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In a fully computerized setup like what you see in the airbus and also the boeing 787, these are are aircraft that are controlled by computers. so when the pilot puts in any sort of change for the aircraft flight controls, it first goes through the computer that mediates it and then tells the controls what to do. i find it problematic, actually. >> to distill this there's no real manual override on the a320? >> i cannot absolutely confirm that at this point, but i know that it is an electrically driven aircraft and you would not have a hydraulic override. >> thank you for your perspective pers...

Where the crash site is. we're talking about marseille, nice, those are airports that handle a320s very frequently. they are all very close to where this incident occurred. >> earlier during "morning joe," they had some of the aviation experts on and said if at 38,000 feet, which it was somewhere in this vicinity if they had two engines go out at that point, in theory experts say they should have been able to make it to one of these airports. obviously, they didn't for some reason reason. add that to the list of your mysteries. >> look at that map. there's marseille almost directly on the flig...

That was at 10,000 feet so pretty well up there when the center fuel tank exploded. there was a decompression of the private jet carrying the golfer payne stewart a number ofiers where everybody passed out and the plane flew over hat of the understand before it but in this case there's no evidence of anything like that but we're pretty early into it. i think what is important here is getting the recorders. they've got one and probably will find the other one, and then we should have some answers pretty quickly, is my guess. >> bob, the plane was almost 25 years old. is that normal? >> yeah tha...

Worried there are many germans onboard that plane. they're trying to figure out the nationalities of those onboard. we're still trying to figure out the numbers of those onboard. we've heard 142, 148, 150, 154. and of course they're trying to get to the families. so somuch is happening at once here pertaining to this crash which is still a mystery as to how in the world it went down so quickly. >> yes, a mystery. and the latest news is that at least one, possibly two, police helicopters have now located that wreckage. as to the numbers, yes, we're not absolutely sure but we believe it's 148. t...

Previous conversation with bill in terms of the mantra the pilots have. it's about navigate and communicate. when the pilots sense there would be an emergency, what they have to do is get the aircraft under a condition where they can then start looking at a navigational airfield. if they are traveling at 400 knots and have an emergency, the pilot wants to convert speed to height. they will get it into a glide profile. i'm not sure of the speed for the glide on the a320. >> they are at cruising height cruising speed, so they should be in good shape at the time it happens. >> they will be lookin...