Caution Terrain News Today

>> well the, as the airplane descends theres going to be a series of alarms that will go off that you can hear. one of which, one minute prior to impact theres an enhanced ground proximity warning system alarm that says, caution, fer terrain, caution terrain. youll hear that same audio alert 30 seconds, one level higher terrain ahead. pull up. terrain ahead, pull up. >> only in the cockpit? >> correct. in some cases you can hear it just behind the door or maybe in the first row or two of seats b...

>> well i dont think anyone would consciously do that. and thats part of the questions theyre going to have to answer. the airplane reached its cruising altitude. it did not stay there very long. it started the descent. thats one question. why did they need to come down? but once they started that descent, why didnt it level off at a 10,000 foot or some altitude there that formnormally you would preset the autopilot to level off. why did it not do that? thats a second set of questions. and third...