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Crew, and the plane. thats what i do as a pilot. >> reporter: is that why this incident has so disturbed the people in your profession? >> its unthinkable that a pilot would take an airplane and drive it into the ground. its not something we would ever think about. >> reporter: kyung lah, cnn, las vegas. >> joining me again, cnn aviation correspondent richard quest and with us, ron stock and airbus a320 captain. ron, its interesting to see that pilot in the simulator couldnt even bring himself t...

Simulator in a scenario weve asked him to do for the purposes of this story, this pilot cannot stand it. does it exceed pilot instinct? is it human instinct to pull up the stick at that point? >> yes, im thinking about the safety of my passengers my crew and the plane. thats what i do as a pilot. >> reporter: is that why this incident has so disturbed the people in your profession? >> its unthinkable that a pilot would take an airplane and drive it into the ground. its not something we would eve...

>> absolutely. that should record control surface, control input. control surface movement. numerous parameters. yes, i would say that that would be, that data would be there. >> and, you know, again, theres a lot we dont know about this co-pilot, exactly what the illness he was facing is, that he was trying to hide. if a pilot is intent on hiding something, on hiding thoughts theyre having or hiding an illness, if they dont self-disclose, if theyre not getting treatment, if they dont want their...

Want their employer the know theres no guarantee that i suppose something like this couldnt happen again. theres no structure in place, at least in lufthansa that unless they self-report, that its going to be discovered. >> i think this situation is so remote. i have known numerous pilots over 30 plus years that have relinquished their medical certificate for medical reasons. we take our medical certificate or medical license very very seriously. every time we fill out the form 8500 the faa form...

Things will be possible. what we want to do -- last time we showed you a demonstration of what it would be like to land on water without power. in other words the engines quit because they ran out of future. but mitchell casado brought up a good point that you were the pilot you wouldnt wait until you were out of fuel. >> no way. >> that way you have a second chance. take us down and get us really close. we will make this approach and show you what a water landing can look like. we will warn you...

>> take us down, get under the circumstances re-- us really close. were not going to go into the water. simulator couldnt possibly take that. well bring you in and tell you what the approach would be like. >> martin, full water landing, you want to keep the airplane in a similar attitude as you would for a regular landing. so level wings. nose up. you want to touch down tail low. youre going to bounce. thats pretty much a certainty. of course, you want to have a the hatch open to escape. the cre...