Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150324:17:02:00
A.m. and all the way to 6800 feet by 10:40.37. that means that this plane went down or descended 32,000 feet over the course of about eight minutes. that's 4,000 feet per minute. that's on the fast side of a descent. not out of the normal range but it certainly is a rather rapid descent. but here's the issue. if this was designed -- in other words if the pilots did that manually why did the plane then apparently crash into a mountain? if the plane was going down on autopilot and pilots were able to set it for descent, a rapid descent rkts why did they not try to level out at 10,000 feet which ...