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On themselves and pooping on themselves, doesnt it seem they should have made a decision to kind of let everybody off, as opposed to sitting there and saying, if you get off, you cant get another fight for days? >> greg: i think what you are seeing is another example of what you call an unbending mind. this is when somebody is in charge, will not bend because of rules. and you see this whenever you get a ticket from a meter maid. no matter how you talk, it just doesnt change. it is true artifici...

The problem. kristin: and so, you know, in addition to the software issues, some members of congress, during this hearing this week, were very critical of the training for the pilots and some of the pilots themselves. in fact, they blamed the pilots, some lawmakers, for the ethiopian and indonesian crashes. do you agree with that line of thinking? >> not really. i think what we always find in an accident its not usually one event, its a chain of events. yes, the pilots were there in the airplane...

Years ago. on wednesday, a year and a half after negotiations first began, gross was able to embrace his wife judy who flew to havana to take him home. judy gross was joined by a team of congressmen. >> on the airplane back, as we finally crossed into u.s. air space, you saw him give a big hoorah. >> we were flying there and watching some of the news on the airplane, and i said, you know, alan, youre free. he got up and threw his arms around me, hugged me. >> reporter: then a phone call from the...

Get the airplane back was an apology from the united states. heres the most populous nation on the face of the earth, china. they want to save face. if the most populous nation wants to save face, i mean, everybody wants to save face. its the human condition. so when you enter into a crisis negotiation like that, the thing is you have to let the other side save face. and you have to really work toward a solution. you have to respect the other side. the president, the white house, and the senate ...

Thats the part we dont know irvetion wouldnt a plane of this caliber warn you about the altitude? >> sure. im sure when we hear the cockpit voice recorder tapes, we will hear the audible in the background, doing the pullup call that it does as the technology basically calculates how close the aircraft is to the ground and how quickly its approaching the ground. it says, hey, if you dont realize you are close, you better know it right now. apparently, they were not able for some reason to get the...

Knowledge, potentially pilot, was in control and that mechanical failure seems less likely? >> absolutely. with what we know now, the fact that the systems were shut down, the way they were shut down, it sounds that somebody had to have a very high level of knowledge. this isnt somebody that just learned to fly on a computer sill simulator. this is somebody with an intimate knowledge of how the systems on that airplane work. when you look at it from that standpoint, there had to be human interve...