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>> so whats -- im sorry, go ahead. >> whats happened in this airplane is he was all over the place. he was too high on that visual glide path, he was too low at some points, he was too fast, initially, and then he got slow. now, when the airplane got slow, the first thing that should have happened is the man in the right seat, the first officer or -- i think he was also a captain should have said "captain, youre too slow." and if the captain didnt do something to change that condition, meaning a...

Airplane speeded up. and he didnt do that. >> this morning, ntsb chairman, deborah hersman said the pilots lack of experience landing this plane at this airport was not out of the ordinary. >> its not unusual for pilots to have a first landing coming into an airport. they fly all around the world, there are a lot of different destinations. what you want to do is have a crew thats proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, thats important. >> arthur walk...

Indicator, hes set in the speed hes supposed to be flying, 137 knots, for that weight. and what hes doing is looking at his vertical speed and his glide path, so that the sight picture that he sees is going to put him down in the touchdown zone. >> so whats -- im sorry, go ahead. >> whats happened in this airplane is he was all over the place. he was too high on that visual glide path, he was too low at some points, he was too fast, initially, and then he got slow. when the airplane got slow, th...

Landing system or ils as they call it was out of service for this particular runway. the boeing 777 has a redundant system that can be used in this case and the visual flight. they also have the old-school red light, white light landing system that pilots can actually look off into the distance and see whether or not theyre too high or too low. clearly the glide path into sto was wrong and that will be where a lot of this centers on. >> and certainly were getting a lot more eyewitness informatio...

>> the question is, the glide path on runway 28 left was it inoperable and play a role in the crash? i will tell you that the glide path was noted. it was out of service. it was scheduled to be out of service for construction project for an extension of a runway safety area. it was noticed to be out of service june 1st to august 22nd. pilots have available to them a number of options for how to get the plane in, the right speed, on the right approach, on the right path. one of those tools is the...

Happened. what we dont know and deborah hersman continues to say is why it happened. planes crash because the laws of aeronaug aeronautics is broken in some way. why were they low? why were they slow? why did none of them notice that they were clearly low off the glide slope in thats going to be the -- where she talks about the crm, the crew resource management. how was this crew reacting to each other? how were they behaving as a team? those are the sort of things people looking at as well as t...

Francisco general. we were told by the folks here at the hospital, that the people who were injured, who were brought here, suffered a variety of injuries. the kinds of things that you might imagine would happen in a plane crash, a lot of burns and broken bones and a lot of internal injuries and among the injuries, spinal injuries and neck and head injuries and possibly manufacture those, including brain injuries as well. so a lot of difference kinds of things have happened here. just a few minu...

Francisco general. we were told by the folks here at the hospital, that the people who were injured, who were brought here, suffered a variety of injuries. the kinds of things that you might imagine would happen in a plane crash, a lot of burns and broken bones and a lot of internal injuries and among the injuries, spinal injuries and neck and head injuries and possibly manufacture those, including brain injuries as well. so a lot of difference kinds of things have happened here. just a few minu...

Francisco general. we were told by the folks here at the hospital, that the people who were injured, who were brought here, suffered a variety of injuries. the kinds of things that you might imagine would happen in a plane crash, a lot of burns and broken bones and a lot of internal injuries and among the injuries, spinal injuries and neck and head injuries and possibly manufacture those, including brain injuries as well. so a lot of difference kinds of things have happened here. just a few minu...

Mention about required systems. based on what you heard from the ntsb is there any suggestion that those systems could have helped prevent this if they would have been functional? >> i dont get the impression that the glide slope was the problem. it was a visual approach and pilots are trained to dot that without reference to the glide path. but i am concerned about the power being at idle whether thet auto throttles were engaged because the pilot is supposed to keep hands on the throttles for t...