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Pilot out. the cockpit door automatically locks. in the united states you must have two people in the cockpit. so if a pilot leaves, a flight attendant is require today go in. its unclear what the rules are in germany, but this would explain why during the ten-minute descent there is no mayday or any conversation at the ground. take a look at the cockpit of the a320. theres no center yoke or control column. instead airbus uses a side stick controller. so it would be more difficult for a potentia...

American sources there was nothing on the hard drives to indicate anything nefarious, just maybe practicing new landing patterns at different air strips around the southeast asia. >> and as i understand it, and nothing else, either, e-mails, lifestyle, bank accounts, life insurance, you name it. that would be expected. because on 9/11 one of the things including the messages in training the hijackers, they were supposed to avoid the limelight. they were supposed to be on the down low. this guy h...

Minute. it was really extreme. it was during that period that i came into the cockpit. i initially hesitated. i didnt think i would be of assistance and might make things worse. i heard the co-pilot calling for help. i did enter. my priority was to remove the assailant there the controls. i attempted various techniques which over a period of one and a half minutes before the inspiration came to me eventually to gouge his eye. i had been aggressively pulling him. as i was pulling him upwards and ...

And moved across toward the captain and placed himself over the central pedestal and on the lap of the pilot. >> was he armed? >> sorry the pilot? >> no. not particularly. oh armed? no, sorry. he was not armed. however he believe had prepared to do what he was achieving. any how, he placed himself between the controls and the pilot. he grabbed the control column close to his chest. in the next few seconds the aircraft went into an extreme loss of control. officially we soared upwards very rapidl...

To your point. its a two-hutted done push. somebody sudden she the mic on the control column or activate the emergency boat. >> radar. >> gps. anything. >> multiple systems all trying to say here i am, here i am. i am amazed that it is a big ocean, it is a big sky and if you are 35,000 feet doing 500 knots and something goes catastrophically wrong where that airplane could come down is a big ark. they are in the ark searching them. >> no one claimed responsibility f or any terror attacks at that

To your point. its a two-hutted done push. somebody sudden she the mic on the control column or activate the emergency boat. >> radar. >> gps. anything. >> multiple systems all trying to say here i am, here i am. i am amazed that it is a big ocean, it is a big sky and if you are 35,000 feet doing 500 knots and something goes catastrophically wrong where that airplane could come down is a big ark. they are in the ark searching them. >> no one claimed responsibility f or any terror attacks at that...

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 was blown off and i was tied up. >> federal investigators say they will hold a full public inquiry into the crash. >> but what caused the plane to crash? the mystery lies in why the auto pilot suddenly failed to hold its altitude. it turns out it wasnt a mechanical failure but rather human error. according to the ntsb report, when the captain leans across to he...

On top of the wreckage. i couldnt get out. i had no shows on and my uniform had blown up and i was tied up. >> federal investigators say they will hold a full public inquiry into the crash of an eastern airlines jumbo jet near miamis airport. >> but what caused the plane to crash. the mystery lies in why the auto pilot suddenly failed to hold its altitude. it wasnt a mechanical failure but rather human error. according to the report, when the captain leans across to help with a light bulb, he hi...

boehner urged the president to call on harry reid to appoint negotiators to this conference that we now are talking with so much about to try to hash out the differences between the house and senate. as you well know, senate majority reid has no intention of negotiating and as he read in a letter to speaker boehner, along with speaker boehner and all congressional leaders and the white house, they want that deal and senator reid says not until they have the assurance that the tax cut w...

the payroll tax cut. its set to expire at the end of this year. president obama called john boehner today and the white house has even put a counterdown clock on the home page of its website. it says if the house does not act, taxes on the middle class will increase starting the first of the year. lets go to the white house. our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin, is standing by with the latest on this dramatic political showdown. what is the latest? >> the latest is that ...