problem, the navy pulls the equipment out and brings it here. each component of this system is evaluated for its own performance. the lab will put all of them together to see how it did as a system. they can replicate the exact flight profile where a problem was reported to determine what went wrong with the system. so this chamber is the simulated cockpit. so this chamber would be the pressurized portion of the aircraft. this chamber, as you d can see, has two breathing simulators, mechanical breathing simulators. we have selected a lot of data. now we re getting into the analysis. that is starting to inform some of the things we think we need to address. sarah joiner was hand picked by the team. she s been on the job since late
another. what effectively happened pilots put the aircraft into catastrophic storm, lots of lift over the wing and the aircraft descended into the sea. not knowing the information was wrong because it was frozen over. they weren t aware what was going on in the cockpit. when we talk of this notion of the crew being unaware incapacitated may be one, but also an interesting case study of a flight profile they weren t aware of because of automated systems. correct me if i am wrong, that case they were flying over the ocean, since they didn t know they were experiencing the problem, didn t call it in. this is a crew that dialed in the 7700 knew there was a problem, then descended all those feet from 36,000 to 5,000, although mountain ranges there go up to 10,000. but did so over a period of time. during that period of time there was no communication saying i got to get to marceilles, or
one i think will be resolved fairly quickly, because they have found the data box, and there s no reason why they shouldn t find the voice recorder. once we have typically the voice recorder, we know the flight profile, then the only question remains is what system may have failed or what would have incapacitated those pilots. there s a number of theories floating around but until we get our hands on the facts, we won t really know. captain rollins, stay with me. steve wallace, thanks for your time tonight. thank you. still ahead, what we know about this plane that went down in the alps what are the potential signs of a mechanical problem? also president obama making big news today about the war in afghanistan. how fast will our troops come home? and new video of that alleged drunk driving by secret service agents. tough questions tonight about
have done it did do, i m thinking about the 298 people on board. and i know this is trying to be delicate, at least for these people, these children, these adults, was it quick? yes. i mean, we can assume that there was a debt nation outside of the aircraft itself. and at that point, you know, the aircraft would have been almost immediately rendered, you know, the flight profile would have deteriorated in such a degree that it would have very rapidly started losing altitude at that point. so it is a weapon that, like i said, is not so much one that will impact the aircraft directly but the damage that s caused in the exterior aircraft is enough to ensure that it will likely disable the aircraft if it does get a direct hit on it. reed foster, defense analyst
close enough to hear them at this point but we re predicting that by mid next week you ll see them switch operations, reel in the towed pinger locator and go to the underwater submersibles, the bluefin. the bluefin-21. how fragile is that equipment given the nature of the water? it s going to be going down two, three, maybe four miles. well, it s built to withstand the pressures at depths, but it s not built to ram into rocks. there is a need to understand what s on the bottom before you put this submarine down there. they would typically map the bottom to get a good idea of what kind of terrain they re looking at so they can determine a flight profile for the submarine flying underwater obviously. i don t know if they re going to take that step. it would be a very cautious step. if you think about it, we only have one of these vehicles in theater, so we don t want to lose it. we don t want to damage it. we definitely want to use it as cautiously as possible. frankly, there s not a