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When you find the answer it all seems to fall in place like its supposed to. in this case it does in my mind. with one exception. and richard may have answers for this because we had discussed it earlier, but if he did select the descent and this is something we need to ask ron, wouldnt that descent be smooth and straight? i would think it would be. but this has some anomalies in it. it has changes in it. that could be because he inputted some control and tried to move it. >> ron, what do you ma...

But i think that everybody has a part to do in here, and i think that we are all doing it and i respect everybody on the panel for their opinion and what they are doing it. >> carlene pettit. >> well thank you don. i know we want to prevent a reoccurrence and everybody is concerned with the speculation, but we need to shift it to the brainstorming, and try to figure out what happened, and fit takes a year we cant prevent the reoccurrence and to try to deduce what happened with what we do know is...

Intent and also shows, we are looking at the pilot or somebody on board that was trying to do this purposefully. >> i believe the investigation has to look at everything, right down to the guy that fueled the aircraft. i dont believe there is anything that said these pilots did anything wrong. as a former corporate pilot myself, i can tell you that having a simulator in your house, there is nothing wrong with that. >> there is no proof that the pilots did something wrong but there were these sat...

Communicate. the fact that there are no distress calls tells me something happened a thousand feet below the aprove. >> when you say a thousand feet on approach, how long are we talking from 1,000 feet and putting wheels on the ground? >> oh, 35, 40 seconds. >> when youre coming in fast like that, its a heavy plane certainly, the fact that thats on an auto pilot or auto landing or the pilot is doing it themselves, can the plane be automatically landed without pilot intervention? >> it can but in...