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But her mother and father are among the dead that include 149 other passengers and all eight crew members. mercedes, one of only four survivors is in critical condition with internal injuries and a broken pelvis. >> my gi track intestinal area had to be operated on and rerouted to get better. >> black boxes recovered intact prove the boeing 757 was functioning perfectly. now investigators have to find out what caused the jet to crash four minutes before it was supposed to land. according to colu...

Among the dead that include 149 other passengers and all eight crew members. mercedes, one of only four survivors is in critical condition with internal injuries and a broken pelvis. >> my gi track intestinal area had to be operated on and rerouted to get better. >> black boxes recovered intact prove the boeing 757 was functioning perfectly. now investigators have to find out what caused the jet to crash four minutes before it was supposed to land. according to columbia civil aviation, it comes ...

Says three words that cause tension in the cockpit to soar. where are we? the flight management computer has inexplicably sent the plane in the wrong direction. >> the instrument said what you put in this box says you need to make a turn and go back in that direction. well that created a situational position confusion for the flight crew. >> first officer williams has taken manual control while the crew desperately try to figure out where they are in the dark and whats going on with their comput...

But her mother and father are among the dead that include 149 other passengers and all eight crew members. mercedes, one of only four survivors is in critical condition with internal injuries and a broken pelvis. >> my gi track intestinal area had to be operated on and rerouted to get better. >> black boxes recovered intact prove the boeing 757 was functioning perfectly. now investigators have to find out what caused the jet to crash four minutes before it was supposed to land. according to colu...

Them to need to come down. thats the first question. secondly as they started descent, which was controlled because it was not an emergency descent, in emergency descent, it would have descended much more rapidly. it was controlled. the airplane stayed on track. that indicates that the airplane was still being flown by auto pilot, under the flight management computer. that indicates it was a controlled descent. normally in a descent like that pilots will set an altitude for it to level off. typi...

Something is going to go terribly wrong. but i think that during that descent, they may not have had any questions about it, other than why are we descending but the point of impact, my point is there was no suffering, no painfulness. it was within seconds, within a second probably. that is when this occurred. i dont think there would have been pain and suffering at least. >> david, other crashers, twa flight 800, they basically reconstructed the entire aircraft. in a situation like this where y...

Cockpit voice recorder because theres a microphone over the captain, theres a microphone with the first officer and theres two area mikes as well. >> are there different sounds? depending on whats wrong on any given airplane, do the sounds differ depending on whats happening? >> absolutely. >> really? >> absolutely. so you might get a warning horn that will tell you one particular fault. there will be a warning chirp for another fault. there will be a siren for another fault. if the flight manag...

Quickly. im not sure which one, but they should get a pretty quick read on at least what control inputs were taking place at the time. with the cockpit voice recorder what was happening in the cockpit at the time. what you describe this point of the flight its actually probably the one point they get relax as much as you would like to, the top of climb. toc, they get to a point they hit their altitude. there may be a step climb. my guess they probably wouldnt in a flight this short. the plane is...

Functional, i agree with geoff on that. the reason it didnt perform is because you have to have a participating air traffic control in the system. i dont believe they participated. as far as turning it off, its not the transponder that turns it off, but a function on the 777 of the flight management computer and then it can be turned off. next gen is going to the united states because we are participating in next gen. with other countries. europe is participating. other countries are and im not ...

Adsb 2 and they would have information constantly about every other aircraft that may even cross their path. >> would it still be possible, les, if a pilot or a co-pilot were able to determine a plane went missing, would it still be possible to do that, to make a plane go missing? >> well, dave and i talked about this new system, the satellite-based system. the airplane regulates the system. t they send it to a satellite system, the ground system sends it to air traffic control. this is what i u...