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Surroundings and issues around the crash itself and what the ntsb is willing to reveal? >> yeah, thomas, this is very much about why the crew of asiana flight 214 failed to notice their air speed had dropped as they approached san francisco last july 6th. whether they truly understood the computer-assist the flight control systems and whether they simply didnt have the skills to land the plane manually. today the korean pilots union suggested boeings auto throttle speed control system had a desi...

Total destruction of the aircraft. >> by the time radio contact is made at 4:53, the connection is so bad, the pilots and controller cant understand each other. the planes are closing in. >> everybody was sort of dozing, working. hear and feel bang. the loudest noise ive ever heard. i was in vietnam, heard bombs. every atom in my body, i felt kind of implode. i have flown as a passenger a lot, you go through all kinds of weather and turbulence and ive never felt an impact like this before. >> be...

But first, why was this launch postponed? >> reporter: well, tamron, each of the shuttles have what they call auxiliary power units on board and they actually drive the flight control systems. well, about four hours before they were to lift off, the heaters that keep these power control units working when theyre needed within the atmosphere, a couple of them went out of whack. it was running high so they looked at it and they said, hey, weve got a real problem here. its just not a indication. so...

The one that we hear about in terms of recording the voices of the pilots, co-pilot, what is happening in the cockpit. and essentially the investigation will focus on downloading the at that tidata cockpit voice recorder and the flight data roerd aeporters and specialists will be able to determine right up to the point that electric cat power was cut off to those systems exactly what happened on that airplane in terms of the flight control systems and everything associated mechanically and elect...

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Board the airasia flight. one passenger from singapore and one from malaysia. and south koreans and one british passenger. the bulk of the cabin indonesian, 149 on board. there were no americans on the plane. it was the first commercial airline to have fly by wire. i flew military tactical jet. called the f-18. that is what i flew in the military. talking about fly by wire technology essentially what that means, you are a pilot we fly more simple airplanes where cessna would put in control input...

Shut down, the flight control systems were reacting. and then, electronic check list, which they depend upon might have shut down completely. they had to refer to maybe a standard paper check list which may be difficult to contend with. and all of this is unfolding before them in a problem that seems small at first to make a bigger issue. that is my contention. >> it flew five hours on auto pilot? >> it is possible. who knows? its electronic airplane. >> lets bring john in. >> i dont like that t...