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The instruments? >> primarily you're looking outside. you're trying to get a feel using your peripheral vision of how much -- how rapidly you're sinking to the ground. if you -- you look out, you look out the wind screen, coming down too fast, you hit the ground an get picked back up into it. if you're notsinking at all, landing is done by looking outside the air crave. he would have been looking outside the aircraft as the air traffic controller talked him through everything. >> the biggest question was, he didn't know how to turn the plane off. where is the switch? >> right here. so this is ...

By CHAD GARLAND | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 12, 2021 A Reaper drone crashed at the end of a New York runway last year because the operators mixed up the levers on the control panel, an Air Force investigation report released last week said. The unmanned MQ-9A Reaper quickly lost power and hit the ground about a minute after its takeoff from Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, N.Y., resulting in a loss of over $6 million in government property, the Air Force accident investigation board headed by Lt. Col. Brian E. Prichard said. The drone was assigned to the 174th Attack Win...

He made the whole cockpit, and even went so far as to screw in all the switches. >> confirm? >> confirm. >> condition lever, confirm? >> confirm. >> feather. electrical feather switch. confirm? >> confirm. >> we used to sit together and do call-outs in the hot garage, because he built it, it was so big, we couldn't get it in the door of the house. copilot ejection seat confirmed? >> no. that would be negative, captain. >> confirm. >> and it was his dream. you know, to be able to live it was amazing. and how it had to end was -- but at least he got to do it. >> well, i built it to be as realist...

Some day i'm going to have to have some pretty tough conversations with them about what was said about their dad. it's not going to be a fun part. >> and at both ends of the string through each bead. or you can do two separate one. ♪ >> okay. let's go through the rest of the single engine emergency action items, please. and we'll just -- >> did you turn the engine off? >> yes, the engine is off. >> okay, good. >> when he first was in school, he made the whole cockpit, and even went so far as to screw in all the switches. >> confirm? >> confirm. >> condition lever, confirm? >> confirm. >> fea...