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The cockpit, explain this to me, you were talking about order in the cockpit, you know, you also, of course -- you always hear on a commercial flight, you hear the stall warnings, all the other warnings that go off. im sure warnings were going off inside the cockpit. its not like they both cant look at how many knots theyre doing. it seems unbelievable to me they didnt keep it to the proper speed during their approach. >> it is almost unbelievable. the only other thing id say, i would say two ot...

All of them died. trace gallagher is live with the the news tonight. trace, usually in this type of thing they say that a series of events lead up to a crash. >> and this was no different, harris. it began with the airspeed sensors getting clogged with ice. the plane lost speed and went into a stall and stopped flying. every pilot is taught when you go into a stall put the nose down and regain. this pilot ignored the stall warnings and kept pulling the nose up and the plane kept falling and fall...

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Arrangements. martha: that would have been helpful, right? molly henneberg joins us live from washington with more. so what is united doing to these, what do they think is wrong with them? >> reporter: hi martha. theyre doing a certain type of maintenance check that takes 60-90 minute phos each plane and this is the second of two days of the check, only on united fleets of boeing 757s and the airline says all this may cause delays or some flights to be canceled. its part of a federal air worthin...