CNN New Day Sunday July 7, 2013 11:18:00
Pet peter goles is a former managing director with the ntsb, joining us on the telephone. tell us more about the configuration of this aircraft and how it could actually have prevented a worse situation from happening. >> well, the 777, which was, you know, first put in the air in 1994, is required to have a new generation of 16seats, called 1 gcs, which means that every seat in the aircraft is attached to the frame so it does not come loose in a violent crash. and prior to these seats, investigators found that passengers would be badly injured and killed because the seats were coming loose. s...