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Descent? >> well, chris, until we recover the data recorder, we wont know for sure. but the descent, while rapid, was also steady. it took ten minutes and the increments, apparently, were about the same every minute. so 3,000 to 4,000 feet a minute. what suggests to me that it was probably on auto pilot. that they were not actually flying the plane, which may support the theory that they were incapacitated and couldnt fly the plane. the plane, apparently, was in tact, according to eyewitnesss, b...

>> if the plane were to experience some kind of catastrophic engine failure, would we expect it to plummet more rapidly than the trajectory that it appears to have followed? >> thats my understanding. if it had lost capacity in the air, it wouldnt have just done a steady stairstep kind of climb down. it would have spiraled down, it would -- some other formation. but it wouldnt have just slowly descended, even though it was 4,000 feet a minute, thats a reasonable landing rate, if you will, but ob...

Injuries. standing by with much more in our west coast newsroom is our very own trace gallagher. trace. >> and, sean if you look at the crash scene this is a very good indication that harrison ford is a heck of a pilot. he took off this afternoon from santa monica airplane where he keeps planes. he was no more than a mile into his flight headed toward the pacific ocean when he heard the engine quit. and the world war ii era military plane began turning around. i want you to listen now to harriso...

It. >> oh, man -- [ bleep ]. >> oh, no. >> come on dude. >> ford was seriously injured and is recovering today in the hospital. he had radioed the control tower just after takeoff. >> 53178 engine failure with immediate return. >> clear to land. >> ntsb investigators have arrived at the scene, fords son tweeted afterward that his father is battered but okay hes expected to make a full recovery. hallie jackson joins me. it is very scary and could have been a whole lot worse. >> reporter: andrea h...

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In real life he had that same sort of -- you could tell it was urgent but he had that same sort of demeanor. what happens to an airplane? if he has engine failure that basically turns into a glider. how does he get it down and keep himself alive? >> what he has to do is understand that he doesnt have power. he knew that. and he has to feather the aircraft, bring the nose up so that he cangets the maximum amount of lift under the wings. he also wants to keep the airplane to the point where hes go...

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