interpreted as the plane s right wing actually scraping a mountaintop. more screams from passengers and then silence. pamela brown is our justice correspondent in germany for us right now. pamela on top of everything i just went through, there is more coming out about this co-pilot from his ex-girlfriend, a former lover, and now this german prosecutor. can you just piece it all together for me? reporter: yes. disturbing new details, brooke. specifically about his medical condition that we ve been hearing about. a source that i spoke with close to this investigation said that he was having some vision problems. he thought he was having some issues so he went to the eye doctor. the eye doctor found that there was nothing wrong with his eyes and diagnosed him with a psychosomatic disorder which comes from mental stress. it s not an actual physical disorder. we also have learned that he went to a neuropsych kol cyst
door screaming, for god s sake let me back in. here is kyung lah. reporter: the switch is surprisingly simple and exists in the cockpit of every single commercial plane that s flying around the world. he cannot imagine why a pilot would do this. but he knows how. a commercial retired pilot forsythe has flown thousands of hours. normal lock and unlock. reporter: he like all pilots has used the switch hundreds of time. to unlock you have to pull up and hold it and a light comes on saying that it s open. if i release it it goes back to normal position. reporter: norm means it is locked. that s correct. reporter: there s a key pad entry on the outside that allows
as you can imagine, though a lot of concern because there s a lot of supersecret and military stuff that goes on here and they acted very very quickly. brooke? to your word bizarre. suzanne malveaux, thank you very much. coming up let me show you a peck you are it. do you know who this man is? answer trevor noah. not necessarily a household name here in the united states. he s been tapped now to host the daily show. why comedy central chose him. plus what the ex-girlfriend of the co-pilot accused of running the plane into the french alps says about his behavior more than a year ago. more on that. stay with me. focused. i was determined to create new york city s first self-serve frozen yogurt franchise. and now you have 42 locations. the more i put into my business the more i get out of it. like 5x your rewards when you make select business purchases with your ink plus card from chase. and with ink, i choose how to redeem my points for things like cash or travel. how s the fro-y
injections for that. what are those? you re talking about psychiatric drugs now used a psychosis is probably one of the worst things that can happen to you in the psychiatric realm. that s an actual disconnection with reality. and patients who are psychotic have delusions, they hear things and in the reverse they become extremely withdrawn. so those are very you know strong psychiatric medications certainly would not be allowable you should not be flying a plane if you were getting these kinds of injections? absolutely not. object the other hand, if someone were that sick it would be apparent to the people around them. that s not something you can usually hide. this is prior to him getting his pilot s license. prior to his license. again, there were questions about, why didn t the doctor say
airline pilots say when you get up in seniority, you may recognize names on the list but it s not like you fly with the same person day in and day out. and you re totally fine with that? well i couldn t say yes and i m not trying to push it, just asking. right. right. the answer is yes, i m totally fine with that. anytime you or i get on a commercial airliner we put their lives on the line. to that point, i ve heard from a number of colleagues here at cnn. jacqueline let me put this to you, who have been on planes in the last week and in the wake of what happened with this french alps crash, you know one colleague was telling me the pilot here in the u.s. got on the loud speaker and said hey, my name is sam smith, this is you know, co-pilot you know j.d. and we just want to reassure you we re thrilled to be happy to be piloting this plane. we all want to be safe. the fact that these, you know