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Do go down or they find where it actually went down, theyre going to have to get the recorders underneath there because they do not float at all. they will sink. >> so if they obviously the chances are pretty good they can recover those. when you talk about the ice crystals forming, what other possibilities are there? planes just dont break up in midair although we have that american airlines flight 587 back in 2001. right after 9/11 where they were taking off from jfk, got into a vortex from a ...

Certainly severe icing can. these aircraft can carry a certain amount of what they call air frame icing. theres limits to all these things. thats why the pilot experience and pilot skill are so important. and airbuses are a great airplane. its got a good safety record. im not suggesting theres anything wrong with the airbus design. but we do know theres limits. we have seen hail bring down aircraft. lightning has occasionally brought down aircraft. and certainly icing over the years has caused a...

Information thats inconsistent where the auto pilot is acting in a manner that it shouldnt be. there have been some airbuses have crashed due to the computer system they put a new package in that doesnt quite work right. >> okay. thank you. stick around again. well take a quick break and when we come back stay with us because well go the airport at indonesia where this flight departed. stay with us. [ high-pitched ] nailed it! [ normal voice ] youre right, that was really easy. i know, i told yo...

>> me, too. >> to see that sort of re-enactment. >> where was the captain for six minutes, could have come in and saved the day. another interesting report, when they make airbuses versus the way they make boeings. if the pilots are working against each other in the airbus, the one guy can move forward, the other guy pull back. in the other setup on the boeing, if i, the pilot, i pull back. your control goes back, as well. you are aware of what i am doing. it is a different kind of build-up in t...

Thats the control yoke, right? thats the stick, thats what controls airbuses. they differ from boeing because in boeing both the pilot and the co-pilot can feel the pressure on the stick, megyn? in airbuses the other pilot in the plane cant feel the pressure so one doesnt know what the other is doing. thats part of it. airbus says absolutely not, weve been flying millions of hours and aviation experts agree that it was not the stick, but its one thing theyre looking at. megyn: wow. trace, thank ...

In a big, commercial airliner cockpit. it looks as though its in the cockpit, looks as though the cockpits on fire, and you can often get a smell of burning as well, and he was pretty spooked by that, by all accounts. megyn: you talk about the people onboard that flight including parents who travel separately, one parent brings one child on one flight, there was such a couple split up onboard that flight as well as an 11-year-old boy, alexander, whose picture i believe we have. talk about what y...

february 8th. rick santorum shakes up the republican race. hes coming off a three state sweep in minnesota, colorado and missouri. is an or rum hopes to cash in on his big wins. today hes in texas because an adviser says that is where the money is. so santorum said money isnt everything, but its part of the game. >> were doing very well raising money. i think last night we raised about a quarter of a million dollars online. and we feel like going forward well have the money we need to ...

koulson quit the job in january, and was arrested last month. now, the prime minister is now in the mood to apologize. >> what the public expect is not pedestriany political point scoring, but -- [ jeering ] what they want is to solve the issue out once and for all, and its in that spirit i commend this comment to the house. >> just yesterday rupert murdoch, his son james, and top british executive for news corp, rebekah brooks, were in front of the committee. of course, theres the pri...

Back of the rolls-royce engines. its probably the most distinctive part of the 787. rolls-royce put them there to reduce the noise from the engines and help the performance. if all else fails, look to the beautiful wings of the 787. everyone pretty much agrees the uniquely shaped wing with its sweeping arc at the end, gives it a very distinctive profile. >> the wings, those carbon wings, very graceful the way theyre swept back, the way they unload when the plane lands. its just beautiful. >> rep...

Europeans are so upset by the prospect of american sanctions coming back into force is that a lot of the technology and products they want to sell to iran is american. and their european companies have it on license from american firms. so if our sanctions remove that technology from trade with iran, theyre not going to sell any airbuses among other things because theres too much american technology in there. paul: so you think that might drive them enough to the table to cut a deal with us. oka...