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Getting the information off is good. >> yes, weve been able to recover the information from the recorders weve received. >> reporter: hes a measured, cautious man, prerequisites for a job that includes not just knowledge, but patience, lots of patience. >> we obtain a raw data file, which contains just ones and zeros. >> reporter: the boxes contain a wealth of information, up to 2,000 separate pieces from the data recorder alone. high technology built into a waterproof, fireproof, shockproof she...

Cautious man, prerequisites for a job that involves not just knowledge, but patience, lots of patience. >> from the flight data recorder, we obtain a raw data file. >> reporter: just ones and zeros. >> which contains just ones and zeros. >> reporter: the boxes contain a wealth of information. up to 2,000 separate pieces from the data recorder alone. high technology built into a waterproof, fire proof, shock proof shell. at the end of this complex shane of information and analysis can be this, an...

First, the bomber loses a wing, then the aircraft suffers complete engine failure. its soon clear to spectators, this is not part of the show. >> stay where you are. this is okay. stay where you are. >> friends and family i was with were out on the fishing pier, and they saw it as it was happening. i heard quite a few people yelling and screaming. >> the stealth is plummeting to the ground. the pilot attempts to crash land in a nearby lake hoping to spare lives on the ground. with only seconds t...

Happen in flight. if it does happen if flight, or any time, youre better prepared for it. sometimes you do things as a pilot because maybe you know youll never do it in the air. i mean, the simulator is part entertainment and part training at the same time. so now i have to keep an eye on the speed and the timing is critical here for an engine failure which is on takeoff. and basically seeing if mitchell can handle it, which hes already done this before. and its practicing the procedures. he not...

Congratulations. thanks. >> yeah, very nice. i was asking les obben, a 77 pil 7, have you ever had an engine failure at takeoff? >> ive had to abort a takeoff at 90 knots. it was a procedure that was familiar to us. >> are you happy you have enough runway in front of you that you dont have to go airborne? >> if i had to continue, it wouldnt have been a problem either. its part of the recurrent training process. what they just went through was a very similar thing that we practice all the time, a...

Straited wi demonstrated with a decompression. could be an engine failure. >> there are a lot of exotic emergencies you dont get to practice in your recurrence. you always practice engine failure on takeoff and certain ones -- >> also if youre doing this, its your passion to fly, you want some fun in it, right? dont you want to try something you wouldnt normally try? im just asking. also, mike wants to talk about the effects of decompression. mitchell and marty? >> when we go through training we...

Format. >> we connect the recorder to a power supply. >> reporter: black boxes contain hundreds of data points or parameters about the flights movement, pilot maneuvers, speed and altitude, all displayed with a series of graphs. >> every flight data recorder records the data in binary values. its a series of ones and zeros. in order for humans to understand that, we need to convert it into engineering units, and engineering units simply mean feet for altitude. airspeed is recorded in knots. >> r...

Possible one would flame out after the other. mitchell believes that actually one engine if its still running would compensate automatically for that, right? >> yeah. we have a thrust asymmetric compensator in the 777. so yes, in the event of an engine failure, any asimilymmet cross will be. any airplane big or small most of the time its going to be designed to be stable. >> were still descending, still going down, still level. its possible you could wing over and die. >> miles, the thing about ...

Board. any engine failure. all the communications equipment was apparently turned off. you have five radios, the two transponders, to acars, the odds of that failing at the same time absent a catastrophic event has got to be very, very long. because boeing designs this airplane to be redundant and to separate the electronics so that you dont have a multiple failure at one time. >> and then on top of it the plane under this theory would have had to fly another five, six, seven hours crippled in t...

Parents are on the first leg of a trip to hawaii. >> my mom and dad always had a big kickoff for summer. we normally would have been with them. however, they decided about six months before that they were going to hawaii. >> a few minutes before 3:00 p.m., the plane is cleared to taxi to runway 32 right. at 3:02 p.m., its cleared for takeoff. our investigative animations are about to turn you into an eyewitness to a horrific accident. >> the flight crew, flight 191 starts their normal takeoff. a...