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>> the crew suspects nothing more than a faulty light bulb. the co-pilot starts to replace it, but he cant get the new bulb to go in. >> they fought with this thing for several minutes. the captain then instructed the flight engineer to go down and see if he could manually see an alignment stripe that is on the nose gear that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. meanwhile, the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb...

The captain instructed the flight engineer to go down and see if he could manually see an alignment stripe that is on the nose gear that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb. >> this is where the insidious nature of human error begins to show itself. ideally someone does nothing but monitor the autopilot. but with the difficulty that the first officer was having with the b...

>> they fought with this thing for several minutes. the captain instructed the flight engineer to go down and see if he could manually see an alignment stripe that is on the nose geq) that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb. >> this is where the insidious nature of human error begins to show itself. ideally someone does nothing but monitor the autopilot. but with the dif...

More than a faulty lightbulb. the co-pilot starts to replace it but he cant get the new bulb to go in. >> they fought with this thing for several minutes. the captain instructed the flight engineer to go down and see if he could manually see an alignment stripe that is on the nose gear that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb. >> this is where the insidious nature of huma...

See if he could see an alignment stripe that is on the nose gear that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb. >> this is where human error begins to show itself. ideally someone does nothing but monitor the auto pilot. but with the difficulty that the first officer was having with the bulb, the captain understandably wanted to try to help him. no one was concentrating on mon...

Beverly feels the plane turn away from the airport. >> i wasnt concerned because things like that happened and if there was a problem, we had a phone by each of the flight attendant seats. if there was a problem the pilot would have called us. >> to troubleshoot the problem, the l-1011 climbs to 2000 feet. then heads towards the everglades. the captain puts the plane on auto pilot. >> everybody wants to find the solution. thats just nature. we want to accomplish the mission. >> the crew suspects...