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Automatic functions of the auto throttle. >> wouldn't you notice it in the copilot seat? the copilot was the one bringing this in. if you were the pilot in the other seat, wouldn't you think this is a little slow? >> well, yes. my understanding, the pilot, cap tape in the left seat was the up with in training. the pilot in the right seat is a check airman. what i have read and heard throughout the past couple of days. don't know this as a fact. but the talk about the pilot only have 43 -- the captain only having 43 hours on an airplane, when you start out in this training, have you no time in ...

And now what happened just moments before the crash? new details tonight from the ntsb. federal investigators interviewed the asiana flight crew today and those interviews included the pilot who was actually physically it at the controls when flight 214 hit the sea wall at san francisco's airport. according to national transportation safety board's chairwoman deborah hersman, the flying pilot was a veteran. he it did have about 10,000 hours of flight time but he was still in their initial operating experience when it came to the 777 on which they're now saying he had flown about 35 hours. that...

Automatic functions of the auto throttle. >> wouldn't you notice it in the copilot seat? the copilot was the one bringing this in. if you were the pilot in the other seat, wouldn't you think this is a little slow? >> well, yes. my understanding, the pilot, cap tape in the left seat was the up with in training. the pilot in the right seat is a check airman. what i have read and heard throughout the past couple of days. don't know this as a fact. but the talk about the pilot only have 43 -- the captain only having 43 hours on an airplane, when you start out in this training, have you no time in ...

The airplane was configured and see if the automation was being used by the crew. typically the pilots will set the airplane up with an auto throttle and in anticipation of the speed the automated system tries to maintain it. the crew didn't monitor and notice it until the last minute. that puts them behind the power curve. by the time they try to take the corrective action and push the power to full power for the go around by the time the engines started to spool up the airplane was settling to the ground. >> another question here that i think was raised. we learned today or at the end of the...

Terms of this report. >> yes, we now know, drew, what actually happened and the sequence of events and how it played out. i'm going to show you exactly. flight 447 was in the air and moving across. well, it's some particularly coal weather. the tubes at the front of the plane suddenly started to give incorrect readings, they iced up. that led to the disengagement of the auto pilot and auto throttle, and various other systems in the cockpit. what happened then is that the nose started to rise, and the plane's speed pled away. in fact, it went down, according to some, well under 100 knots. the s...