help somebody deal with that whether it is something that he could have gone to his employer with or whether he feared repercussions if he did go to his employer. cnn s rosie thompkins is in montabaur, germany, which is the hometown of andreas lubitz. obviously it has to be an extraordinarily difficult time obviously for family members but for all those who knew this young man. rosie, are investigators have they finished the search of his family s house, of his property there? obviously we re having a problem getting in touch with rosie. we ll check back in with her. the german prosecutor spoke a short time ago. i want to bring our panel in this morning. flight instructor former pilot for northwest airlines scott miller. former managing director for the ntsb peter goelz and miles
picture of exactly who andreas lubitz was. they just recently searched his apartment in dusseldorf on thursday. they are also looking for clues in his parents home in the town he used to hang out we re told when he was a bit younger at a gliding club. diana mag nay has more for us. reporter: the house where andreas lubitz s parents live in the german town of montabaur shuttered and guarded by police. investigators the only ones granted access. we were told the grandparents lived in this nearby house, but they re unwilling to speak about the man french prosecutors say may have deliberately crashed flight 9525. i ask if they re relatives. no, thank god we re not, they say, getting into a police car. we re just trying to get away. but gliding was clearly a passion for the young lubitz. between the ages of 12 and 14 lubitz was a regular fixture at this gliding club on the outskirts of montabaur, where a
was mentally 100% he was 100% fit to fly, and that they had no reason to suspect that there were any problems there. mystery all around, and the police desperately searching for clues. rosie tompkins there for us in montabaur, germany. thank you so much. now to george. to the crash site we go. our erin mclaughlin is there live. erin, what more do we know about exactly what happened on that plane? reporter: hi, george. well, shocking developments in the investigation. yesterday the prosecutor in marseille gave a press conference in which he revealed that based on analysis of the cockpit flight recorder investigators now believe that 27-year-old andreas lubitz, the co-pilot, deliberately locked the captain out of the cockpit and deliberately crashed flight 9525. let me just go through a timeline of the events as we know them. at 10:01 a.m. on tuesday the plane is believed to have taken off from barcelona en route to
andreas lubitz especially those who knew him better. they re the ones who don t really want to say much at all. but we have managed to glean bits and pieces from some of the people who live around here. i spoke to a guy who lives just three doors down from him earlier who said like they all do that he was a very normal kind of a guy. he didn t particularly stand out. he was perfectly friendly. let s just take a listen to what he said. he was for me very healthy guy. jogs doesn t smoke. i can t imagine that he was mentally ill, depressed and sad. he doesn t seem like so i was shocked when i hear that. reporter: there s a running circuit around this part of montabaur where andreas lubitz grew up with his parents just
don t know. the clues from the black box as to lubitz s psychological state as the plane went down simply that he was silent but breathing. as the pilot knocked desperately on the cockpit door. diana magnay, cnn, montabaur, germany. this hour cnn is covering all angles of this story. our complete team coverage with rosie tompkins, who is live in the co-pilot s hometown. erin mclaughlin is at the crash site in the french alps. and our meteorologist derek van dam is standing by with how high winds may have hampered the recovery. so first let s go to rosie tompkins. she is in montabaur, germany, where investigators are searching for answers and i m certain this town must be overwhelmed by what it is now going through. rosie. reporter: hi. yes. another town in germany now in shock that this young man, this 27-year-old man accused of deliberately crashing this plane. they are of course alarmed by this news.