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>> the noise of the disintegration of the airplane was so huge, i didn't hear anything else. >> january 20th, 1992, 6:20 p.m. airinter flight 5148 runs down and takes off from lyon, france, on a short commuter flight to strasbourg. 90 passengers are on board, most of them business travelers and 6 crew members. graduate student nicolas is in the last row of seats. >> i was visiting my girlfriend who was living in strasbourg. >> captain christian hekay and joel sherabin are in the cockpit of the revolutionary airbus

Which is plane struggled to make. >> the ergonomic design was poor. >> it should have either been a button that identified what mode you were in, or it should have been two separate panels. >> other causes cited in the investigation -- below average crew interaction and poor communication and the absence of a ground proximity warning system which deprived the crew of one final warning opportunity. >> given that this was a short haul fast operation, they were going to get a lot of nuisance warnings, and they didn't want that presented to the flight crews all the time. >> airinter defended its l...

Airbus modified the a-320's flight control unit so that a vertical speed setting would be displayed as a four-digit number, preventing confusion with the flight path angle mode. airinter increased pilot training. >> after this, you can't compose a crew with two persons with less than 300 hours of flight on airbus a-320. >> translator: i am heartbroken. >> the sadness endures for this man who lost his son, a flight attendant, in the crash. he still can't accept the moment that took down flight 5148, the turn of a knob that began their lethal loss of altitude. >> translator: they had 17 seconds ...

Vertical speed setting would be displayed as a four-digit number, preventing confusion with the unit's flight path angle mode. airinter also increased pilot training for the a320. >> after this, you can't compose a crew with two persons with less than 300 hours of flight on airbus a-320. >> translator: i am heartbroken. >> the sadness endures for hubert who lost his son hue, a flight attendant in the crash. he still can't accept the moment that took down flight 5148, the turn of a knob that began their lethal loss of altitude. >> translator: they had 17 seconds to realize that they were in a b...

A320, the world's first commercial airliner to have completely computerized controls. its bold advertisements declare a superior intelligence has arrived. >> similar to what you have on your home computer when you're trying to fly a flight simulator with the joystick. it's all computer controlled. you're never physically moving the flight controller. >> airinter was a regional sort of airline. so this was a bit of an upstart carrier. but they were a highly motivated group that wanted the airline to succeed. >> part of that success depends on competing with france's high-speed train system. put...