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Similar to malaysian flight 370 if march a year ago where the airplane made several coordinated turns and went off on the steady flight path. that had to be human manipulated and i think thats the case here. >> scott, just one other question. this system designed to keep people out of the cockpit, this door system, you know, the pilot could have dialed in a code to get in, but was unable. were really seeing the system work in reverse now. had that pilot been able to get in the cockpit, he could ...

Would it prevent another incident like this? well, maybe not. each is its own set of circumstances. but i think it would reduce the likelihood of a rogue pilot doing something like this again. >> scott, its important to point out, as i mentioned earlier in the news cast, its still early in the investigation, yes? but the prosecutors believe there are key pieces of evidence that lead them to suspect that the co-pilot crashed intentionally. what is the most damning piece of evidence from your expe...

Intelligent systems in place, though that monitor certain parameters on the airline like the a320 has an angle of attack protection mode that it monitors and regardless of the pilot inputs on the control, does not allow them to exceed a certain angle of attack. and its relatively easy as a software engineer to conceive of and implement similar code that would restrict them to certain bounds around their planned flight path and to have air traffic control and the company, monitor that. and if the...

Airplane and the pilot outside. i hope -- we again, are going into a bad area. if we have an airbus guy here on the panel, i want him to respond to this thing about the law youre in and whether or not you can attack just bump it or accidentally move the stick and have it just and all those other things. remember the only thing that changed was altitude all the way down to the ground. >> david, that was your point earlier. to not have any deviation from the flight path other than the descent. >> ...

Controller. so it would be more difficult for a potentially incapacitated pilot to slump over the controls pushing the plane down. now look at the flight path, its steep but very smooth. remember it descended for ten minutes indicating the pilot didnt justin add vert ently push forward and they are fly by error aircraft which means the pilot tells computers what to do. theres been no explanation as all as to why the computer did not override the pilot. the bottom line here megyn this is very tro...

You have somebody potentially inside who knows everybody on the outside cant get in. he could have taken their time. but also it could also be the other end of the spectrum where he or she could have passed out and wasnt able to have the -- pilot wasnt in control of the aircraft. >> darell i want to bring in our panel. we were talking about this before. it is very difficult to put ones self in the mind frame of somebody who wanted to bring down a plane and to say well, they would have done it th...

So it would be more difficult for a potentially incapacitated pilot to slump over the controls pushing the plane down. now look at the flight path, its steep but very smooth. remember it descended for ten minutes indicating the pilot didnt justin add vert ently push forward and they are fly by error aircraft which means the pilot tells computers what to do. theres been no explanation as all as to why the computer did not override the pilot. the bottom line here megyn this is very troubling. >> t...

>> that is a regulatory requirement here in the united states. overseas each government has their regulatory body making those decisions. i firmly believe the system we have in the united states is the way to go, if for no other reason thanks if you have a single pilot in the cockpit, i believe that pilot should be focused simply on flying the aircraft ensuring that the aircraft flight path is where it needs to be and that everything is being taken care of and having a second individual responsi...

The auto pilot because the plane is flying on auto pilot. and typically if someone was to follow have a -- to have a high pockia event, be overwhelm -- hypoxia event, be overwhelmed, the plane would ton a designated flight path. its interesting in technical area to visit. the other scenario is that one of the pilots left the cockpit, was then outside, was then locked out, and deliberate action by the other pilot to take the plane down which has happened before. certainly it take the onus of the ...

Input. then you let go of it. it would take that controlled input, knowing you intended to start your descent, so it will start the descent, wherever you let go of it. it will maintain that exact flight path. if you let go of it. its not going to many could up like this. its going to continue in whatever you did. this would have had to be a bump and it would have had to be directly forward. because remember there was a bigno change in the flight path. its hard for me to believe that a bump in th...