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Tell him what position the aircraft is. flight 447 in that accident the air speed indicators were not working and he no idea what speed he was. whether he was under speeding or -- designee didnt know. sometimes youre in limbo up in the air. >> thats right. whereas in this case we dont know. your point was good we dont know what happened. people say why your speculating. why are you doing this? its horrible for families. the reason we speculate is to assist in the finding of the aircraft. where i...

Side of the plane that air flois in as -- flows in as well. the comparison is fair although the tubes that could be blocked are different. >> right, they are different. its a different model, although both flights were airbus planes. jeff no may day call. no pan pan call which is a little lesser degree no distress call surprising? >> not really, in fact the case of airfrance 447, there also wasnt a may day call or a pan pan call. when a plane gets into danger into trouble, the pilot might have s...

The surabaya international airport. this is where they are getting updates from airline officials and airport officials about the most current search efforts being updated on a regular basis. theres also a passenger manifest posted behind me and you see people coming up and looking at it. what struck me is when you go down the list you see families two, three, four five even six people from the same family on that passenger manifest list who were on that plane. we had a local producer who spoke ...

And what transpired once they had entered that severe weather. >> a lot of questions to be answered. bill savage thank you for helping us. up next the heartbreaking message from the pilots daughter. plus lessons learned and the differences between this flight and the disappearance of flight 370. were back in a moment. ive smoked a lot and quit a lot but ended up nowhere. now...i use this. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent the urge to smoke all day. i wan...

Control. captain always has the ability to declare an emergency and do whatever he needs to do to maintain safety of flight. >> okay. so spencer tweeted, i could figure it stalling. but why could this plane not just steer down? do you think the engine could have been hit by something? >> well you know in a thunderstorm if they entered a thunderstorm the ingestion of precipitation and particularly hail may have damaged the engines, and caused the power interruption which would then you know neces...

Their cockpit, theyre thinking maybe if we go here lets go better. lets request to go up here there were thunderstorms in a line all the way, they could have turned left or right for 50 miles and still been in the same type of weather they got into anyway. this was a matter of getting the plane too slow as they approached these things. you know its the reason why we dont fly jets into the hurricane. they are propeler airplanes, because they wont have that problem with a possible wind gust cuttin...

But that could be any number of things that caused an upset here. >> this has been going on quickly about five years from now. what can we learn from this? >> first, its time that the regulators band aid that you have real-time tracking on inging the airplanes. you have air france in 2009 where it took months to locate the main wreckage two years to recover the black boxes. you have malaysia 370 from earlier this year that they still dont know where the airplane is. now you got this flight where...

The thunderstorm and couldnt find a hole or was maneuvering too close to the center of the cell. >> lets talk about the tubes. weve been hearing that word being repeated a lot today. thats because they were a huge concern with airbus aircraft for some time. according to our meteorologist, just compare that flight to todays. rick wright our meteorologist says icing in this case is almost impossible, even at 32,000 feet that the temperature would not be cold enough to cause significant icing, so t...

Ten of the underwater drones and they can all go to different areas. with the machine you can cover much more sea bed per unit time than conventional systems. >> it is fought lick the missing malaysian plane that went way off, perhaps, in the india ocean in deep, deep water or air france flight 447 that crashed in 2009 off the south american are you confident and optimistic wreckage will eventually be found and they will recover the black boxes? >> i do believe so. because of the lack of deep ab...

Much. >> well have continuing coverage of the michiganing flight 8501 throughout today. families now on edge. they are anxiously waiting any possible word about the status of their loved ones on board that flight. this is questions are being raised about the weather, pilot systems and what could have gone wrong.