Emergency landing while flying this helicopter with a flight instructor. Down the runway like federal investigators will be back on scene this morning. But one thing they wont be able to investigate is this vintage plane it does not have a black box, chris. Thats for sure. At least it has somebody who can tell the story of what happened. Thank you for the reporting. Back in new york a much bigger situation. The ntsb investigating a near disaster at new Yorks Laguardia airport. Delta flight 127 passengers aboard. Skidded off a snowy runway nearly went into the waters of flushing bay. We have cnns Miguel Marquez, live at laguardia with more. Miguel . Chris, amazing that so few injuries happened in this situation. Right now that fuselage that plane is being taken off the runway here at laguardia so things can get back to normal. There are a few cancellations here a few delays but for the most part, this airport is struggling back into action. This morning, the priority to lift the battere
International correspondent Jim Bittermann joining us from paris and cnn aviation analyst peter goels joining us from dallas. Jim, walk us through exactly what the copilot did on that earlier flight how investigators now came to the conclusioning that it was a rehearsal for what eventually wound up doing. Right. Exactly. Basically the earlier flight was the outbound flight from dusseldorf to barcelona and during that flight at one point, the pilot left the cockpit leaving the copilot lubitz in charge and he dialed into the setting on the autopilot, he dialed in the lowest setting, 100 feet. He had been ordered to descend according to air Traffic Controllers, descend from 37,000 to 35,000 and instead of setting it at 35,000 he set it to 100 feet and then just about a minute later, he again was ordered to descend by the air Traffic Controllers and they said to go down to 21,000 feet. Instead of setting in 21,000 he again set into motion the setting of 100 feet. So it was either a rehears
The transcript was leaked way too early in the investigation. Reporter the leaked transcript criticized that meerkat voyeurism by fresh investigators captured the steps Andreas Lubitz took to kill all 150 on board. At 10 00 a. M. The plane takes off and he tells the captain, you didnt go to the bathroom. Go any time. It reaps cruising altitude. The captain asks him to prepare for the landing and after the check, lubitz says you can go now. Then the captain is heard getting up saying you can take over. Lubitz all alone, reprograms the auto pilot separate towards the alp, dropping around 3,000 feet a minute. Air Traffic Control tries to contact the plane but receives no answer. An alarm goes off inside the cockpit warning, sink rate. Then a loud bang on the door the captain screaming, for gods sake open the door. Passengers are also heard screaming. Five minutes before impact more bangs can be heard, metallic noisdz as if someone was trying to knock the door down. Another 90 seconds late