CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin June 24, 2014 18:35:00
Expectation that the autopilot and autothrottle system would do something for them that the airplane was not designed to do and also a lack of monitoring. >> so what happened? well, one of the pilots unintentionally deactivated the automatic -- automatic air speed control. similar to cruise control in the car. the flight crew failed to closely monitor the plane's air speed and then they reacted too late when they attempted to abort landing. now the board said that fat weei -- fatigue likely contributed to do their poor performance. their mistakes with boeing's throttle system which were unadeq...