certainly 20 seconds that you have to key your microphone and tell controllers what s going on. if that didn t happen if there was no may day call then that leads to this scenario that the crew may have been incapacitated. again, this is a list of possibilities. but you clearly have a situation here where whatever happened would seem to overwhelmed crew in some way. kitty, let me get your thoughts on that. tom is right. i think again, we have a lot of information at this point but don t have confirming information. until the investigators can get to the wreckage get the black boxes, we really won t know. as has been said before in many of these accidents it usually is a chain of events and not just one event. and we can sit here and speculate and muse about what may have happened but we need to get those investigators to
government. and what our own andrea mitchell reports, to your point in your piece, you say the white house discovered the operation when the u.s. intelligence agency spied on israel s intercepted communications. andrea mitchell reports to us that as a result the state department stopped providing israel with intelligence briefings on talks. so where are we now regarding i would assume not the u.s. itself but the relationship with netanyahu with the latest development being disclosed and made public. i think what this really shows is sort of the distrust on both sides. the white house doesn t trust netanyahu and that s part of the reason why the u.s. scaled back some of the information that they were providing to the israelis because of concerns about leaks and that they were using this information the americans were providing against the white house. and the israelis in turn don t
germanwings airbus flight as well as we re getting some information regarding whether or not the plane transmitted this emergency distress call. right now reuters is saying according to french air traffic controllers that quote, we did not pick up any emergency alert during the time that it was tracked, the flight was tracked. this was confusing information on whether the plane transmitted a distress code on the transponder. we re working to verify as much as possible. as you well know this investigation is just beginning and the majority of the search and rescue team not having having not reached the site of the crash at this point. that does it for this edition of quts nation. up next, quts andrea mitchell reports.
states directly. the story we wrote, what israeli officials and u.s. officials say is basically what happened is that the israelis are spying on the negotiations and the iranian delegation. when john kerry and others provide information, for example, the israelis are able to sweep up those details because they spy aggressively. in the past largely as a result of aid from the united states they basically are able to collect that information from the iranian side. what they re saying is they don t spy directly on the united states and its allies but what they re not saying in that statement is that they basically have this back door what some officials say is a back door to get u.s. communications. which is pointed out in your report writes israeli officials denied spying directly on u.s.
germany. and this just in the spokesperson for the town of haltern, 40 miles from the destination, telling us that 16 students and two teachers from a nearby school were booked on germanwings on this flight but it has not been confirmed they were on the plane. working to confirm that information now. shortly after losing contact with french radar an hour into the flight we know the plane went down crashed here in the foothills of the southern alps, around 10:53 a.m. local time. looking at lives feared gone we want to remind you, we know 6 crew members, 144 passengers were on board, as you mentioned two of those infants, two of them babies. france s president saying the victims were german spanish, turkish. no french were on the flight. the aircraft 24 years old. rather young. and the last routine check on the plane was done yesterday, according to a carrier which by