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Questions about who exactly is to blame for flight 901. >> everybody has got opinions, but a lot of the evidence just has never been considered. >> but one thing both reports agree on, weather was a key factor. >> the record shows that they had thought they could get into clear air below the cloud at about 2,000 feet. >> a weather condition called sector whiteout made the flanks of mount erebus seem to disappear. the optical illusion caused the approach to lewis sound to look identical to the ap...

Questions about who exactly is to blame for flight 901. >> everybody has got opinions, but a lot of the evidence just has never been considered. >> but one thing both reports agree, on weather was a key factor. >> the record shows that they had thought they could get into clear air below the cloud at about 2,000 feet. >> a weather condition called sector whiteout made the flanks of mount erebus seem to disappear. causing it to look identical to the approach they believed they were flying over mc...

Going back to that navigate bit of the mantra, pilot looks up, looks at his equipment and says wheres the nearest airfield. . the chances are the airfield is going to be concealed by cloud. you can see if the pilot is trying to land this aircraft the airstrip if its within the proximity of the region will be covered by cloud up until whatever the cloud base is. the cloud base is on the peaks of the mountain. its going to be an incredible difficult situation because the pilots are not going to ge...

5,000. and the speed, this is the important bit, there was a speed reduction from over 600 nats to 200 knots. that gives a rate of descent of 3 to 4,000 feet per minute, which isnt unusual. >> or dramatic. its occurring, but its not a dramatic fall. >> so the interesting bit for me in terms -- >> let me interrupt you. tease are pictures of the alps. . . i wanted you to e see this. this is our friends at france 24. now some video, very clearly showing the rugged aspect the difficult area that the...

That this helicopter had been down roughly almost 12 hours ago. to give you a sense of how foggy its been, i want to show you behind me rkts this, this is one of the staging areas. its along a five mile stretch. where we are right now that area right there was not visible just an hour and a half ago. the cloud base was just about 200 feet. conditions that would make it very hard for aircraft. staff here tell us they go and practice and train in these situations rain or shine regardless of what t...

Area now has a higher priority. the air and surface searches for flight and wreckage today are already in progress and completed as planned in the available dialect. tomorrows searches will be adjusted to count for any new information. up to 10 military aircraft, 2 civil aircraft and 13 ships will assist in todays search covering an area of 216,000 square kilometers. fortunately the weather in the search area is expected to remain good with a cloud base of about 2,500 feet and visibility greater...

The air and surface searches for flight and wreckage today are already in progress and will be completed as planned in the available daylight. tomorrows searches forging flight and wreckage will be adjusted to account for any new information. up to ten military aircraft, two civil aircraft and 13 ships will assist in todays search which will cover an area of 216,000 square kilometers. fortunately the weather in the search area is expected to remain good with a cloud base of about 2,500 feet and ...

Broad vicinity. the first aircraft departed for the search area at 6:00 western standard time this morning. a total of 26 state emergency service volunteers from western australia, new south wales were workers on three of the civil aircraft. the other civil aircraft will operate as a communications relay. the weather forecast for todds search is fair with visibility at about 10 kilometers. and a cloud base between 1,000 and 2,000 feet. the royal australian navy and royal navy have today commence...

Know much about that? >> that is not my area of expertise, i spoke to a few sources, so what i do know is it is very slow, accurate, but takes a lot of time. >> and literally combs the bottom using sonaell me which is best to use in this case? >> you know, i think they all bring their own unique capabilities. we talked about this constraint. this has an endurance of 13 hours, five hours to get out to the site, five hours back, you only have minimum loiter time. this travels at high altitude, it ...

Decision -- they can do a low altitude search where they -- i dont actually know what the cloud base is there. you can get under the clouds. the challenge with that is the endurance of the airplane at low altitude is not as good at high altitude so they wouldnt have as much search time. also with low altitude, you cant see as far away. so you have a more limited search area. we will be very -- it will be very challenge to go do a search right now. >> one thing, if these are images, objects from ...