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If a plane does stall, how should a pilot react? tom said it would take a very calm crew or pilot to get a plane back on track, or to deal with that situation. >> well it depends on the nature of the stall. i mean youre trained to recover from the stalls in flight school. i mean literally the first week. but the problem is the nature of the stall and if its a stall in this kind of weather and youve lost the stall as one of the other guests mentioned and off the wings and the tail and you cant re...

Simulate lightning to make sure essentially that the aircraft is engineered to shed that electricity to not penetrate the skin of the plane to become a catastrophic situation, so it is engineered to deal with the weather conditions, but the weather becomes when a pilot is finding himself or herself in this situation, does this individual react properly. so it could be a combination of the weather pattern and how did this pilot react. >> i believe we will try one more time with alister on the pho...

Theyre built in this way. the critical part is when an aircraft is in these sort of weather conditions, does the pilot react? does the pilot react correct sfli thats critical as well. to your question, you know, does weather play a role? were still waiting to see. when you look at the satellite imagery at this point, there is no doubt that this aircraft did go through some very bad weather. >> renee marsh joining us by phone, aviation correspond in washington, renee, stay by the phone. well get ...

Sky? >> caller: yes, we were. we were in row 16. you could see blue sky, the wiring, cabling. everything, it was terrifying. >> maam, what do you do from that point on? im sure things go through your mind. the possible, god for bid, a crash of the plane. how did the flight attendants and pilot react. >> my husband was like oh, my gosh, its blue sky. we looked up at each other and thought this is not a good sign. we looked up. the air masks fell down within seconds. we grabbed the masks and looke...