CNN New Day March 26, 2015 10:10:00
Input. then you let go of it. it would take that controlled input, knowing you intended to start your descent, so it will start the descent, wherever you let go of it. it will maintain that exact flight path. if you let go of it. it's not going to many could up like this. it's going to continue in whatever you did. this would have had to be a bump and it would have had to be directly forward. because remember there was a bigno change in the flight path. it's hard for me to believe that a bump in the cockpit would have caused it to descend. the auto pilot would take over at that point. maintain...
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