down killing everyone on board. forced us to come to the conclusion that the flight was deliberately crashed. reporter: the cockpit voice recorder capturing it all. investigators say as the plane hits cruising altitude, the captain asks lubitz to take control, stepping out of the cockpit presumably to use the restroom. the 27-year-old co-pilot switches the plane into autopilot setting off the nearly ten-minute long deadly descent. the pilot frantically knocking on the door pleading to be let back in the cockpit but there s no response. amidst the sound of screaming passengers, andreas lubitz is heard breathing normally until the moment of impact. they are listening to the breathing and considering the pattern they are hearing is with someone who is conscious, alert and doing something they intend to do. reporter: a horrifying realization for families of the
translator: forced to come to the conclusion that the flight was deliberately crashed. reporter: the cockpit voice recorder capturing it all. investigators say as the plane hits cruising altitude, the captain asks lubitz to take control, stepping out of the cockpit presumably to use the restroom. the 27-year-old co-pilot switches the plane into autopilot setting off the nearly ten-minute long deadly descent. the pilot frantically knocking on the door pleading to be let back in the cockpit but there s no response. amidst the sound of screaming passengers, andreas lubitz is heard breathing normally until the moment of impact. they are listening to the breathing and considering the pattern they are hearing is with someone who is conscious, alert and doing something they intend to do. reporter: a horrifying realization for families of the
and age seems to be a factor too. i saw something about where roughly a third of the lone survivor incidents that somebody studied had been children. so i think there it s the weight of the body as one is thrown from the wreckage or when the impact occurs when the plane hits, that a child s body is lighter. so the impact may be less. i think, too, could be in the case of that age, the flexibility of the developing bones, the muscular structure and so forth somehow makes it easier for a child. oftentimes when an infant falls from a window or building from a couple of stories up and sometimes they survive, i think that has something to do with it too. this girl is clearly very very lucky. how do you think investigators will proceed with respect to the 7-year-old? presumably they need to talk to her but how does her emotional welfare figure into the time line of the investigation? they would be very delicate about that considering it s a child.
as it sits. got you. supposedly according to local reports parts of the tale have been identified and found and an oil slick by where parts of the tail were found. if it s an oil slick and continuing to just appear and maintain itself then they could be close to the area where the main part of the plane hits. there are wrecks we dive from world war ii that are oil is still seeping out of and leaving a slick. i was on one this summer off of north carolina. in the tail is where you expect to find them in the tail section. yesterday you were talking about the black suitcase that was found.
voice information. and inside it we have this acoustic. this is sending out this is the thing of the hour that we re trying to sense. this is what the whole world is hoping to find. this is inside this box. it s sending out an acoustic signal, not radio but noise essentially. this is in-water to be detected. what s most fiing to everybody is that neither of these were picked up, detected, et cetera. i want to show you something here that actually caused me a little bit of a concern. okay. that s an on/off switch right there. right. that s an on/off switch. i could easily flick it off. we know there are four of these elts on board the plane. would it be easily accessible and could you switch them off? one is in the cockpit. listen, so it s off. or it s on sort of stand by mode where it s if it gets a certain g-load, meaning if the plane hits or stops abruptive, then that will activate it. that s a crash, essentially. or you can just turn it on. there might be a situa