deliberately killing himself and everyone else on board. investigators are trying to figure out why he did it as crews face a daunting task. welcome back to early start. 31 minutes past the hour. i m christine romans. we have new questions in the flight of 9525. a french prosecutor says the co- pilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately flew the plane into the mountain side. the co- pilot is identified as german national 27-year-old andreas lubitz. german police searching his family home and apartment for clues. the fbi announcing it will help french authorities. the latest on all of this i want to bring in rosie tompkins
confidential confidentiality of a colleague not being fit to fly. it really does remain a mystery were he would have done this. police searching for clues here at the family home and dusseldorf. they confirmed they have taken some things from the apartment in dusseldorf. they have been seen living the family home with bags and computer. they are looking for anything they can to answer questions. rosie tompkins thank you. at the co- pilot s family home in germany. crews in the french alps face a tough task. daunting conditions. the crash scene is five acres across accessible by helicopters. rescuers must be lowered by helicopter because there is no place to land. family members are arriving for
incredible of the families. we will do everything to get the help that they need in these difficult hours. rosie tompkins joins us live from germany where many of the victims families are waiting for final word of their loved ones. and rosie, roughly half the passengers were german but there are people from france spain, turkey, colombia and japan. what are we learning from the families of those who are on board? reporter: yeah many of those family members headed here to the airport when they heard news of the crash and information only to have their worst fears confirmed that their family member was on board. there s a crisis center here to provide support to family members counseling to help them through this traumatic news as it was reaching them. the airline also offered to fly family members to the french
warns that number could change as more details emerge in the coming days. christine? thank you, rosie tompkins in dusseldorf this morning. the king of spain canceling a state visit to france to return home this morning. the germanwings flight originated in barcelona, and a count of spanish surnames suggest about 45 of those passengers may have been spanish nationals. still no official count from officials in spain. mourning along with those families in haltern, germany, are the residents of the small spanish town where the german exchange students attended that program. hundreds gathering at a mass to remember their friends. cnn s karl penhaul is there. and some of those spanish students had just been in germany on the first leg of that exchange. reporter: yeah, absolutely, christine. those spanish students had been in germany three weeks ago, and this was the return leg. and so for the last week 16 german students here in this town just north of barcelona had been continuing to
forecast could complicate things. the flight from barcelona, spain, to dusseldorf germany, crashed tuesday less than an hour after takeoff. french officials say all 150 people on board were killed. the wreckage mostly in small pieces is strewn across a wide area high up in the rugged mountains. we ve just learned from reuters that the french interior minister says one of the plane s black boxes is damaged, but it can still be used to find information. we ve got live torchlgeam coverage for you.clachlan with the latest. rosie tompkins is in dusseldorf germany. family have gathered waiting for word about their loved ones. first, erin recovery team have set up a staging area not tar from the crash site. now that we have daylight, what are you expecting? reporter: it appears as