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Its only 2300 kilograms, basically the weight of a door put it in comparison. a 747 you and i fly on is about 400,000 kilograms. it needs anything less than 7 kilometers of crosswind. you can imagine, paula that with winds picking up dust and sand from the gobi desert, its not going to allow this particular plane to take off. >> no. i certainly hope they have a team of meteorologists in tow to make sure they are safe on that journey, and i know youll continue to keep us on top of that jrn journe...

When reviewing the tape you can see the pilot is attempting to raise the nose power the aircraft up to climb, but aircraft systems, those computers overrode the pilots signals, according to the information that has been reported. there is another incident in which a strong cross wind landing was being attempted. the wind was approximately 45 knots, direct cross wind across a runway. an a320 aircraft was attempting to land, and the aircraft almost went off the runway during touchdown phase. it wa...

>> and go ahead, miles. >> all right. start out with laguardia airport with 7,000 feet of runway, it is a varsity airport landing site for sure for experienced airliners. the md-88 needs about 1,000 landing runway, and on this day, the ceiling is low and the navigation equipment will allow you the land this in worse weather, and so it chose to land on the runway even though the wind did not favor it, so this particular airplane had a quartering tailwind meaning a crosswind component. and two thi...

Wind. meaning, they had cross wind as well as were being pushed by the wind. they would have been landing faster and would have compensated for the cross wind. >> should this plane have been flying in these conditions? >> yes. the aircraft are fit for that. they can land in those conditions. as miles was pointing out, we can go back to that. theres anti-skid systems on the aircraft. many times you land with the brakes nearly on right as you touch down and let the anti-skid figure out which needs...

Runway no overrun area. its a dicey airport on a good day. this was by no means a good day. this was very marginal conditions. you had a runway that the term is contaminated meaning it was icy. the question of what the braking capability on the runway is very important. they were landing downwind meaning they had a tail wind which would mean the aircraft was going faster relative to the ground and it was also some component of that wind was a cross-wind which would have caused instability potent...

>> i spoke with one passenger who described the feeling of the plane sliding. two planes actually lafrndnded shortly before this. the pilots didnt have problems. what was going on? >> a couple things to think about. weather, of course is extremely dynamic. it can change by the minute. we were at that point in time the wind was shifting around. the rain was turning to freezing rain eventually into snow. so what happens between just a couple of minutes can be very different. each aircraft can be d...

The spring and the fall and the lights happened in march where the air is completely still. there is no cross wind that would disturb a formation of that kind. >> i think probably its got something to do with military. some government experiment which would seem logical to me. i dont think -- i dont know if theres evidence of it being alien spacecraft. theres no way of knowing that. >> given that we are one star in 100 billion in our own galaxy and there are 100 billion other galaxies out there,...

The autopilot is disengaged and ends up producing a nose-down vertical dive. if it was a controlled ditching, then you -- if you had a very good pilot and ideal conditions, you might end up with a sullenberger type landing but most likely like the ethiopia crash. >> what if the pilot was trying to land the plane in the water. as a pilot, can you talk about the difficulty of attempting a water landing? >> well, it depends on how big of a mechanical situation hes facing, of course. just landing in...

Cockpit. interesting fact, this would never happen on an american flight because the copilots are never allowed to be left alone. a flight attendant would step into the cockpit if one of the pilots needed a restroom break. and a plane no match for strong winds in england. the pilot did whats called a crab landing. thats when cross wind forced the planes to land at unusual angle. no one was hurt. peter? ♪ ♪ alert the food police. ads like this prompting some major legal battles. >> made w...

Range that youre trying to hit. and they have parachutes attached to them so they descend slowly. >> but witnesses are not so easily convinced. >> to blow this off as flares is a joke. its been a diversion for 15 years. i mean, it was a very easy answer. when you look at the footage, because the footage doesnt do it justice. >> ive seen then dropping flares and they didnt look like flares. they looked much brighter. plus they had a consistent pattern to them. when flares are dropped theyre sort ...