Sounds like logical steps to take as dealing with any situation. our will ripley just spoke about that dramatic drop in altitude. again, is there anything that you draw from that bit of inrmation that we ve gathered? again hard to say. i have sn the reports from the flight tracking sites, and there was a radical i mean, dive, pretty much, at the very tail end of the flight. looks like it was a very sudden instant. it s hard to say with any certainty what happened, but whatever happened was clearly, you know, very dramatic. the crew would have been the fact that they didn t get from my understanding, there was no may day, no distress call, they didn t adjust their transponder to say there was an emergency. the fact that they weren t able to get that out is quite interesting. and then lion air, what can you tell us about this budget carrier? is there any information that, you know, it s worth looking
Navigating. germanwings flight 9525 with 150 people on board went down in the snowy french alps where peaks are as high as 10,000 feet. what seemed like a routine flight from barcelona to dusseldorf suddenly turned deadly. the flight took off at 10:01 a.m. local time. flight tracking sites show the plane climbed to a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet before starting an unplanned descent, dropping to 11,400 feet over eight minutes. it seems to me it was still a controlled descent. around 52 minutes after takeoff, air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane. its last known altitude 6,000 feet. then flight 9525 disappeared from radar. translator: a terrible very sad day for germanwings and the whole lufthansa family. i have to inform you that we ve been informed that a germanwings
With more rain and snow on the way our correspondents analysts are guests are standing by with the latest developments. i ll speak live with the former national transportation safety board chair. let s start with pamela brown. the cause of the crash is still very much a mystery, the plane in the crash considered the workhorse of aviation. it has an impeccable safety record and just received a maintenance check yesterday. yet just as it reached cruising altitude today, a terrifying turn of events took place. tonight new images show first responders carefully traversing the jagged french alps where the germanwings plane went down. investigators say just three minutes after the doomed flight reached a cruising altitude of 32000 feet usually the safest part of a flight something went horribly wrong. flight tracking sites show the plane cruised to 38,000 feet