their investigators would have leaked that information. that cell phone data has been found at the site. cell phones found at the site. they on their way to an institute to be analyzed and haven t been analyzed yet. clearly what they say they saw would match what we ve been hearing about the black box recordings in flight 9525 s final moments. that s just what makes it that much more disturbing. it s certainly within the realm of possibility that if something like that happened, people would take out their cell phones to document it. just a bit could potentially be more insight into how horrific the final moments were. live for us, just past 8:00 a.m. in dusseldorf, germany. thank you very much. the issue of what andreas lubitz shared with lufthansa about his battle with depression is very important, of course, because it could affect the airline s liability for the crash. here s cnn aviation correspondent, richard quest, on that. reporter: when he left
a prominent role in a lawsuit against korean airlines by the families of those passengers. those known facts gleaned from those black box recordings. they re also proof. right? they re proof that what was basically reported to have happened really did happen. for years leading up to and after the handoff of those empty black boxes, the soviets had insisted that flight they shot down wasn t a passenger plane at all. they said it was a spy plane, that was why they shot it out of the sky. that explains why it was so off-course. that plane was filled with spies, not with innocent men, women, and children. that had been the soviet line about it, right? it is the nature of conspiracy theories that they re often difficult to dispel with fact, but it is still helpful to actually finally get your hands on some facts. to have that official incontrovertible record of what really happened and what really experienced. i m sure there are still post-soviet russians out there who believe it really was
to see leading into an investigation of a crash site and the wreckage, itself? yeah, good you asked that. people think of the normal thing, investigators get there, they chart the wreckage very carefully. they look for the black box recordings and so forth. and all that s important when it was a normal cause of an accident. in this case, missile shoot-down, it s a completely different ball game. i mean, all you really need to do is rule out that it s some other cause and that seems to be almost certain at this point that it was not that. and if you believe our intelligence sources so far, if we or somebody else has actual infrared satellite images of the missile being fired from the ground and later infrared image of the score, the hit on the airplane, well, there s your proof. you know, you don t need black
people think of the normal thing, investigators get there, they chart the wreckage very carefully. they look for the black box recordings and so forth. and all that s important when it was a normal cause of an accident. in this case, missile shoot-down, it s a completely different ball game. i mean, all you really need to do is rule out that it s some other cause and that seems to be almost certain at this point that it was not that. and if you believe our intelligence sources so far, if we or somebody else has actual infrared satellite images of the missile being fired from the ground and later infrared image of the score, the hit on the airplane, well, there s your proof. you know, you don t need black boxes, you don t need the charting of the wreckage you would need in a normal crash.
yeah, good you asked that. people think of the normal thing, investigators get there, they chart the wreckage very carefully. they look for the black box recordings and so forth. and all that s important when it was a normal cause of an accident. in this case, missile shoot-down, it s a completely different ball game. i mean, all you really need to do is rule out that it s some other cause and that seems to be almost certain at this point that it was not that. and if you believe our intelligence sources so far, if we or somebody else has actual infrared satellite images of the missile being fired from the ground and later infrared image of the score, the hit on the airplane, well, there s your proof. you know, you don t need black