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Jo joining us now, miles obrien, the science correspondent for pbs news hour. walk us through these. this is the ethiopian airlines flight and the lion air crash five months ago. what do you see here thats similar? >> first of all, top line, this is a graph which depicts terror. this was a wild ride on both aircraft, total roller coaster. just so you know, were talking about here this is the vertical rate of speed. so how fast its going up or down, not across the ground. look at this first peak ...

>> reporter: dan miller is a flight instructor in leesburg virginia. >> anything a instructor can do to prevent a student from doing that. >> as instructors were trained to take the controls from anyone whos doing anything outside of the standard flight regime. in other words if they are not positively controlling the aircraft we have controls right in front of us. we can take the aircraft from the student. he said the instructors have the capability to grab the control yoke which looks like a s...

The details theyve discussed, that this was not a deliberate act? >> theres a couple things and im really reaching. we need to rule it out. number one, this is the control yoke right here. this is how you fly the airplane, with just a joy stick basically. the thought is here, if he passed out and pushed that forward as he fell forward, it would have gone forward, initiated that rate of descent and overroad this, so the airplane would have continued down. even though its set at zero, it would con...

>> well, they would probably take the control yoke as they say and they would push it forward and then use the rudder pedals down here until it came to a stop. >> i asked him what the worst-case scenario could have been at laguardia. >> the worst-case scenario is where the aircraft fails, gets down in the dirt and gets into some type of a spin or even a cartwheel. >> with much of the fuel in the wings, that could spark a much larger fire. the laguardia accident isnt a first. in june 2007 a south...

Thats the control yoke, right? thats the stick, thats what controls airbuses. they differ from boeing because in boeing both the pilot and the co-pilot can feel the pressure on the stick, megyn? in airbuses the other pilot in the plane cant feel the pressure so one doesnt know what the other is doing. thats part of it. airbus says absolutely not, weve been flying millions of hours and aviation experts agree that it was not the stick, but its one thing theyre looking at. megyn: wow. trace, thank ...

Happened at altitude. the one thing as a pilot i would wonder as this flight is at altitude probably has the autopilot engaged so any inputs the crew is making is simply done by a dial. youre not using the control yoke to control the plane at that point. there are just dial inputs as you get instructions from air traffic control. when they were turned over to cyprus, they did not make the handoff, so the crew did not report into that new handoff and thats shortly there after when we saw the rada...

Link between the cockpit controls and the flight controls on the tail, the rudder and the wings. what happens is is the pilot controls the control wheel and the control yoke and the throttles are connected to flight computers that interpret the pilots input. if the computer accepts the inputs it then transmits that data to the aircraft flight controls. what happens is some pilots have reported loss of control of the aircraft without any pilot input. this has been a problem dogging the airbus ser...