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Engine it is. as i always tell people, theres no rear-view mirrors in the cockpit so that comes through training and very careful response. the second tragedy was that even after he realized hed shut down the wrong engine, he delayed trying to do something about it and that was also part of the criticism in the report. >> you bring up the fact this has happened before. you bring up the fact this is something you train for and you brought up the point the other key piece of information he essenti...

Low speed stall. when loss of control occurs it occurs because the wings lose their grip on the airspace. now the simulator training for all airline pilots does not at the moment is not universal, and doesnt include a program for this particular circumstance. when the orientation of the pilot is a critical point in the dark at great height and if the plane starts losing its air speed and manual flying has to happen very quickly, they were slow at implementing the training program. after air fran...

Overdependent on the flight systems? >> thats a really good question. we know from the french jet that crashed off the coast of brazil there was certainly very good indications in the analysis post that crash that there is this interdependency on the technology that these airbuses and new aircraft are developing and what happened there was that the aircraft got some icing on the tubes that feed the dynamic skprsh the air speed indicator gave erroneous readings in the cockpit who kept on followin...

Responsibility. >> its his responsibility. >> hes the captain. >> he shoulders all the responsibility because hes the master. >> its really -- i mean its kind of harkens back to another time but i mean how much training does a captain of a ship have? is there a universal course of training? >> that depends. it took me about 12 to 13 years before i was sailing captain so i had quite a bit of training and the training was reinforced through the maritime institute where we go, every time were off s...

Simulator training, very similar to what airline pilot dose. they are regulated to be in flight simulators every nine months that they have to go in and go through training on flight simulators. theres no regulation right now in the maritime, so theres a good possibility that nobody sailing the ship has ever been in a simulator, depending on what nationality or what flag you fly under. something was not seen. its a great thing to do. >> i appreciate you being here. thank you very much. honor a...

Experience on this plane. and as you said yesterday, you didnt think that should play a role in what happened. you said, well, if hed flown a lot of other planes, he should be able to 0 by seniority switch to 777. he was sitting next to an instructor pilot. it was a third pilot also in the jump seat, in the cockpit. did all three of them miss the signs then? >> well, you know, being a longtime pilot, youre going to typically transfer from airplane to airplane over time. and the route that he too...

Before it crashed into a river killing 43 in eastboundfebruary. the captain accidentally switched off the only working engine seconds before the crash. the captain previously failed simulator training in may 2014. so we are two days away from one of the biggest beach days of the year. this morning in north carolina major fears of what lurks below the waves. >> its happened again. beach goers in north carolina stunned after the third shark attack in a week this time ocracoke island. >> the coas...