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Get in the high 30 degree celsius. and because you have this cooling, youre worried about inside the cabin and the crews getting heated up. you also worry about humidity inside and the hardware operating. those temperatures would be in an area that would be not healthy for the crew. >> so if this crew needed to evacuate the space station and the damaged spacecraft was their only option how would they navigate these hazards. >> well, the spacecraft does have a number of redundant systems in it. s...

Without that coolant temperatures insided cabin could climb above 100 degrees during a return flight potentially overheating flight computers. russian space officials determined the damaged craft is unsafe to flyntiay raing its crew, cosmonauts and nasa astronaut, russia is fast tracking a replacement ship to launch in february. >> this has certainly never happened before in the history of the space station. >> cbs news space analyst bill harwood. >> itsthey dont have spare sos ready to go in a ...

Does it come down to guts? what is? >> a little bit of everything. it is mental and everything. you want to visualize courses. jumping out of a helicopter at 8,000 feet. of course you have a lot of nerves up there and everything. then, yeah, a lot of training, a lot of preparation and making sure youre fit for the job. bill: andy, how do you train for this? what do you do? >> jump out of airplanes. i make probably 1000 jumps every single year. ive been doing that since i was 16 years old. i have...

Approach to the original runway. then, once flight computers have gotten the airbus into position, hell go manual and circle to land at the new runway, runway 5. flight 5148 begins its descent. they plan to land in 15 minutes, but theres growing tension and a growing problem in the cockpit. the captain is getting behind his breakthrough jet. >> getting behind the airplane is a widely used statement to say that the pilots thinking of whats going on is behind where the airplane actually is. >> at ...

Then, once flight computers have gotten the airbus into position, hell go manual and circle to land at the new runway, runway 5. flight 5148 begins its descent. they plan to land in 15 minutes, but theres growing tension and a growing problem in the cockpit. captain hekay is getting behind his breakthrough jet. >> getting behind the airplane is a widely used statement to say that the pilots thinking of whats going on is behind where the airplane actually is. >> at 7:13, the captain switches to m...

This report. what does it say to you? >> this is the report. essentially it describes this flight from dusseldorf into barcelona, thats the flight immediately prior to the fatal crash back to dusseldorf. it shows data from the flight data recorder which shows the co-pilot programmed erratic altitudes into the flight computers while the captain was out of the cockpit. thats what youre looking at there, erratic altitudes programmed into the flight computers, moves that have taken the plate down to...

System simply meaning the joy sticks that the pilots use to control the aircraft are not directly linked to the aircraft flight surfaces on the wings and tails. simply what that means is the control stick is electronically linked to a series of flight computers that interpret pilot inputs. then if those inputs fall within the parameters programmed into the computers, it allows the pilots to in fact obey that command. in other words, the aircraft will follow the pilots command. however, we have s...

The faa and the united states issued a warning to airliners with regard to the 777s, fire wall and the flight computers being inadequate and they felt it could be breached theoretically from the entertainment system in the passenger seat. >> that is a scary possibility. >> yeah. >> yeah. and the 777 also has an unsecured hatch to the major avionics bay where all of the planes computers are located an runs the cockpit and -- and runs the cockpit and everything on the plane and outside of the cock...

Air traffic control initially denied his request to climb but if it had been an emergency situation, if he had felt for any safety reason he had to climb he certainly would have. one thing that is unusual with airbus pilots ive spoken with this week is 38,000 feet, which is altitude he requested to climb to is 1000 feet below the max service ceiling of that jet. so if youre in rough air most pilots dont want to get up near that service ceiling in those kind of conditions. that is a little unusua...

Separate whats known as a black box or a data recorder from the -- >> flight data recorder. >> we know they can withstand a whole lot. assuming they are able to quickly recover those, what is the most important information theyll be looking for to try to figure out how this could have happened? >> you look at the flight data recorder records parameters engine speed, temperatures flight control positions, attitude of the aircraft air speed, different flight computers, and what they were sensing. ...