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Flight instruments were damaged by weather. youre instrumental in the air france investigation. we know that the instruments played a critical role. what questions do you have what thoughts do you have about perhaps the role of instruments in this? >> well were going to have to wait michaela. in the case of air france 447, the plane was, found in several miles of water beneath the atlantic ocean. i dont recall looking, what the results were looking at the cockpit instrumentation, certainly they ...

Million flights worldwide. lester? >> peter alexander, thank you. were joined now by greg feith, our nbc news aviation analyst and a former ntsb investigator. you saw him a moment ago in katy turs report. im going to ask you to put on your pilots hat. lets look at a typical aircraft weather radar display looking at storms we see the green, yellow, the red. presumably the red is the rough stuff. if youre a pilot looking at this, how do you decide to go around it? >> you look at this graphic and y...

Building on airport grounds. only the pilot was aboard the plane. five people were taken to the hospital, and as of now, four others are missing. anthony roman is the president of roman and associates, a global investigation firm specializing in aviation investigation. you know this plane and that facility really well. >> i do. inside and out. its terribly ironic that i flew this very aircraft when i flew corporate airplanes. and i trained in that very building to fly this particular aircraft. >...

Is an operative word. last time i was there, i took in a show called "will a rev" which i believe means, "the dream requests. ." what i saw, im pretty sure human beings are not able to do. even in vegas. these men and women walked on water. and sometimes, this water caught on fire. liegtsds would swirl around and music would play and ill tell you, i thought the whole thing was a spectacle. i thought to myself, who is responsible for that spectacle? whoever that person is, they must be a wizard o...

The operative word. last time i was there i took in le reve, which i believe means the dream. what i saw in the dream, im pretty sure human beings are not supposed to be able to do even in las vegas. these men and women, they walked on water and sometimes the water caught on fire and then sometimes these men and women theyd fall from the ceiling like 80, maybe 100 feet through the air and into the water that they were previously walking upon. lights would swirl around and music would play and il...

They must be a wizard, somebody i would like to meet. i decided if i ever had the chance to go back to vegas, id check out la reve. watch the show once again. poke around backstage, ask some questions and see if i can get some answers. assuming i live through the flight. success. that was fun. no, i didnt have to pee. ♪ ♪ i took a road and wandered and i knew it ♪ ♪ i found a place where people laughed and put their hearts into it ♪ ♪ it aint the job, it aint the pay, no matter how y...

A dc-9 is heading from dallas to toronto when the cabin and cockpit are suddenly filled with toxic smoke. the electrical systems shut down, making it nearly impossible to control the plane. >> the captain was faced with a unbelievably difficult task. >> barely able to see through the thick smoke, the pilot tries to get the plane back on the ground, but passengers are already succumbing to smoke inhalation. june 2, 1983. air canada flight 797 has a normal take-off and climbed to cruising altitude...

A dc-9 is headed from dallas to toronto when the cabin and cockpit are filled with toxic smoke. the electrical systems shut down making it impossible to control the plane. >> the captain was faced with a difficult task. >> barely able to see through the thick smoke, the pilot tries to get the plane back on the ground but passengers are already succumbing to smoke inhalation. there is a normal take-off and flight 797 has a normal takeoff and climbed to cruising altitude. but about 2 1/2 hours int...

>> almost out of fuel, the plane approaches the camoros islands off africas east coast. as the plane descends, the hijackers fight the pilot for control of the plane. >> i said, "guys, this is finished now. we are all dead people now. let me do it my way." and decide -- i dont know how they did it, disengaged the autopilot. >> disengaged it? >> he did. >> from this -- >> from that control. >> right. >> and then, i disconnected the autopilot and then i had to start flying it myself. >> in the cab...

Were, at least those pilots were able to do their jobs without having to wrestle terrorists in the cockpit. >> that captain was under a different kind of stress than weve seen in these others. >> absolutely. he not only had the issues of having to put the airplane in the water, he had people on board that were trying to kill the airplane and everybody on board with it, including themselves. >> its november 23rd, 1996. ethiopian airlines flight 961 from ethiopias capital to nairobi, kenya, should...