problem with alcohol and drugs. what do you think? well, he definitely doesn t have a drug problem. as rob has admitted. he feels like he s been drinking too much. i want to be very clear here. rob doesn t come to work and drink. and he doesn t drink every single day. but he does admit that he has excess drinking at times. and he s getting the medical support from a team of doctors. and he s also gone on a pretty steady diet and exercise program. so we re confident that he s going to move forward. but no one has ever seen anything like we ve witnessed come out of your brother in the last week. such erratic behavior. that s right. so much impulse, control problems, obviously, can you not see why people are worried about him? embarrassed about this whole thing? yeah, that was unacceptable.
excuse me, this is wrong. this is wrong. but that wasn t occurring. everything was occurring normally, so up to that point there s no indication of engine problems, flat problems, control problems. you know, no tricky winds updrafts, down drafts, nothing. that s a very important piece of data. i think jim probably feels the same way. you mentioned a tool that was about challenging. what is it called? it s called crew resource management, and the united states has really pioneered it. i m sure jim has been more than trained in it and does it well, but what that means is that the pilot not flying, especially, is supposed to challenge the pilot flying. if there s anything at all wrong. they re supposed to work as a team that challenges each other to do the best things at all times, and we ll want to listen when the ntsb puts out the full cockpit voice recording. if they even did that when they were low and slow. seven seconds out, they should have done it. let s pick it back up. let
they knew it had departed the plane early. you ask the question what could cause a decompression, control problems and the loss of a vertical fin. looking at the plane s maintenance history, investigators learn there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulkhead. that is the structure at the back of the cab than keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the plane s tail dragged along the runway in an accident known as a tail strike. the tail strike with occur in one of two phases of flight, either on takeoff, when the plane is on the runway and it s on a climb, or it can occur on landing where the airplane is in a tail-low, nose-high attitude. either way is it going to create some sort of damage. the row pair of the cracked bulkhead is problematic. the structure is so large, more than 15 feet across, the airplane was built around it. to make the fix, boeing removes the skin of the airplane,
looking at some of the weather conditions in that part of the country. when you look at this, paul, this is a fire that was 6,000 acres on monday. what s the status you re seeing right now of that fire? well, currently the fire is a little over 7,000 acres. it s 50% contained. and actually we were very fortunate yesterday. we had a little precipitation in that area, and so control is being looked at to be effective probably tomorrow evening. what about wind conditions? that s tallas other criterion that you follow. we do. the downdrafts from the summer storms are the biggest concerns for us at this point. but so far those have not materialized and caused any real control problems. how are the firefighters doing at this moment in containing the fire? it increased from a week ago or at least since monday as i was mentioning from 6,000 to 7,000 acres that are burning at the moment. how are they holding up throughout all of this time they ve been fighting fires? well, fairly good
plane stable is fished out of the bay 100 miles away from the mountain. it was quite a distance from the crash site. it departed the plane early. you ask the question what could cause a decompression, control problems and the loss of a vertical fin. investigators learn there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulkhead. that is the structure at the back of the cab than keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the plane s tail dragged along the runway in a tail strike. the tail strike can happen on the runway or it can occur on landing where the airplane is in a tail-low, nose-high attitude. either way is it going to create a damage. the repair is problematic.