Recovery of human remains, theyre working to figure out what happened to flight 9525. After all, what was reportedly found on that flight cockpit voice recorder, is stunning. Stunning new details this morning in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525. According to media reports, one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit. When the plane crashed into the side of this Mountain High in the french alps. All of the 150 people on board, including schoolaged children and two infants, presumed dead. The New York Times cite as senior military official involved in examining audio evidence from the cockpit voice recorder. This official says before the planes rapid descent, one of the pilots left the cockpit and was unable to get back in. The paper quotes this investigator as saying the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there is no answer. Then he hits the door stronger no answer. There is never an answer. He says you can hear he is trying to smash the door down. The chilling repo
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. Its that point in the flight when even nervous fliers tend to relax. Germanwings flight 9525 from barcelona to dusseldorf had just reached cruise level, 38,000 feet as it sailed high over the french alps. Whatever happened next was sudden, and the plane was in an apparently controlled descent from which it never recovered. Bits of debris are littered across the remote mountainside where the plane crashed. There is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage, said one official. Anguished relatives of the 150 people onboard were told there are not expected to be any survivors. We have a team in place covering this horrible tragedy starting with bill neely in southern france. Bill . Reporter good evening, lester. This is a crash that has experts baffled. A plane flying apparently normally in good weather that suddenly plummets more than 30,000 feet in ten minutes. U
Guantanamo bay . All as part of this agreement with the taliban, they were swapped for Bowe Bergdahl who by the way, was promoted and received pay the entire time he was held captive by the taliban. So ive got ed lavandera, ive got barbara starr, theyve covered the bergdahl story extensively. Welcome back to the two of you. As we await this official statement from the army. Barbara let me just begin with you. Why dont we run through these initial charges and explain to me what this will mean for him. Well its very serious, brooke. Desertion. It doesnt really get more serious than that. But that may be a difficult charge to make. To make a charge of desertion, you have to have the evidence that the military person deliberately left his post and had no intention of returning. Intended never to come back to be potentially with enemy forces. This gets down to the essential question that we dont know the answer to did bergdahl absolutely intend to willfully desert his post . Or was this a c
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