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>> need some headlines? we got them for you. we now know it was human error that played a role in that deadly crash of airfrance flight 447. newly released transcripts show one of the pilots ignored an alarm that the airplane was stalling. the f.b.i. may have a break in the case of the geezer bandit. they say he dropped his dayplanner at the scene of a robbery last week. hes robbed 16 banks in southern california and now the cops have got a big clue. all right, gretch and brian, over to you and ...

euro. they will have no budget deficits, have automatic sanctions, they will have stricter rules, tighter regulation. the whole thing will be much, much better run. theyre going to get on and do that. the only problem is the united kingdom said no and could become troublesome in the future. i promised i wasnt going to be boring and bore on about it, but the one thing they did also do was increase their firepower. the so-called big ba zuk ka to stop the contagion. hundreds of millions o...

christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. >> its a full week. >> and ali is preparing to eat one. >> thats right. >> so theyre off today. im carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to "american morning." first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much...

And government. >> kate, what are the fears that a lot of folks have expressed about electronic voting? is the lack of a paper trail. how do you settle those fears that human error or even vote rigging wont help steal an election. >> the joy for us in using the ipads is that we had a paper trail. the voter used the ipad to mark their ballot. the signal was sent to the printer and there was a paper trail. im a firm believer in make being sure we have a paper trail. i won my first race by seven vo...

Recognizes the signals and does it. and its not just the brits experimenting with this sort of mind control. swiss researchers are trying to help the handicapped control wheelchairs with their thoughts and nissan is working on a program that would anticipate your intentions and eliminate the kind of tedious actions that are riddled with human error, like, for instance, steering. researchers say the biggest hurdle to all of this is getting the program to recognize our cluttered brain patterns, so...

When the boeing 707 crashes into a hillside in oyster bay, the cockpit breaks off, killing the pilot and flight engineer. theyre only 16 miles from the airport. >> come on, somebody get the back here. >> miraculously, 85 of 158 people onboard survive the impact. >> they are pinned beneath the wreckage, but there is no fires. >> clearly, the plane if the plane had been full of fuel they would have been all incinerated. >> the ntsb report says the cause of the crash is human error, that simply the...

On the honolulu airport ground crew. >> its one of the most interesting stories in aviation accident investigation, because initially it was thought that the people closing the door had not done it properly and the door had not been sealed and latched properly. >> a number of employees that work for the airline had come forward after the problem saying, of all the individuals that work in honolulu, this person was the least likely to not close the door properly. he was known for being very metic...

Knowing. so this legislation is very significant. >> the companies let them down a lot. they didnt give them the tools they needed is what it came down to. you had two relatively inexperienced pilots. its a fact of life. eight years earlier there was another air disaster over new york also caused by human error. an air bus a 300 takes off from jfk airport to the dominican republic. soon after take off the plane encounters turbulence. it rolls, pitches, and suddenly the tail snaps off. the plan...

>> for this flight attendant, who was critically injured, the hearing is an emotional experience. >> i was filled with gratitude when a passenger who survived came over and thanked me for my actions. >> as a consequence, intersection departures at night are no longer permitted. while on the runway, pilots are permitted to remind air traffic control that they are waiting for instructions. >> these types of procedures were completely capable of being done before the accident. this was a totally pr...

Just poor judgment. all these crashes are caused by human error. >> the devastation to the entire operation is catastrophic. its one of your own has potentially made an error that has resulted in this calamity, this tragedy. there are many reasons why planes crash. weather conditions, mechanical difficulties and structural failures. but according to a study by the faa, more often than not the cause is just plain human error. >> human error shows up in about 80% of aviation accidents. if you fi...