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This plane will also feature original mosquito parts. weve rescued this control column from canada. - obviously, your flaps, your gears, can all go in the mosquito. - a standard, eh... standard. ..instrument panel. yeah. which you would set from your compass. weve got to bring it back to life as she was designed. _ what�*s it been like to see these pieces of equipment from original mosquitoes, and the thought that they�*re going to be going back in another mosquito? i cant believe that theyr...

Mr. John Arthur Tiley was born in England, January 7, 1936. When he turned 18 he joined the Royal Air Force and was assigned to be in secure electronics for

The 737 family is a safe airplane family. >> reporter: 200 airline officials, pilots, and regulators here at boeing in the simulator. even boeings ceo learning about the new software upgrade to the latest 737. both brand new maxes that crashed nosed up and down dramatically right after take-off. in the first crash, bad data triggered an antistall system which the pilots fought, but didnt shut off before crashing. boeings software upgrade will make it harder for that system to initiate, and easie...

This means a 200-pound person would feel like 1,000 pounds. >> you didnt know if your brain was going to explode or what. everybodys face was pulled back, stretched. >> you couldnt move your mouth, your arms, anything. it was complete silence because you couldnt even make a sound. >> when they were trying to figure out what was going on, the crew found themselves with their faces pressed down on to the control column because the g-forces were so strong. >> reporter: the forces of the air and g l...

From the tail. >> emergency, emergency. >> reporter: they have fallen another 20,000 feet in less than two minutes. the airplane breaks through the cloud layer and by chance it is oriented right side up. >> now they had a natural horizon to work with. they could look out the windshield and see which way was up and down and which way was wings level. >> reporter: but there is only 11,000 feet left between the airplane and the ocean. >> i can see the water, the waves break. it is getting bigger an...

Enormous exceeding five times the force of gravity. this means that a 200-pound person would feel like 1,000 pounds. >> you didnt know if your brain would explode or what. everybody face was kind of pulled back like stretched. >> you couldnt open your mouth. you couldnt move your arms. you couldnt move anything. there was complete silence because you cant even make a sound. >> when they were trying to figure out what was going on, the crew found themselves with their faces pressed down onto the ...

>> what was the last thing you remembered in this crash? >> i dont remember nothing, man. >> but this flight attendant patricia mcquigg manages to stay alive. >> i was up in my jump seat high on top of the wreckage. i couldnt get out. i had no shoes on. part of my uniform on and i was tied up. >> federal investigators are going to hold an inquiry into the crash of the jumbo jet near miamis airport. >> but what caused the plane to crash? the mystery lies in why the autopilot suddenly failed to ho...

Stabilizer separate from the tail. >> they have fallen another 20,000 feet in less than two minutes. the airplane breaks through the cloud layer and by chance, its oriented right side up. >> now they had a natural horizon to look with. they could look out the windshield and see which way was up, down, and wings level. >> but there is only 11,000 feet left between the airplane and the ocean. >> i could see the water, the waves break, its getting bigger and bigger and bigger and you have a magnify...

But that pilot could not get back in. the official says the cockpit voice recorder indicates quoting, "the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and then he hits the door stronger and no answer. there is never an answer." he goes onto say, quoting "you can hear hes trying to smash the door down." so at this point there are two possibilities. the pilot inside the cockpit was either incapacitated though theres no sound of distress, or he deliberately kept the other pilot out. the cockpit doo...

But that pilot could not get back in. the official says the cockpit voice recorder indicates quoting, "the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and then he hits the door stronger and no answer. there is never an answer." he goes onto say, quoting "you can hear hes trying to smash the door down." so at this point there are two possibilities. the pilot inside the cockpit was either incapacitated though theres no sound of distress, or he deliberately kept the other pilot out. the cockpit doo...