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There is a secondary cabin pressure controller, thats a secondary computer system. and then, there is a manual controller. so there are -- its a triple redundant system, that means that if the primary controller fails, the flight crew switches to the secondary controller. if that feels they can switch to manual. any one of the systems is fully capable of maintaining safe cabin pressurization. in fact, if anyone of the either computer systems are inoperative, they allow the operator to continue f...

That row. they had put the oxygen masks back up in the panel. thats the other thing we suspected. it did deploy and was working. on to systems. our systems group focused on the cabin pressure control system on the aircraft. this is the autopressurization light that illuminated that we have gotten a lot of questions on. this system is designed as a triple redundant system, with one primary cabin pressure controller. its a computer system. there is a secondary cabin pressure controller. thats a se...

Process. if we had a fire situation our objective toys get the airplane on the ground as quickly as possible. >> john, can you show some of the other systems down there. depressurizing, some of the other things that are possible to look at? >> theyre tough to see. but collins makes radio gear. you can see here, well give them a little commercial, collins radios extensively used. hamilton standard makes lots of controls on airplanes and some electronics. we saw cabin pressure controller on the ot...

Controls on airplanes and some electronics. we sought cabin pressure controller on the other side. we have here control units for certain actuators. the 777 is a digital airplane. its run by electronics. even connections from the pilot, theres only i think seven cables in the whole airplane for the flight controls. its a fly by wire airplane with minimum backup. >> heres the traffic alert and tcas as they call it. when you get too close to another airplane. >> theres the cabin controller right h...

You can see here, well give them a little commercial, collins radios extensively used. hamilton standard makes lots of controls on airplanes and some electronics. we saw cabin pressure controller on the other side. we have here control units for certain actuators. the 777 is a digital airplane. its run by electronics. even connections from the pilot, theres only i think seven cables in the whole airplane for the flight controls. its a fly by wire airplane with minimum backup. >> you can see some...