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Descent. >> they were faster than they should have been a little higher than they should have been. air traffic control turned the airplane in pretty close to the runway. so they were descending quickly. they descended the landing gear and configured it to land knowing they needed to slow down. >> reporter: but an indicator used to measure the plane's height above the ground has malfunctioned. it is showing the plane is on the ground when it is actually 2,000 feet in the air. the crew recognizes the problem but what they don't recognize is the faulty with reading will have a dangerous effect o...

Control of the airplane because i've got so much more experience. neither the training first officer nor the first captain disengaged the auto throttle system. the result of not following that disengagement is the auto throttle system drove back to idle. >> with no thrust to the engine, the airplane is losing too much air speed and takes nine seconds from a stick shaker warning for the captain to realize that the throttles are in idle. when he does, he pushes them to full trust but it's too late. >> by the time they realized what was occurring, the airplane went into an aerodynamic stalled con...

Idle but only for the descent. this is a situation the pilots don't know is unfolding. the airplane starts to slow down. the power does not come up as the auto throttle system thinks its on the ground. the airplane continues to slow. >> another problem, the plane is nearing the runway but the crew isn't finished prepping for landing. >> they didn't have the final flap selections made and still running the before landing checklist. consequently, the go around was required by their operations manuel yet they didn't do that. >> so all those things that they were doing at that time was taking them...

Of descent. >> they were faster than they should have been. they were a little higher than they should have been. air traffic control turned the airplane in close to the runway so they were descending quickly and extended the landing gear and configured the airplane to land knowing they needed to slow down. >> but an indicator called the radio measurement to measure above the ground malfunctioned. it is showing that the plane is on the ground when it's actually still 2,000 feet in the air. the crew recognizes the problem but what they don't realize is that the faulty reading will have a danger...

What is going on here, i want control of the airplane because i've got so much more experience. neither the training first officer nor the first captain disengaged. the result of not following that disengagement is the auto throttle system drove back to idle. >> with no thrust to the engine, the airplane is losing too much air speed and takes nine seconds from a stick shaker warning for the captain to realize that the throttles are in idle. when he does, he pushes them to full trust but it's too late. >> by the time they realized what was occurring, the airplane went into an aerodynamic stalle...