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Found and recovered, they will be taken to a lab like this facility cnn visited earlier this year where it will be disassemble asked analyzed for clues. but answers wont come quickly, often it takes a year to arrive at a final conclusion as to what caused the fatal crash. >> the black boxes, they are housed in the tail of the a-320. so investigators will be searching for this portion of the plane. it is strategically placed back here. theres less of a chance that it is damaged. this is why it is...

And multiple it times the size of the ceiling -- >> youre literally stuck. >> yes. right. it just releases that lift and then at that point the aircraft goes down. the objective then is to get enough air speed over the wing by putting the nose down getting the aircraft down. its counter intuitive to do that. last thing you think you should do is push down but you have to do that to get the air over the top of the wing again and re-establish the lighter weight on top. >> to get up to speed a litt...

Crashed, killing all on board. air france flight -- the planes speed sensors were clogged with ice at high altitude during thunderstorms. those are just two of six major crashes over the past decade, due to weather. in july of this year a trans asia airline flight crash in 2002. >> what role does pilot error have or has it played in these accidents. >> investigators found that the pilots werent trained a cattily enough to maneuver the plane manually at high altitudes in those storm conditions a ...

Pilot talking to the passengers or taking a rest period. they werent looking at instrumentation. there were a lot of procedures they didnt follow. is this a case where it seems as though you have a situation of weather alone or is this some case where you have weather combined with either pilot error, or some kind of problem with the aircraft? >> well any time youre looking at an aircraft accident, you always hear about the chain. it could be just the weather, it could be just pilot error it cou...

Through the engines which of course are viet toll get that air flow over the wings. and in a couple of priors, both air france 447 and an accident down in venezuela, west caribbean airlines, the pilots faced this icing and these terrible shifts in the winds and didnt realize soon enough to take corrective action. theres a combination of factors, not just weather but at this altitude the weather certainly was a huge component, and in accidents we often see a combination of weather and pilot error...

Air speed was deteriorating and they didnt respond properly to save that air speed. you know, they got to keep that air flowing over the wings including if they have to dive to keep the air speed going, same thing on west caribbean 708. there they encountered thunderstorms at cruising altitude as this one was and at very high altitude, they cant climb out of it. theyre already at operational ceiling in some cases on the plane. the planes dont go much over 40,000 feet unless you have a special pe...

Seemed to be a little low compared to others in the area. on air france case 447 they didnt realize that their air speepd was deteriorating and literally spiraling or diving down and they lost that plane and then west caribbean 708 that was about eight years ago they were in icing conditions at cruise altitude and didnt deploy all the icing equipment. >> i want to bring back in alastair who is a pilot and has flown this route in indonesia. lets pick up on what mary was talking about most of the ...

162 people including 17 children. due to bad weather, air searches will resume in the morning. an aviation attorney joins me now. mark i guess most of the speck lapgs speculation centers on the weather. any doubt in your mind? >> not really. we have to try to avoid the media melee that followed malaysia flight 370 speculation. certainly we know the weather is out there. to an extent it had an impact hopefully well know soon. >> there are other possibilities as well as the weather. >> thats alw...

To the airport of fly inging. >> do we see more of these accidents? >> a lot of it has to do with training and the oversight of the faa that watches over pilots and flight departments. >> we talked about weather being a factor what about pilot error being a factor? >> well training is always an issue with flying. most parents or pilots tend to be a pilot-controlled airplane where the airbuss are fly by wire, done by computers. and a lot of the pilots are going into the simulators to learn if the...

Attention and immediate clearance, whatever i want needs to get out of danger. >> and, unfortunately, you have been dealing with, obviously, not just malaysia 370 but youve been doing this for your professional life. traditionally is weather the biggest factor in planes that crash or go missing or situations like were in right now? >> no. no. unfortunately, you know when you look at that and i follow the ntsb most closely, of course but for them the causes of crashs is predominantly pilot error....