everybody knows somebody who is in some way affected by all of this. we went out today and we spoke to people and we met some people who actually knew the 16 students who were on that plane. there was one young lady who said she knew all of them and she had plans for the future with one of the people on that flight. we made plans for when they would come back we would do certain things. they made longer-term plans as well. these are clearly people who still had their future ahead of them and were looking towards a very bright future. that s what makes this so sad not just for the students that are coming here but also for this complete town. i was talking to the mayor of this town today, and he broke out into tears. so this is certainly something that s to
why, why the plane reached 38,000 feet then dropped for ten minutes with no distress call from the cockpit. french government officials say they ve not ruled out terrorism, but they consider it an unlikely explanation. joining me now rene marsh with the american angle here. rene talk to me about this mother and this daughter and now this third american. so brooke that is the news and the headlines that just came out of the state department that there were indeed three americans on board this night. we know the identities of two, the first yvonne selky and her daughter emily. they re both from virginia 45 minutes outside of washington, d.c. we are learning more biographical information about these two. we know that emily selky is a student at drexel university the university confirming to cnn that they are aware of the
the bodies of the victims. this morning, thousands of feet up in the french alps recovery of the obliterated germanwings flight 9525 continues. the crash site a picture of horror, says germny s foreign millster. the wreckage strewn across 10 acres of terrain. 150 people on board presumed lost. a storm front pushing rain and possibly snow into the higher elevations today, may hinder the recovery effort. the mountain whether off creates clouds a very challenging situation for the rescuers. around 10:00 a.m. local time tuesday, the airbus 320 was on the ground in barcelona. its takeoff delayed by nearly 30 minutes. the company says it was air traffic control issues not the
so thank you very much. i beg your pardon. we can t take more questions. no you had three questions already. please understand. we will keep you informed about everything we know. let s pull away from this. that was the first time i actually heard from both the ceos of lufthansa and germanwings victims from 18 different countries. what s significant there is they were saying hearing from lufthansa ceo, former pilot. he visited the crash site yesterday. and he said they re going to provide a plane for any friends, family members of these victims to board this plane tomorrow to go as close as they possibly can to this crash site. it is inaccessible location. helicopters aren t even landing in. they re having to rope in a lot of these investigators. but they re providing a location