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They held short directly underneath him for about 15 second, i think. he had his back turned so he never saw that they were headed out the wrong way and he cleared them without turning around and looking. >> the last thing i remember was when captain clay said, you have the controls? i said yes, i have the controls. i said set thrust. he set the thrust and away we went. >> cleared for takeoff on runway 22, the pilots take off from the much shorter runway 26. pilots struggle to pull the plane into the air, but simply run out of room. >> he wasn't scheduled to fly. he was supposed to be commutin...

This will never not be in our lives. it's such an emotional cross that he bears, that no one really sees but me. and he would have given anything to have gone with all of them rather than sitting here today and doing this. >> the faa has admitted it violated its own policy by having only one controller in that tower at bluegrass airport. a second controller should have been in the tower handling planes on radar while the other worked with planes on the runway. >> everybody was really very focused on the tower and the fact there was only one controller and he had his back turned and that kind o...

>> it wasn't like this happened you want somebody to blame because you're hurting. it helps to focus. and i totally, totally understand and don't -- i have no animosity towards any of them. it was heart-breaking. >> unfortunately, it's easier to blame the person who can take it than the person who's no longer there. had he been killed in this thing, too, i don't want to say that would cause a lot of of closure for anybody. i'm speaking of me. it would have stopped a lot of the anger because there's nobody to be angry to. >> my feeling has always been if jeff had lived we would have taken him i...

Inches. because if i didn't have the reach, i would be in big trouble. the memorial, five years where they have a statue of the 49 doves, which was very well done. it is 49 birds taking off, upward motion, and they spread out. i'll show you a video of it. jesus. it affected everything, because everything that i knew that was normal prior to august 27 was not normal anymore. just everything changed. and the first couple of years were probably not good years. >> he was just emotionally devastated. he still goes back. there's times he doesn't get out of bed for a week, even now. so it hits him li...

Sterile cockpit, then the whole thing shifted towards the pilots. >> when the public gets a hold of the cockpit voice recorder transcripts, and they see this 20 minutes of chatter, i think there is some confusion thinking they were chattering about everything that didn't make a -- no wonder they had a problem. that's not sterile cockpit. getting to know each other on a flight deck and this casual conversation that tends to precede each flight is actually extremely important. what that does is it breaks down barriers. >> as a humankind of figure out how you tick. you need to figure out how i ti...