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You couldnt question anything. but i got up and i walked out. >> the ntsb is mandated by congress to find a cause of an accident. were actually one of the last industrial nations that determine a single probable cause. >> when congress created us, one of the things that they asked us to do was to determine the probable cause. thats been a part of our statute for over 40 years. >> when you look at a complex accident like this, you cant look at one individual thing, you have to look at the interac...

Indicate survivors or anything? >> it doesnt indicate survivors. it does indicate there wasnt anything significant or catastrophic in the air. if it would have. we were talking turbulence before. and talking things that would have stalled the aircraft and things like that. if the aircraft had stalled. in unrecoverable position it would have crashed into the, and broken into pieces. >> it doesnt indicate it stalled? >> no. >> what does it indicate? it is intact? what does it indicate? >> it indic...

An angle at which they will not fly. they dont provide lift to the aircraft anymore. what about human error here? >> theres no accident that ive ever heard of that was a result of one single factor. its a sequence of events. but in the overwhelming majority of cases, john, human error is one of the primary factors. if you look at the sequence of events in this place or in this accident, i would say that it goes back all the way to their decision to take off in the first place. in retrospect. its...

Bad weather. it could have been human error that exacerbated by the pilot not -- maybe you have to get up and climb anyway. its too much right now to be able to stay for certain. but the clues are now coming in. >> bob, the accountability factor here we have the ceo, tony fernandez, he turned this company around he bought it for 50 cents, they do cheap short flights around the country. he owns a soccer league. does the buck stop with him? what do you think should happen here? >> i lived in asia ...

As searchers continue to search over the java sea. simply put airplanes want to fly. it is very very hard to make them not fly. and whether its a technical malfunction, human error or bad weather, it usually takes more than a single factor to actually bring an aircraft down. that said the weather in front of airasia 8501 was daunting and potentially dangerous even if it only triggered a chain of other events that may have doomed the airliner. tom, take us through what we know about the weather a...

A role. it may be that a mechanical defect played a role. these things happen because you get a cancatenation of problems. its not because you have a problem. i should add what airbus will do probably presuming they recover the black boxes is provide its interpretation of the crew conversations, of the mechanical inputs of the readings from the airplane. there will be a lot of others who do that also. these are multipart investigations with a lot of different parties who either arrive at a conse...

Maybet read the radar wrong. like i said other pilots hours or minutes would have made it through that route. >> butill, thank you very much. i want to add, guys a lot of other pilots had the same idea. if you read the transcript of the conversation between the pilot and air traffic controller he requested to move to a higher altitude. the air traffic controller said hold off. theres too many planes that high at that level. so they were saying other pilots had obviously done the same thing. it t...

They have all these backups built into the planes system so you also have human error so whether someone can adequately troubleshoot a situation in the air, which is an emergency, which is under high pressure so i think a lot more training in that regard would probably be very helpful. >> i think thats going to be the case, when we figure it all out, joe. heres the thing, at 32,000 feet, they sent out a call, we want to go to 38000 feet. then they go off radar. it seems like they were already in...

Australia, theyve done it before. it is closer. if they go to france who is an accredited representation it will take some hours to get the material to paris, to download and it to get to the interpretation done. i would guess either france or australia will take the lead. until you have the black boxes, you cannot really rule out what cause igs may be. we think weather may be a factor. in many of the crashes, human error plays a role or mechanical failure plays a role. what about foul play? can...

Theyre going to be a party to the investigation. so they will have a significant role in the investigation. but then they do in the united states too. thats the way the investigators are set up. once they do start getting the parts and pieces of the plane, what they will do is they will play the role of investigating whats wrong with the part. they will take the parts back to airbus. they will see if they can get them working again. they will if necessary reconstruct whole pieces of the plane to...