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Their airline communication, their interairline communication with the crew didnt indicate a problem. but he didnt specify whether the crew may have talked to atc about a problem. so theres an unanswered question that should be asked in the press conference. >> greg feith, i have to jump in we have to take a short break. stay with us please. well come back to you after the break and ask other guests also for their insight into this dramatic story this evening a malaysia airlines plane carrying 2...

Scenario. and now the crews in an emergency situation and going to have to try and find the best place to land. one of the inhibiting factors, of course, is that its nighttime. so the crew doesnt have the benefit of trying to pick the best spot if in fact they have to make some sort of emergency type landing. so there are a lot of factors that we dont know. the other thing is that there isnt radar coverage in all of that area. there are what they call mandatory reporting points because there is ...

We are here on scene, we are just here to collect the perishable evidence, the perishable information, which is, in my opinion, the information that goes away with the passage of time. so we will be tomorrow morning with the assistance of the fbis e.r.t., evidence response team, this el will help us to document the wreckage. well be collecting records that we can analyze later, records for the aircraft, records for the flight crew. well be looking at collecting weather information, the atc tapes...

Aircraft or training of crew members, and even passengers. and we cant stress this enough. many accidents are survivable. its about knowing where those exits are and listening to the flight crew in an emergency situation. very important. >> and let me ask you. i hope you heard our richard quest, who reported that the flight data that hes seen shows a plane that is coming in too steep, the angle of it, and too slowly for that runway. what does that tell you? >> well, you know, were going to have ...

Groups they will break the accident down into. experts in every field from the atc program where they will look at the interaction with the flight crew and air traffic control system. obviously the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. my understanding is they are already in washington, d.c. they will be going through those thoroughly. the human performance group and power plant group will be important here. the systems group. there is a group that studies human factors that is the cr...

But then air traffic control had a delicate job to make sure all the other inbound flights were told to maintain their present altitude, were told to go around, divert to other airports up and down the west coast. they had a very, very big job to orchestrate an emergency on the field. the biggest emergency you can plan for and train for. and at the same time choreograph all of the incoming traffic and outgoing traffic at sfo. that is a big, big job. and, you know, thats when the air traffic cont...

>> its right out near the 2-8 right number on the right side of the runway. >> excuse me. the 2-8 left number. between the runways, there are people right adjacent to the numbers. we can see two or three people that are moving and have apparently survived. >> all right. there is, again, some just 30 or 40 seconds of sound there from air traffic control. captain, what did you hear there? >> i tell you what, the thing about asking the other guys, when you come in on 28, sometimes you have planes m...

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Beginning to use their own little explosive devices to try to defuse the situation inside that leads me to believe, when we talk to the people that specialize in this i think thing this is literally a spider web of stuff and weve been td that from the beginning, when at the looked in the window, trip wires and wires connecting bottles and balloons with powder and gun shells and schrapnel, things that could be used as schrapnel if there were an explosion. and an atc agent has walked to the back o...

However that comes to be, a new democracy? >> i think you can safely say theyre willing to turn over a new page. theyre not yet willing to throw their mix behind this particular government. ive been speaking to a lot of the people on the ground, rebels and others, that have been involved in the fighting. theyre extremely excited about the fact that this chapter is now closed. theres no doubt that now there are going to be a lot of differences politically and ideally about which way libya will go...