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The two black boxes, but theyre two boxes encased in an orange aluminum shell, so the investigators can find them, even in a fire situation. >> greg feith, do appreciate your time. the pilots are on set with me here. dan rose, aviation expert, military pilot, an attorney as well, and captain bun, 40 years of pilot. thank you both for sticking around with me. we found out a few hours ago, and i didnt know this, that the black boxes are actually orange, apparently. i did not know that. i assume, o...

Greg pointed out, is right there with the ntsb from the get-go. they have a go-team, just like the ntsb does, and when one of their planes go down, they have the team that goes out there and investigates or helps the ntsb investigate. >> captain bun, we have -- youve been with me here for several hours. weve spent a fair amount of time looking at the tail of this plane, whats left of the tail of this plane, and based on what weve seen and based on the eyewitness accounts that weve heard on our a...

Francisco? >> yeah. thats pretty much the standard protocol. theyll gather all of this -- all of the debris and remains of this aircraft, and theyll put it in a local hangar. theyll find one from somebody. and then preferably theyd like to be as close to the airport as they can. just one other point. we often talk about chairman debbie hersman. she prefers to be called chairman. yes, shes a woman, but she prefers to be called chairman of the ntsb. so we fulfill her wishes on that. >> yes. chairm...

We expect to hear from the mayor of san francisco. also the san francisco fire chief as well. at this point, hopefully, were hoping at least that we get some precise numbers on how many folks were aboard whats left of the plane you see there, the number of casualties, number of injuries as well. but, again, you are looking at whats left of asiana flight 214 bound for san francisco from seoul, south korea. captain tom bun is in the studio with me now. captain bun spent 40 years as a pilot. he fle...

Of about 700 to 800 feet per minute. thats what the airplane will seth in settle in at. if they got into an excessive sink rate, that makes it hashder for the crew to arrest it at very low laltitudes. and in this case, theyll be looking to see if they tried to stop it and they couldnt. >> what would cause a plane to go into this excessive sink rate that he was talking about? >> the plane flying too slow. but the question is, flying too slow. i can think of only a couple of things. either the pil...

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