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>> what are the opening that's the pilot had to work when when you talk about how he responded to the weather? >> well, you know, we're skating very quickly down the road of speculation. and, you know, you want to know what happened. that is natural. that's what comes to mind immediately. that was a weather situation. the weather created an incident with the aircraft with the troops and the speed machines that they navigate the aircraft. it's the way the pilot responded to the air speed indicator. you have a chain of events which actually lead to whatever happens. now that's a long way down th...

They got iced up. what happened, the air speed indicator acted like an altimeter. so when the aircraft climbed, showed it was increasing in speed. that obviously wasn't happening. the pilots reacted to pulling the power back. that's the way you control the speed. what happened is that they didn't realize they were climbing, pulling the power back, enter the catastrophic stall, huge loss of lift on the wing and descended from 35,000 feet into the ocean. the pilots had no idea that the flight envelope was exactly that. and so there was no distress call put out. there was no 7700 put out on the t...

Into the stall that they couldn't get out of is there anything that you would think this plane could promise it had, catastrophic at that altitude? >>, that's one of the worst things that could happy. pilots are just monitoring everything. the auto pilot, in their case, they had a static system failure, which then feeds erroneous data to the flight management computers. and the auto pilot uses that data, too. just like the pilots use it it and what would happen if your static system freezes up, or the feto spreezes up you can get al tenor that goes in the opposite direction. the airspeed indic...

Into the stall that they couldn't get out of is there anything that you would think this plane could promise it had, catastrophic at that altitude? >>, that's one of the worst things that could happy. pilots are just monitoring everything. the auto pilot, in their case, they had a static system failure, which then feeds erroneous data to the flight management computers. and the auto pilot uses that data, too. just like the pilots use it it and what would happen if your static system freezes up, or the feto spreezes up you can get al tenor that goes in the opposite direction. the airspeed indic...

Water. a 17 mile straight-in final is a long way, but they had to cross a body of water. you have a greater sink rate over a body of water. >> you go down faster. >> right. you go down faster. it's possible the flight got away. of course, it's still possible they had problems with the altimeter. and the airspeed indicator. >> it's possible there are mechanical problems here as well. mark, my question to you is how do we understand the safety revolution that has happened in commercial air? i mean, it just seems to me when you're thinking about this as a problem to solve, you have so many moving...