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Hard for me to give explanation why it started descending. i cannot answer the question at this point. we really have to find out what the reasons are and we need the black box for those, need the information from the location and then we have to find out together with the authorities, the french the spanish, and especially the german authorities and we will do those and quickly. we will have to find out whether the pilot knew what he was doing or not. we cannot speculate. those are the data we ...

Lets see. >> it is too early, we are speculating. we have a successful airplane and more than 9,000 of this model in this world and it has a fantastic record. in the history as well as products -- we have to find out what happened as fast as possible, but properly. we have a question. what kind of accident if it took eight minutes for the airplane to descend? has the pilot had control over the airplane? >> please forgive me i cannot give you answer to that because there are many reasons why this...

System simply meaning the joy sticks that the pilots use to control the aircraft are not directly linked to the aircraft flight surfaces on the wings and tails. simply what that means is the control stick is electronically linked to a series of flight computers that interpret pilot inputs. then if those inputs fall within the parameters programmed into the computers, it allows the pilots to in fact obey that command. in other words, the aircraft will follow the pilots command. however, we have s...

When reviewing the tape you can see the pilot is attempting to raise the nose power the aircraft up to climb, but aircraft systems, those computers overrode the pilots signals, according to the information that has been reported. there is another incident in which a strong cross wind landing was being attempted. the wind was approximately 45 knots, direct cross wind across a runway. an a320 aircraft was attempting to land, and the aircraft almost went off the runway during touchdown phase. it wa...

Previous conversation with bill in terms of the mantra the pilots have. its about navigate and communicate. when the pilots sense there would be an emergency, what they have to do is get the aircraft under a condition where they can then start looking at a navigational airfield. if they are traveling at 400 knots and have an emergency, the pilot wants to convert speed to height. they will get it into a glide profile. im not sure of the speed for the glide on the a320. >> they are at cruising hei...

Call acknowledged, whatever the call sign was, request your intentions. thats when the pilots will say intentions diversion, nice or wherever it is. then they will alert the destination airfield and then they will clear the circuit. they will tell all of the jets in the area to clear occupantut of the way. >> i want to go back to jay who is an experienced pilot. jay, talk to me about what is going on. we were seeing the weather, now youre seeing the actual conditions on this from france 24 our c...

Automatic pilot, that -- im not going to say that is the explanation, but that is an ex-an place. >> an explanation how we would not have a bunch of stuff. >> it is just a huge, huge ocean out there full of junk and maybe the debriss out there, we just havent found it. >> when you look at the salvaging or whatever you bring up, whats -- we know the black box is the priority, hopefully that would tell us what the heck happened, what then? do you leave it rest? >> the black boxes? >> no, no the bl...

Radar was -- data was collected over an hour and 20 minutes. we dont know the rate of descent. and also the turn precipitated the descent, according to the depiction we have. in other words, they made the turn first and it seems look a relatively slow turn if it took them two minutes. that said, we want to give you what might have been a scenario in which something like that could happen, and the way i said it to mitchell is that it is a dramatic decompression. the explosive bam, maybe a bulkhea...

Doing that the alarms are going off and saying that you are descending fast. you want to do get down fast, because you want to open up the windows to get rid of some of the smoke by opening up a window. and then i would have a fire extinguisher in the kcargo hold to suppress the fire, and no word that it would work to put out the fire, and also, we would have oxygen masks, which we cannot deploy, but that is what would be going on. >> and yes. navigate and then communicate. >> yes. and radioing ...

>> some have suggested even if it were cruising on automatic pilot, say the pilots were disabled for whatever reason, runs out of fuel, it could still glide for a while before it actually went into the water. >> yeah. aircraft are inherently stable. but obviously gravity is a very large pull. so had that scenario been the case, then the aircraft would have kept flying. but it would have glided and it would have had a fairly decent glide angle. and that distance would have increased. >> does this...