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Black boxes of mh-370 are found and downloaded for analysis. >> well pull the data up on the screen and well see the data ins tabular format and graphical format. >> we connected the record tore a power supply. >> reporter: they contain parameters about the flight movement, pilot maneuvers, speed and altitude all displayed with a series of graphs. >> every flight data recorder records the data in binary values. its a series of ones and zeros. in order for humans to understand that we need to con...

The crash. not only excessively intrusive, when you figure 13,000 hours of 777 flight time with few accidents, ntsb is leaning towards pilot error in san francisco and now the malaysian flight. it doesnt make any sense. >> mitchell, do you agree? >> i do agree. a camera is not going to add that much. i cant see that it would hurt, but i dont see -- its a waste of money if theyre just looking -- like he was saying cost benefit is not there. >> so david what if -- >> mitchell has been under scruti...

You start to wonder, can you build the system to exclude human element. >> you heard his comments yesterday. i know you spend a lot of time in the green room with our jeff. where do you stand on the idea of taking out the human factor? >> i think its predictable where im going to stand on that. the airline pilots association reacted appropriately to jeffs statements. the machines that we build are designed by humans and its designed with flaws. we have to operate them as humans. its sexy to be p...

Airlines crash in san francisco. the airline blaming software and the jet as well as pilot error in new documents filed with the national transportation safety board. according to the airline, the navigation equipment failed because of poorly designed software. apparently caused the pilots to fly too low when they believed they were flying at the proper speed. a system warning did not sound in time. boeing said all the equipment was working properly. the plane crash left three people dead. for...

The investigation says it was a deliberate act to turn the plane on the radar. could a software problem be to blame in a different boeing 777 crash landed in san francisco. pilot error came into play in this case but so did inconsistencies in the aircrafts automatic logic. according to the time, the carrier said monday in the filing with the transportation safety board that bad software design led to unexpected air speed protection without warning to the flight crew. the system to warn the crew ...

Through, especially through the day on wednesday and then some improvement towards latter part of the week. but a rough part of the world here when we get to these storms that move in with some strong winds and heavy rain and it looks this week will not be an exception. >> time is fast running out and, of course, too many challenges on the weather front. >> thanks, ivan. another story were watching, another airline story, south koreas asiana airlines now admits that pilot error was the likely ...

>> thanks very much. i appreciate it. >> read the list you wrote up. the eight lessons you heard from the case and number one, you said focusing primarily on terrorism can ob cure other threats. it is actually pilot error half of the time. thats the cause of airline accidents. >> yes, it is. the biggest concern is pilot error. the piece that i wrote for yahoo news outlined eight operate lessons that we continued to learn. unfortunately in some cases over and over again. the next of kin, the fami...

>> when congress created us, one of the things that they asked us to do was to determine the probable cause. thats been a part of our statute for over 40 years. >> when you look at a complex accident like this, you cant look at one individual thing, you have to look at the interactions. once we can put that term pilot error, it makes us feel better that we found what went wrong. we dont need to look any further. we have our scapegoat, and we can all take comfort in the system and move forward fr...

Airplane is. >> after the air france crash technic technical changes by the faa some going into effect next year and some in 2018. after this mystery, what should be the investigative, just give me a list of two or three investigative changes that should happen as it relates to several governments working together on an international investigation? >> so, victor, the number one thing that needs to happen is that we need to have real-time black boxes. now, a couple canadian companies that already...

Congress has to act and say, we will change our ntsb charter and we will say now you need to find the contributors rather than going after a single cause. >> i do not think this accident was due to pilot error. this was a complex warning, and there were numerous little things that went wrong. and the margin of safety was eroded by all of them to the point where the system became brittle and broke. >> and im sorry for everyone who has that empty space at the table and that empty spot at a christm...