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Pinpoint on it and that car -- the gps system will actually help you get to that point. its not much different than what we can do in the air. thats one way of doing navigation. another way is to use conventional ground-based navigational aids which send up beacons and magnetic signals in which the airplane can orient itself off of. >> can i ask you a question? have you or anyone you know as a pilot ever had occasion in a plane to make a turn like the kind of turn off course that we are increasi...

Have a potential nexus where you can cross over from a, a nonsecure system into a secure system. >> has this been evaluated by any of the governments involved, of whether or not even another passenger may have hacked in? because the problem is, that once we went digital, in cockpits, the only way to overcome by a pilot someone that takes over the controls remotely, is analog. is there anything analog in that cockpit any more? >> no. just about everything is digital flight controls and fly by wir...

Would lose flight controls because the spread above that air speed is about ten miles per hour -- >> what does that mean? >> in other words, the airplane is flying so high the max performance of being able to stay in the air, and the speed controlled he would have, lets say 500 miles an hour, if he went 505, he would get a high speed buffet. if he went 490 miles an hour he could endanger the plane with a stall. but if he did anything like pulling the plane up with a zoom cloud for altitude, the ...

Were now hearing that authorities will confirm that the flight did take this veering off course of some several hundred miles. you say its still most likely it was a catastrophic event maybe dealing with the directive about the cracks in the fuselage but then how would it make it hundreds of miles? >> because the 777 has an interesting system. when you start losing systems, they shut down other systems. its intended to do this. it preserves the flight controls as best that it can and the -- it t...

Flying pilot was out of the cabin on a rest room break. they actually got into a struggle in the cockpit to get control of the plane. and unfortunately, the co pilt pilot turned the engines off and the plane crashed into the north atlantic. so you do have two cases where pilots have deliberately flown their planes into the ocean. >> and is it that -- is it that easy, peter, to simply push a button and the transponder goes off and then no one can monitor where that plane is heading? >> it is not ...

Is no conclusive evidence, coming up with these possible recommendations, there is no conclusive evidence that those electronic devices really do interfweer flight controls, which is kind of interesting. there is one example given in that new york times report. between a two-year period only 21 instances of a suspicion of interfering were reported. >> hold the phone for now, cuomo, the beginning as i would like to say. >> thanks, so much. >> read through it. >> human needle thank you for nothing...

In her prayer and added the airline is working quickly as possible to recover from this accident. these were five women and one male flight attendant. there were a total of 12 flight attendants on the flight. some suffered severe injuries. we now know three of them were actually ejected from their seats and have extensive injuries. wolf? >> the ntsb, national transportation safety board, had a news conference a little while ago, what did we learn from them? >> we are getting more information fro...

Do. >> this is what theyre trained for. >> this is what they train for and this is the what they design the plane. the reality may be something different. >> captain bunn, talk to me a little bit about the dynamic between the pilot and the co-pilot as they approach for landing. what is -- whats the pilot doing, whats the co-pilot doing, or what are their supposed to be doing? >> one persons got to fly the plane, the other person handling the radio. and you swap off every other landing. people ma...

Human error? if it wasnt the enemies, how did we get there? i think thats premature on his part. the ntsb is going to dig in and what they will look at, they are going to look at turbine speed, compressor, they are going to look at all the measurements that come off the engines, the flight controls, the flaps everything. its far better than what is in your car. when you take a modern car interest a dealership which they plug it into the box, they are reading the highest rpm, what your average sp...

No longer had air flow across the flight controls. >> they did a very good job of trying to get control of the airplane. but they just didnt have enough altitude or time to do it. >> the plane staggers up to 325 feet. as its rolled on to its side and slowed down, its uncontrollable, and goes into a nose dive. >> american 191, heavy. want to come back into what runway? >> hes not talkin to me. >> there he goes. there he goes. >> within 31 seconds of the engine severing from the plane, the dc-10 s...