Hand Flying News Today

And the pilots are all highly train, highly experienced hand flying pilots because even in the interview sessions they are tested for their hand flying skills. in the simulator during their interview process. theres no such things as amateurs at the airline level. >> would more than flying have made a difference perhaps, in this case? >> well without the black boxes we dont know what condition the airplane got into so its hard to then draw an analysis of what they should have done. but i can tel...

Talked about a few days ago. we go through the night. at 2:15 a.m. youre at 11:00 a.m. in the morning. the plane was last seen on a satellite. the acars system transmitting information stopped and there is part of a transmission on board the plane that still connects with satellites as it goes, maybe every hour, every 60 minutes. that handshake we talked about at 8:11 a.m., the last handshake apparently took place. where was the plane? we have an aviation attorney and aviation law professor and ...

The plane would land short of the runway. in the end of the news conference they spoke about the weather conditions, saying it was all clear at the time of the crash, and the pilots were using visual flight rules when landing. can you describe that to us a little more? >> sure, in poor weather conditions, they will use autopoilt and the computer flies the airplane down to minimums and where we will break out of the clouds and so the runway and the pilot turns the autopilot off and land manually....