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January 1, 2015
Terrorism, loss, pilot error. the plane is still somewhere. its going to come back. >> putin. >> evaporated. vaporized. >> to this day i cannot believe they cant find one single molecule of that airplane somewhere. >> thats very disturbing. >> what is your conspiracy theory? >> i dont know. listen can i put it this way? i lost an uncle. my uncle was shot down in world war ii in the south pacific. they never found a piece of that airplane, either. and after like 20 years someone came forth and sa...
December 31, 2014
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...
December 31, 2014
Soccer. im excited about soccer in the united states. >> do you know that in french soccer means zero zero? >> that was an interesting factoid. are you warming up to soccer too? >> its really interesting to watch. its fun to watch when its at that level, competitive level, world cup level. but anything below world cup? i cant even watch major indoor -- do they still have major indoor soccer in america? i dont even know. i couldnt sit through a game. >> bob is our roving soccer correspondent. >> ...
December 30, 2014
Mike and i discuss the possible scenarios of what could have unfolded here. there are so many factors but the main speculation is centered on weather. weather alone, could it have done all of this or would there have been pilot error? >> it could have been weather. we couldnt have underestimated the monster thunderstorms. but what we dont know for sure until we get the radar -- sorry the air traffic control transcript theres is a lot of discussion about the last words from the pilot where there ...
December 30, 2014
Find the black boxes bring them bag so they can figure out exactly what went wrong, whether are or not the bad weather was actually to blame. >> well dig more into the investigation now with tom costello. what do we know at this point? >> i think what we know is that this plane was for whatever reason at 36,300 feet and at a relatively slow speed. in fact near stall speed when it ran into trouble. the question is why. because was it because it was suddenly facing unbelievable headwinds or did so...
December 30, 2014
Nine of those crashes were deadly resulting in 656 deaths on the planes or on the 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 fly by wire sxichl pilotystem and pilot error. in 2007 ten crashed on landing in sao paolo brazil. a reverse thruster had been deactivated. the plane unable to stop crashed into a cargo terminal. 187 passengers and crew died plus 12 on the g...
December 30, 2014
You are balancing what you are going to do if you recognize a turbulent situation and lost control of the aircraft. what do you do about it? we call those the approximate it cause. the last thing that happened. the pilot is often blamed. it is often pilot error. we dont talk about that part before which is why did the aircraft do what it did so the pilot had to take that evasive action. >> when they put the pieces together and figure out what happened here do you think this crash is something pi...
December 30, 2014
The ground. the first crash, shortly after the plane started service in 1988. air france flight skimmed the top of trees during an air show demonstration flight. the cause, pilot error. in 2007, tam airlines crashed in sao paulo. a reverse thruster had been deactivated. the plane crashed into a cargo terminal. 187 passengers and crew died, plus 12 on the ground. the deadliest crash for an a320, cause, likely mechanical failure or pilot error. and who could forget 1549s ditching. on takeoff, the ...
December 30, 2014
In its history, 16 a-320 plaens have crashed. nine of those crashes were deadly resulting in 656 deaths on the plane or on the ground. the first crash, shortly after the plane started service in 1988. air franls flight 296 skimmed the top of trees during an air show demonstration flight. the cause, the fly-by wire system and pilot error. in 2007 tam airlines flight 3054 krashld on handing in sao paulo, brazil. the plane unable to stop crashed into a cargo terminal. 187 passengers and crew died p...
December 30, 2014
When the pilot asked for higher weather? the reason i am getting at this is we dont know if this wasnt a mechanical issue. there is the smoking gun, of course that they were in bad weather. we have seen the pictures. there was also six other airliners very close to this one who had no problem. so what that leads me to believe and we have seen this in other incidents or accidents such as air france in 2009 is that possibly they encountered super cool droplets and perhaps their sensors were overwh...