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Air traffic control tried to reach the cockpit 11 times. we know that military got involved tried to contact them three times. why would that will have happened? what role would these agencies have played there? >> well theyre responsible for separating traffic. they need to know where it is. of course on their radar screens, they see the pilot and the plane are not responding. they would have seen on the radar tracings that its altitude its flight level was decreasing. they have a job to do too...

But that pilot could not get back in. the official says the cockpit voice recorder indicates quoting, "the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and then he hits the door stronger and no answer. there is never an answer." he goes onto say, quoting "you can hear hes trying to smash the door down." so at this point there are two possibilities. the pilot inside the cockpit was either incapacitated though theres no sound of distress, or he deliberately kept the other pilot out. the cockpit doo...

But that pilot could not get back in. the official says the cockpit voice recorder indicates quoting, "the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and then he hits the door stronger and no answer. there is never an answer." he goes onto say, quoting "you can hear hes trying to smash the door down." so at this point there are two possibilities. the pilot inside the cockpit was either incapacitated though theres no sound of distress, or he deliberately kept the other pilot out. the cockpit doo...

Pilot out. the cockpit door automatically locks. in the united states you must have two people in the cockpit. so if a pilot leaves, a flight attendant is require today go in. its unclear what the rules are in germany, but this would explain why during the ten-minute descent there is no mayday or any conversation at the ground. take a look at the cockpit of the a320. theres no center yoke or control column. instead airbus uses a side stick controller. so it would be more difficult for a potentia...

Or up it tells back there, it has a sensor that tells you where your elevator went. it also confirm that the movements the pilot made were carried out by the aircraft. >> right. will it be able to tell us the crucial thing. say the pilot started the decan she not descent, it will say whether the pilot kept going. >> this is one of the things thats interesting. its a different philosophy. youre always on auto-pilot because youre flying a computer. when youre controlling the airplane and asking th...

>> but the impression that you have from what were hearing and learning from tom and other reports, that there is no reason for such a long descent. if they were able to know that something was malfunctioning. >> you know, working on the anniversary of the malaysia air disappearance, one of the things i went into a simulator. and one of the things we looked at, is it possible they were overcome and depressurization. we simulated going into a rather rapid descent, maybe around 4,000 feet per minu...

Have a potential nexus where you can cross over from a, a nonsecure system into a secure system. >> has this been evaluated by any of the governments involved, of whether or not even another passenger may have hacked in? because the problem is, that once we went digital, in cockpits, the only way to overcome by a pilot someone that takes over the controls remotely, is analog. is there anything analog in that cockpit any more? >> no. just about everything is digital flight controls and fly by wir...

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