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So im not overly alarmed at this point. >> when you hear something like in the report the pilot landing innive believe reagan national airport and the tower was unmanned. >> after that point they mandated two controllers in the tower at all times. when that incident happened there was one in the tower cab and there was no alternate controller up there. >> we were hearing also from the former chairwoman there were turn around sometimes. the government requires a nine hour turn-around for people w...

Even read it. >> but how did this flight end up in such a dire situation? after failing to land at st. martins juliana airport in bad weather, captain dewitt decides to divert. first to the nearby island of st. thomas. then to st. croix when he finds out its even closer. but as the plane is climbing away from the airport in a torrential downpour, theres a problem. >> my navigator said to me, balsey, my god, look at the fuel gauges. >> because of the wind, the turbulence and the conditions, the a...

Airplane was because it was below their field of view. >> start to lift. >> start to lift. >> the 172 struck the leading edge of the right wing about halfway across the span, and that is the famous picture. you see smoke and fire trailing from the right wing of the boeing 727. >> as a result, it pulled the nose further and further down and they couldnt stop it, and they lost control. they did not have control of the jet, and it tragically went into the ground. >> in its final report, the ntsb fa...

So, when they do collide at that high velocity, there is total, typically total destruction of the aircraft. >> by the time radio contact is made at 4:53 p.m., the connection is so bad, the "legacy" pilot and controller cant understand each other. the planes are closing in. >> everybody was sort of dosing or working by hear and feel. bang! the loudest noise i ever heard. i was in vietnam and ive heard bombs, but just, bang! and every atom in my body i felt kind of implode. >> ive flown as a pass...

Anecdotal evidence that mull over the world, particularly in europe, of this transponder unit failing without any indication whatsoever in the cockpit that it had failed. >> components do fail. so, its not that its necessarily been turned to standby. its a failure. >> in brazil, one air traffic controller described by the judge as unqualified and incompetent is acquitted. another controller is convicted of negligence. in its final report, brazils ntsb equivalent acknowledges the failures of the ...

Screens several feet apart. this is against regulations. but a common practice known and tolerated by skyguide management. on one screen, nielsen is busy coordinating the arrival of a delayed airbus. he doesnt notice that on the other screen, there is a conflict between the russian airplane and the dhl cargo jet. >> the controller was overloaded. had a lot of responsibility. an overloaded controller is more prone to make errors. >> to make matters worse, nielsen doesnt realize the ground-based o...

That violate regulations. >> one of the things that was really examined in this was the workload of the controller and his diversion of attention when it came to actually identifying the conflict and then providing timely conflict resolution prior to the event. >> the accident leads to a clear defining of the role of tcas. pilots around the world are now trained to give tcas advisories priority over the instructions from air traffic control. >> this accident showed the critical importance of a w...

They were searching in the right rare or move the search? >> well the initial search, when the plane first crashed i think that they were probably -- my opinion searching in the wrong area. now what we see because this debris is going follow a current, so i do believe that theyre searching in the right areas now because the debris is going to follow wherever that wing was. thats a dead give away for where the other stuff ended up. okay. the other breaking news where the close calls and the dro...

Well, according to an automatic message sent from the aircrafts communication system, called acars. richard quest is an aviation correspondent for cnn. >> think of acars as a giant smartphone, that will send out huge amounts of information via satellite or by radio transmission. >> then at 1:19 a.m., a standard handoff with air traffic control, as the plane leaves malaysian air space, and enters vietnamese air space. >> malaysian 370, contact hoe chi minute 120 decimal 9 good night. >> the contr...

The streets. here with me now, new york city controller, scott stringer. thanks for being with me. talk about this controversy. i know you have a different opinion on this. >> the bottom line is our transportation infrastructure is changing in new york city and around the world. yellow taxis dominated for 30 years because they understood how to navigate the political process in new york. >> what does that mean? >> in other words, they were able to get the rules put in place that they needed to b...