debris, trying to make sense of what happened. you really did have passengers from all over the world, diana. japan, colombia. and i think we found out yesterday, there were three american on board, as well. reporter: that s right. we know a little bit about two of those americans. a marine college graduate, emily selky, and her mother, yvonne, traveling on the plane. and there is a u.s. american, u.s. citizen, killed on board whose details we don t know yet. but yes, three u.s. citizens, three british citizens, all of their stories beginning to come out. we know that one of the british citizens of the mother of a small baby. she ll been flown to spain to her uncle s funeral, had rushed back to the u.k. with her small child. boeing of them killed on board. two babies, two of the victims in this terrible incident.
extremely agitated this information from the voice data recorder had gotten out. and here we stand. germanwings not commenting today except to say that only a pilot can let another pilot or another member of crew back into the cockpit. now, the state department released the names of two of the three americans who died in that crash. yvonne and emily selky. they were on a mother daughter trip. emily was a recent graduate of drexal university. the french this morning saying this united states angle now very interesting. because the leak from the cockpit voice recorder coming from the u.s., and that could be because american victims were involved and american involvement in the investigation is greater. live in the alps. the new york post today, the pilot was locked out. that would explain why there was no may day.
death. also her sorority there, she was a member of gamma, sigma, sigma. they also paid their respects to her via facebook. we do know that she worked emily worked at a company by the name of car works here in washington, d.c. she worked as a community manager and we know her mother works for the consulting firm booze allen. so that s what we know about those two. cnn has been in contact with richard selky who is the father and the husband. and he says as you would imagine that he s just bloken up and cannot bring himself to speak, but we are expecting some sort of family statement at some point today, we don t have a timeline for when we will get it but we re expecting that from richard selky. on to that third american we are still without any information as far as the identity the state department saying that they re actively working now to get in touch with
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