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Worldwide in terms of civilian airliners carrying 20 or more people the total number of fatal crashes worldwide has ranged between five and 15 per year. but when planes crash, not because of mechanical failure or weather or accidental pilot error of some kind -- when planes crash because a pilot has become a mass murderer there is no technological panacea, at least not one that we understand yet. i mean the double reinforced bulletproof doors put in place after 9/11 were obviously designed to st...

Announced today is that in addition to that noise of the pilot trying to get back in in addition to that noise, in the very last instant, you could hear the passengers on that aircraft screaming as they realized what consequences were of this drama at the front of the cabin. the drama they could see happening at the cockpit door as they realize the consequences for them as that speeding plane was going into the mountains. planes do not crash often. in the last ten yearsing with worldwide for civ...

Because of mechanical failure, weather, accidental pilot error of some kind, they crash because a pilot has become a mass murderer, there is no technological panacea. the double reinforced bullet proof doors were designed to stop a 9/11 style attack again. it was designed to stop hi jackers coming forward. since they were strengthenned, in some instances, the reinforced doors have enabled threats to passenger planes because they emanated not from the passenger compartment but from the forward si...

Descend from c no reported weather issues? %-pwasita mechanicalailure? pilot error? cnns tom foreman runs down some of the possibilities in our virtual studio. >> this descent was somewhat rapid but not so fast that anybody in the cabin would necessarily have noticed it until they were actually able to see the mountains right outside the windows. and that sort of dispenses one of the theories about what happened that it was a catastrophic failure in the air, that the tail or wing tore off. if th...

Been pilot error? >> well i dont think youd rule anything out at this point, wolf. pilot error is on the list as investigators go through the three big buckets that they look at which are, the human being, the machine and the environment. im downplaying that initially at least. the machine itself we need to look at the maintenance records, so if there was some specific problem with the airliner and the cockpit voice recorder and i suspect theyll find it in due course because the wreckage while i...

A-320 crashes that were deadly resulting in 980 deaths on the planes or ground. the first crash shortly after the plane started service in 1988. air france flight 296 skimmed the top of trees during an air show demonstration flight. the cause, the flight by wire system and pilot error. in 2007 flight 3054 crashed on landed in brazil. a reverse thruster had been deactivated. it crashed into a cargo terminal. 187 passengers and crew died plus 12 on the ground. the deadliest crash for an a-320. cau...

To either of those locations were this particular crash? were they taking off, landing, should they have been at 7,000 feet? >> it was lost at 6,800 feet. yes, that is heading into a mountainous area. so, yes, there is a possibility of simple misreading of an altitude or a control problem that brought the aircraft down into a position where it became -- >> jp, so there could be pilot error, could be something that malfunctioned with the instrument panel and the reads that prompted them to be at ...

Board and you remember the passengers evacuating on to the wing. and then a crash in sao paulo, brazil. one of the thrusters were detact vated before the flight -- eactivated and so it crashed into a concrete building and caught on fire. here you see the ammage of the after math. all 187 people on the plane were killed and people on the ground. and a crash during an airshow. it failed to gain height and crashed into the trees while performing a maneuver in haversham, france. and there were 133...

Of the people on the wing. all 155 people on board survived after evacuating that aircraft on the water. july 2007 flight 3054 crashed in sao paulo, brazil. the plane shot past the runway and crashed into a concrete building and caught on fire. an image here of the aftermath of that crash. to june of 1988, a crash during an air show. air france flight 296 failed to gain flight and crashed into trees. three people were killed. 133 passengers survived that crash. initially pilot error was blamed b...

Individual on the plane that would cause not an emergency descent but a rapid descent, no radio call and a flight that continues onto the mountains. none of that ends up in the realm of a typical emergency scenario. pilot error will be on the list and some sort of deliberate act here. >> on that point, tom fuentes, terrorism, they really dont have a clue right? >> no they dont know if its that or not until they get the recorders and they know what the discussions were going on in the cockpit wit...