information. it s being picked up by the associated press. german wings low cost airline out of berlin. one of their a 320s has gone down. joining us on the phone is our aviation expert. we re getting breaking details regarding this incident with the airplane. a large number of people on board, including crew and two pilots. give us your thoughts on this developing situation. it s a low cost airline in cologne. it has a couple of according to our reports she was lost at about 6,800 feet, which is mountaino mountainous. that implies a possible collision with a mountain, flying at perhaps too low an altitude. it s very unusual for an aircraft of this nature to lose
much from his course. from his flight plan. from his flight plan. that shows perhaps some information he maybe wasn t getting to maybe correct course or there was additional complications. you could have had pilot error to not deviate. you could have had a fuel issue that could have compromised the second engine. a distress was made, what we do know the president of france is saying he does not expect any survivors and search and rescue teams are rushing to to get to that site. german wing gicize a low cost subsidiary of a larger airline. i expect we should be getting a statement from the airlines. those are all facts. it could have been heading towards geneva. and i don t know that. we re speculating. you laid out some facts. and that s all we have for our viewers. you know, it s interesting,
pilot to believe the best thing to do would be go straight ahead. that may have been something. he not have been able to turn the airplane. perhaps he thought he still had engine functionality with respect to the second engine if the first went down. and i heard that speculation earlier with possible fuel problem where you have an engine fail and shortly thereafter another engine fails. we do know this particular airline is a division of a larger airline. they put out a statement that says we do not yet know what happened to the flight. our deepest sympathy goes to the families and friends to tha passengers and crews on the jet. if our fears are confirmed this is a dark day. we hope to find survivors. this plane actually was last in service on sunday. that was the last day it flew prior to this trip.
at 8:45. it took off at 8:45? if that is so, how long would you say they were in the air? we did have reports that it was 80 minutes in the air. that sounds about right from my knowledge of those air routes from barcelona to southern france. that s about a 400 mile stretch. they would have reached maximum altitude of 38,000 feet. that decent, worrying the distress call, we re told at just about 5,000 feet off the ground. also worrying the mother company of the german wings airline, is one of the most reliable airlines i ve travelled on it hundreds of times. the most reliable airlines out there air bus, reliable, too. you ve got to believe something bad happened very fast. we were getting information while you were talking, quick question for you, when do you think the first distress call
when theato towers were aware t plane was having problems? we have just heard 5,000 feet off the ground probably something like as we say, an hour or more into that flight. i don t have exact information on that. as we look at these particular images where the plane went down, it was still 1,000 kilometers from where it was going to sit down. if you re just joining us the news this morning is not good out of the french alps. a german wings, which is a low cost airline, a jet bound from barcelona to germany has gone down. no survivors are expected. they had about 150 souls on board. a distress call was made a little before 11:00 at the local time there.