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Airport. he can the control wheel all the way left and all the way back to right. that's when i said, i've got it. >> he wrestles the plane back to a wing's level position. >> with the steering the aircraft started to roll over on its back and would have continued to roll over and dive into the ground except at that fact, al reached over and advanced the throttle on the right wind and retarded the throttle on the left wing and the asymmetric thrust picked the wing up slowly and steadied the aircraft. if he hadn't done it within a few seconds of when he did it, it would have been unrecoverable....

Begins to vibrate and shutter. pilots determine the number two engine has failed. >> i began to realize how serious it was when i saw the flight crew come back, and they were trying to look out the windows, the passenger windows, just to observe what was going on with the physical condition of the airplane. and you could tell by looking at the flight crew that something serious was up. >> and as they go through the checklist, officer bill records, who was flying the plane, realized they had a more serious problem than they thought. >> we were shutting airplane down and going through procedure ...

Correction. more than likely if it's not subtle the pilot is already on the control wheel as we've talked about before and disconnecting the auto pilot and attempting to control the airplane manually. >> gentlemen thank you so much. there are these two mysteries that remain what happened in the air and what happened on the surface of the sea. hopefully we'll get more answers in the coming days and minutes. up next he's the pilot that land ad u.s. airways plane on the hudson river, saving everyone on board. up next we'll hear from sully sullenberger about what he thinks may have happened to t...

You don't have a lot of actual pressures versus a control wheel like you see in some of the boeings. like what happened as you talked about the copilot in air france and pulling back, kept the airplane in stall all the way down into the ocean. the captain could not feel that. they can't feel necessarily what the other pilot is doing with the joystick. led to a lot of confusion in that cockpit. sadly a very preventable accident. jon: as our viewers know a stall she is referring to when the wings are at such an angle angle of attack they call it, air flowing over them doesn't provide support or ...

Right, and less we-- and les di this normal job. demonstrate, tell us about the pictures we'll see? >> just a demonstration of hour cumbersome it can be in an emergency situation, if you've got a smoke/fire situation, even a situation where you have a decompression. that would be the same mask in either case. and you have to communicate through that mask. with a switch on the control wheel, and go through a checklist and your vision is limited, as it would be very even more limiteded by, by smoke, visibility in the cockpit. it's something we don't practice very often. even in a simulator, beca...