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What we call outflow valves and things that will hold the pressurization in the aircraft. if there's a leak and you have a seal that's leaking, it can be very slow and insidious to the pilot because as the cabin starts to rise the pilot will become a little tired and feel a little nausiated and fingers start to turn blue because of that lack of oxygen. or if you have a rapid decompression, it's a startling event, it catches you by surprise and lose your breath because literally the pressurization is trying to equalize with the outside atmosphere and pulls breath out of it. this sounds a little...

Then you need to let somebody know. you know, i would just ask the passenger next to you, hey, do you feel like this? if they say they feel odd too, then you need to let somebody know because that may be the only way that your life will be saved. >> doctor, we've heard from the fighter pilots who actually got a visual of this plane, that they could see the pilot. he looked like he was breathing but he might have already been passed out. once you get to the point where you have lost consciousness, is it too late to try to bring hypoxia back or is it still recoverable when you get down to a lowe...

Looked like kg, it's interesting to note that when this thing went on auto pilot, you can see the ups and downs on auto pilot, like when you have cruise control. the car slows down, other cars in front of it. as you hit different wind drifts and stuff the plane will go up and slow down, and at the very end, we got a report the plane actually dropped a couple of thousand feet and then tried to climb back up, the natural want of this plane, and as the plane startsá/ów5 sputter they go in. but almost six hours of flying time before this thing actually crashed. we first heard it crashed on the ...

One is the descent to an altitude at which the air is breathable and other is what you just mentioned, the oxygen mask, which gives you a substantial amount of time to be able to adjust. is that sort of two things that went wrong, a failure to descend and also the failure to use the oxygen on the plane? >> well, this particular aircraft has a visual system. i'm not quite certain if it has an oral system with regard to pressurization problems. it is a new aircraft. it has a fully automated pressurization system. in other words, the pilot does not have to adjust a dial for the particular altitud...

School. this is the same school that many air force pilots go to on contract. it's a civilian school with motion sim larulators, very sophisticated, very rigorous training. part of the training is recognition of hypoxia and what to do when you recognize the symptoms. what to do, i'm starting to get giddy, feel a little happy, light-headed, i'm still capable of making some decisions. check my nail beds, check the pressurization system. my nail beds are blue, the pressurization system is not functioning, get down to a breathable altitude, 10,000 to 15,000 feet. >> but you have seconds to make th...