Carrying 150 passengers and crew into the french alps. Cnns Senior Correspondent Fredrik Pleitgen is reporting. What does the new report tell us about the voice recorder . Reporter its interesting dana. This is the bild newspaper and it has excerpts of what it says is the voice recording. At the beginning of the flight it seems as though everything is normal but there might be telltale signs that maybe Andreas Lubitz the copilot was setting the captain up to leave the cockpit so he could steer the plane into the mountain. There are 1. 5 hours of recordings that the investigators went into. The flight took off 20 minutes late. At the beginning the captain can be heard apologizing for the delay. At the same time the captain tells lubitz that he didnt manage to go to 9 bathroom while at barcelona. Dont worry, you can go at any time. He used the bathroom break to lock the captain out of the cockpit. At 10 27 a. M. Local time the plane reaches its cruising altitude of 38,000 feet. At that p
Taunz saturday with a stunning admission. They knew, had documents showing that the copilot had severe depression despite original claims he was 100 fit to fly. Should andreas lib its ever have been in that cockpit . The deadline is extended one more day to try to prevent a nuclear iran. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Well start with breaking news reports that investigators have unearthed cell phone video taken from inside doomed Germanwings Flight 9525 in its final moments. Two published accounts of the horrific video say passengers are seen screaming. The cabin engulfed in chaos indications that everyone on board knew they were about to die. Lets get to cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh. Rene, what you can tell us . Jake we are just getting information from the french police. We want to say thisat this point theyre saying theyre unaware of the video. The agency investigating this, theyre unaware of this video as well. That being said the idea that
indication of the pain and suffering environment that they were in. that goes to the awards to the families. back up a second, charlie. there was video in inside the cockpit? not video in the cockpit. if this device in the cabin had video and audio, for investigative purposes we d have video and audio. we also heard today miles that the impact of the crash may have buried the flight data recorder in the gravel. that s a concern now from the accident site. miles, are you surprised that something like a cell phone may have survived? reporter: yeah, that s you know, i go back to something i covered a lot, the loss of columbia back in early 2003 the space shuttle, and the things that survived that crash were truly remarkable including some
reporting it a representable course. thank you, rene. let s go to charlie pereira with the national transportation safety board, also with us miles o brien. charlie, the cell phone individual wroe of the crash that supposedly exists you ve heard the talk the heavy shake toward the end, the banging bit pilot. what could these things tell us about what happened beyond what we already know? well, we have the cockpit voice recorder which gives us the environment as heard from within the cockpit. if we have other video recorders in the cabin, that willhopefully give us that environment as well from an investigative perspective perspective. we vud should have the video from the environment also. it s helpful for the families to understand what was going on if they have any interest and fort the lawsuits that will follow. it will help for the litigators that represent the families because it gives them some
end of the recording. so it really is a very chilling read of these final moments of that germanwings flight that went down in the alps dana. absolutely terrifying. fredrik, thank you for that report. appreciate it. here with us now, charlie pereira, former ntsb investigator who co-wrote the first chapter of the 9/11 commission report. thank you for joining me. first your reaction to what we know detail by detail of the last final minutes? well for the families it s another horrible piece of data that indicates what their families went through. that s the worst part of all of this. yes. for investigators, these are what we call establishes boundary conditions for the reconstruction of the flight after the airplane. there will likely be ground scars or witness marks where the wing reportedly hit the mountain. we typically go out to those areas and search along the flight path for trees that have