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Emergency water handling of a u.s. air jet in new york with 155 passengers and crew on board. all survived. the captain of the airasia plane likely had about the same skill set based on his experience according to commercial pilot and author. >> captain sullenberger would say he would have been just as xenl to perform the miracle on the hudson. >> what we dont sng what happened in the cockpit before the plane went off radar. the includes include the prengs of bad weather in the area and the requ...

Skating around the point which is that this was a dramatic catastrophic incident which took the plane out of the air with tremendous force and rapidity. >> there was a two minute lapse, the pilot asking air traffic controllers i want to ascend so i can escape this storm and turbulence. two minutes go by air traffic control tries to contact the pilot again, no response. so does it seem feasible that whatever happened happened shortly after that initial response with air traffic controllers. >> ab...

Controllers guidance. >> what disturbs me is did he begin a climb without a clearance from air traffic control, that might be indicative of an emergency problem developing. >> reporter: there was also no known communication before it went on off radar. not necessarily a radio malfun shun. >> were trained early on to navigate and communicate being the last thing. if indeed the contributing factor was the weather, the last people that would be able to help you is air traffic control. >> reporter: ...

First and then tell the controller what theyre doing and so the controllers responsibility under radar control to separate the other aircraft from it. so that could be a cultural difference just in the region it could be communication issues or whatever but the captain was fairly experienced with 20,000 hours and 6,000 hours in type. >> so colonel, from the air traffic control perspective, that two minutes, they had at least six planes around n the air from what i can remember. would it ache the...

Circumstances, you know i cant second guess another pilot because im not there. none of us know for certain. but you get these type of monsoon thunderstorms. very violent. even at very high altitude you usually cant outclimb them. you have to go around them. and i believe that you know there are circumstances where you have to tell the controller. >> yes. >> that you are taking the heading change and he can just work it out. >> right. but isnt that true though? when you see and you have felony -...

And can you get boxed in. so, if you reach a point where you are running out of options, you have to do the right thing because its almost like this. if the controller tried to vector you into another airplane, he couldnt do it in a million years. so you forget about that aspect of it because if you -- you dont want to be in a situation where there is a thousand and one chance you might hit another airplane and trade that for a 50/50 chance you may get upset at very high altitude. the higher the...

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. >> the controller here speaking to ho chi minh. he says good night 370. something i would do. >> ...

Good morning, im carol costello. thank you for joining me today. darkness falls amid the last glimmer of hope. airasia confirms the debris found overnight off the coast of borneo is indeed, the wreckage of flight 8501. crews have recovered at least one body but hospitals are bracing for the grim task of identifying the remains of the 162 people on board. the the jakarta post detailing the final communication. the captain asking permission to climb to 38,000 feet to escape a storm. two full minut...

Perform the miracle on the hudson. >> reporter: what we dont know is what happened in the cockpit before the plane went off radar. it could include bad weather in the area and the request to move to a different altitude. what the captain may have done with that information is still an open question. for example, whether the pilot may have tried to disregard the controllers guidance. >> what disturbs me is did he begin a climb without a clearance from air traffic control, that might be indicative...

Believed they had a problem he should have declared an merge sand expressed to the controller that would have given that pilot and aircraft priority and the controller would have by law, basically regulatory law have had to accommodate that question but if it was just hey, we want to climb, that wont have prime assy over traffic separation and the responsibility of that controller. >> greg great to have you with us tonight, appreciate your expertise on "the ed show." >> thank you very much. >> t...