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>> the first officer goes to full power and tilts the nose up so much a stall warning erupts in the cockpit. theres mayhem in the cabin. >> i just remember hearing people crying and screaming and i was terrified. >> mercedes mother and father help prepare her for the worst. >> through all of that chaos i remember hearing my moms voice, her voice calmed me down because she was actually praying. i was holding on to my dads hand at the same time [siren sound] >> 12 seconds after the warning alarm g...

Full power and tilts the nose up so much a stall warning erupts in the cockpit. theres mayhem in the cabin. >> i just remember hearing people crying and screaming and i was terrified. >> mercedes mother and father help prepare her for the worst. >> through all of that chaos i remember hearing my moms voice, her voice calmed me down because she was actually praying. i was holding on to my dads hand at the same time. [ siren sound ]. >> pull up. >> 12 seconds after the warning alarm goes off, the ...

Radar. >> delta 1998 look to your right side about five miles for dash eight. should be 4300. do you see anything there? >> the planes speed drops dangerously low and begins to dive in heavy snow. the pilot overcorrects. a fatal mistake. >> the initial reaction to the stall warning was incorrect. >> reporter: the jet crashes into a home in buffalo, new york killing all 49 people onboard. >> we put our lives in the hands of people that we assume that the faa and airlines are properly training. >>...

Before the recovery it was thought the plane speed sensor were to blame. but the black boxes reveal the pilots were at fault. a transcript from the cockpit voice recorders shows confusion in the cockpit. >> we still have engines. what the hell is happening, one asks. another copilot said climb climb climb and the captain said no dont climb. air flight 3407 also stalls and disappears off radar. >> colgan 3407 buffalo. >> colgan 3407 approach. >> delta 1998 look off your right side about five mile...

Fly around it or get under it, but that area is notorious for thunderstorms. might be better to turn around and go back. >> also a lot of talk about the pit tubes in which those pit tubes froze up and caused the computer systems to go out of whack. this happened several times with airbus planes. let me read something from flight safety which indicates there were several incidents. the crew of u.s. airplane was using the on board weather radar system to avoid thunderstorms. flying over japan at f...

Were at fault. a transcript from the cockpit voice recorder shows confusion in the cockpit. we still have engines. what the hell is happening one copilot asks? another copilot says climb, climb, climb. then the captain, no, no, no, dont climb. in february 2009, colgan air flight 347 3407 also stalls an disappears off radar. >> look out your right side about five miles for a dash eight, should be 430. do you see anything there? >> reporter: the planes speed drops dangerously low. it begins to div...

Just over a minute before the crash, control of the plane was switched from auto pilot to manual. thats fairly normal. but unclear if the computers that controlled the engines were left on automatic. >> we noticed it seemed low. the engine kicked into high gear. were like, that sounds like a panic response there. within two seconds it hit. >> reporter: could the lack of throttle be what caused the jet to slow and trigger the stall warning? did the cockpit crew act properly in the final minutes b...

The cockpit. dan sims liv with the latest. >> reporter: the focus of the investigation seems to be on the actions that the flight crew took as well as the experience level of the pilot. this pilot had only limited experience in a boeing 777. he only had 23 hours flying this type of aircraft and never landed this type of aircraft at the san francisco international airport. we know he had experience in other kinds of planes but not in a triple 7. we know the information coming out of the cockpit s...

This thing goes into very great detail. remember, it was flying from rio to paris. it hit a very bad thunderstorm. when the tubes which are the speed sensors failed, and when they failed, the plane -- that thing right there -- the plane went into a stall. the first thing pilots are taught is you push the nose down to increase the speed and regain control. but despite the stall warning going off, some 54 seconds continuously the pilot in control continued to push up on the nose, not down, and the...

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