the taser being dropped. you re a police officer 24 years this new york. when you look at that evidence i m not asking you to be judge, jury what does that look like? something looks funny. the way he dropped it it was like he was walking and like he wasn t dropping it. like he wanted to hide what he was doing. the assumptions it might be the taser. we can t tell. we have to get the video enhanced. we have to read the real police report. even though he was videotaping, he was probably a lot closer to see what was going on. did you ever catch a cop prfor planting evidence? yes. so it does happen. paul i want to talk to you about the legal requirements for
ice over. but sometimes at altitude they ice over anyway. it s just a natural artifact of being up there. when that happens, if you re in the cockpit of this plane, you would no longer know precisely how fast you re moving. and that affects a lot of things because, believe me, when a plane like this is flying, the thing they re relying on is the instrumentation, not looking out the window to tell them where they are. that raises the possibility not necessarily a probability, but the possibility that this plane could have been descending very rapidly toward the ground, smoothly and the people in the plane did not know it was descending. that s what happened with the air france crash over the atlantic ocean. that s something they have to certainly look at. and then, tom, just to the right of you on the viewers screen right now, we re getting some of the first live pictures coming in from the rescue staging area. this is seyne-les-alpes in france.
this pitot tube issue was really the problem and the pilots didn t know they were descending somehow, like the 400 flight over the caribbean, then there could be the problem. they couldn t see the ground because you can t see the tops of those mountains because of the cloud cover and the fog today. chad, i m just going to throw this out there. but you can t defend on a plane without equalizing your ears, you would at least know from the feeling, right? you know there must be something else going on here and i don t know what it is. but this thing appeared to just fly and keep its speed up, keep the speed up at 400 miles per hour but not dive out of the sky at 600 miles per hour. it flew and it flew at a straight line at 26 degrees, just to the east and northeast, flew there for about eight minutes. so they didn t even try to move the plane around. something s going on here that we don t know and the black boxes, i know they re painted orange, but they will know
continuing our live coverage right now of this plane crash in the french alps. i want to bring in senior cnn meteorologist chad myers who s standing by. one of the big headlines in this crash is the weather conditions as that plane went down and the weather conditions still moving in for those who have to go into this. and when we see the ceilings lower down below that 6,000-foot level with rain and snow, those helicopters that are going to be so instrumental at least for now will be grounded. they re not going to be able to fly in the alps when you can t see the ground. and maybe that was part of the problem today. we don t really know. this is what the weather looked like at the time of the crash. going back 24 hours. we see that most of this snow, most of the rain was south and into parts of the mediterranean. i know you ve seen this graphic a lot of the day. the flight path where it was,
over the alps. but also this map here where you saw the flight altitude go straight down. let me give you a better indication of what that truly looks like from our guys at flightwise.com. the flight path, the distance, the pingers and all the data we get, able to put right onto a map showing the plane coming out of barcelona and climbing, finally leveling off and very close to marseilles starting its descent. the descent looks more like this. not that big sharp drop-off. about 3,000 feet per minute. the irony is here, is if the pilots had a problem and they were ascending down to here, this is 100 miles from that spot to here. they coasted or whatever for 100 miles. marseilles s airport, 11,000 feet long was only 30 miles away. they could have diverted to that airport. but they didn t. did they even know they were on their way down? if the clouds were in here and