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Back. >> could the plane have flown for the ten minutes it was descending on autopilot? >> if he set the autopilot for descent yes. >> so that could have been autopilot and not a pilot flying that plane for that descent? >> yes. >> but what about the fact some are saying it was a controlled descent? does that change your answer? >> no. autopilot flies the airplane better than most pilots can hand fly it. so i would say that it could have been an autopilot set or could have been the pilot steerin...

I mean, what if the pilot had a heart attack? >> it is possible. it is possible. but its not very likely. >> is there any way depressurization happened and the pilot passed out and thats why the other pilot couldnt be let back in? >> but what about the rest of the airplane? if the airplane depressurized, it would get everybody including the pilot and the people in the back. >> could the plane have flown for the ten minutes it was descending on autopilot? >> if he set the autopilot for descent ye...

Floating around on the golf course. >> the great thing is it doesnt mess up the grass as company founder say. >> you use absolutely no trace. >> now some golfers might be tempted to take a club to the hover craft. it makes about as much noise as an electric leaf blower, make that several leaf blowers. though they have reduced the engine noise some and plan to do it more. actually, bubba, youre supposed to say fly it, not drove it. the controls are on a handlebar like a motorcycle. its a little l...

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This says that the airplane was off track. it says several things. one, that the airplane was intact for some period of time. to let it get off track. and that something catastrophic was going on within that airplane. so, once we have more debris and particularly once we find the main part of the wreckage, the investigators will be able to start to put the pieces together to understand what happened. >> the captain of the plane had a lot of experience. he had 18,000 hours of flying time. and is ...