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Questions about who exactly is to blame for flight 901. >> everybody has got opinions, but a lot of the evidence just has never been considered. >> but one thing both reports agree on, weather was a key factor. >> the record shows that they had thought they could get into clear air below the cloud at about 2,000 feet. >> a weather condition called sector whiteout made the flanks of mount erebus seem to disappear. the optical illusion caused the approach to lewis sound to look identical to the approach they believed they were flying over mcmurdo sound. >> they were seeing what they expected to ...

Questions about who exactly is to blame for flight 901. >> everybody has got opinions, but a lot of the evidence just has never been considered. >> but one thing both reports agree, on weather was a key factor. >> the record shows that they had thought they could get into clear air below the cloud at about 2,000 feet. >> a weather condition called sector whiteout made the flanks of mount erebus seem to disappear. causing it to look identical to the approach they believed they were flying over mcmurdo sound. >> they were seeing what they expected to see, a cloud base above them, a bay or whatev...

Going back to that navigate bit of the mantra, pilot looks up, looks at his equipment and says where's the nearest airfield. . the chances are the airfield is going to be concealed by cloud. you can see if the pilot is trying to land this aircraft the airstrip if it's within the proximity of the region will be covered by cloud up until whatever the cloud base is. the cloud base is on the peaks of the mountain. it's going to be an incredible difficult situation because the pilots are not going to get visual potentially if they have a diversion airfield. they are not going -- they are going to h...

5,000. and the speed, this is the important bit, there was a speed reduction from over 600 nats to 200 knots. that gives a rate of descent of 3 to 4,000 feet per minute, which isn't unusual. >> or dramatic. it's occurring, but it's not a dramatic fall. >> so the interesting bit for me in terms -- >> let me interrupt you. tease are pictures of the alps. . . i wanted you to e see this. this is our friends at france 24. now some video, very clearly showing the rugged aspect the difficult area that these responders are going to have to be going through. >> the interesting bit about that footage is...

That this helicopter had been down roughly almost 12 hours ago. to give you a sense of how foggy it's been, i want to show you behind me rkts this, this is one of the staging areas. it's along a five mile stretch. where we are right now that area right there was not visible just an hour and a half ago. the cloud base was just about 200 feet. conditions that would make it very hard for aircraft. staff here tell us they go and practice and train in these situations rain or shine regardless of what the visibility is. they say that allows them to be better trained. it did play a part in that situa...