$100,000 to help the city recover from riots. french investigators have revealed the germanwings copilot who deliberately crashed his aircraft appears to have rehearsed on an earlier flight. andreas lubitz seemed to be toying with the plane s settings on the flight into barcelona, the previous leg. he programmed that night into a sharp descent multiple times in a four and a half minute period. i think what this man was probably doing was rehearsing a little bit what he was going to do on the next flight. like somebody picking up a gun and loading and unloading it. later on that flight, of course, lubitz actually changed the controls, sending the plane straight into a mountain, killing 150 people. so four oil tanker cars that burst into flames following a derailment have burned themselves out. we want to show you the scene now. look at that, moments after the accident yesterday in rural north dakota. about 40 residents in a nearby town were evacuated as a precaution. it s the ei
investigators say 27-year-old lubitz practiced before he steered into the french alps. just before the deadly crash, lubitz and the captain, piloted the plane to barcelona. with the captain out of the cockpit, the flight data reporter shows that he brief leave set the plane s auto pilot to 100 feet before leveling off again. he certainly was exploring the aircraft and its ability to go up or down. and not stop him from descending it into the ground. making sure nobody would see him. reporter: according to the report, the selected altitude decreased to 100 feet for three second. then increased to the maximum value of 49,000 feet. less than two minutes later the selected altitude was 100 feet until it stablized at 25,000 feet t the flight never left its scheduled path. so air traffic control didn t
notice the altitude changes. unless the plane is equipped to stream the data and they decide to stream the data of the aircraft performance from the flight and some one is monitoring it, they wouldn t hatch noticed. it is clear the pilot didn t notice for another reason. the front lab was not operative. he was gone four minutes. reporter: it appears it was a dry run for what he would do later the same morning on board the plane during flight 9525. lubitz waited until the captain left, locked the door, set it to 100 feet. directed the jetliner into the mountains killing all 150 people on board. awe thought was cnn aviation correspondent renee marsh reporting from washington. a north korean insider gives us a rare look at the reclusive regime. no topping w inic was off-limit
i want you to take note of all the red at the zero level. you see here? because that is how often and how long lubitz according to this report set the plane to drop toward 100 feet. the same auto pilot setting flight 9525 was at when it collided in the french alps. the report said lubitz did these dry runs over a period of five minutes when the pilot had apparently left the cockpit briefly and after air traffic control had directed the plane to go to a lower altitude. with me now, aviation attorney daniel rose and cnn analyst mary schiavo. welcome to both of you. i have a lot of questions. mary to you first. the fact we know this co-pilot repeatedly set that altitude at 100 feet a couple times during that previous flight is that something that folks on the ground air traffic control, should have or could have detected? no that s a problem.
hearing anything yet from the nfl on that. they cannot not do something. in other words, something has to happen. this story was so big and took over right before the super bowl that there has to be a resolution. seems to me there has to be punishment based on what we re hearing from the report. okay. christine brennan, mike freeman, and coy wire thank you all so much. now this. a new report provides perhaps the most damning detail yet that, the co-pilot of that doomed germanwings flight 9525 committed mass murder. investigators now believe andreas lubitz repeatedly practiced putting that plane into a rapid descent. this information comes from a preliminary report by the b.e.a. it put forth this graph to explain how lubitz practiced.