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In fact, there's some newer recorders that are looking to operate in the eight kilohertz range which is considerably lower than the 37 we're talking about. >> let's talk about the black boxes for a moment. the cockpit voice recorder, will that be of any use at this point to us? as i understand it, it records over itself every couple hours. >> it does record over itself, but, yes, it will be useful because the microphone in the device is very sensitive, so if there's a person moving around in the airplane, if there's a person making inputs into the devices on the airplane, moving the control wh...

So may have been pilot saying something is wrong >> if you had a catastrophic event occurring would you not turn using control wheel? >> it depends on the situation, john. if it's serious enough, yes. but we don't know what they were facing at that time. >> they're saying the way points punched foo the plane were ones that would keep it off of the radar and undetectable by certain monitors is that possible? nefraious way points put in? >> if you go into that you as part of the preflight you go through the route and verify every way point along it. if there is a way point in there that doesn't ...

Of the runway you are still flying and what pilots will do, bring the control wheel back to pitch the nose up so they don't touchdown to the nose gear. they touch on the mains and they slow, they slowly release the pressure on the wheel, but there is still steevg with the rudder. i'm seeing where the aircraft is now. i didn't travel very far from the time the tail came off. again without those controls, they wouldn't be able to do much with the airplane except hold on. while there is noseable steering, if it hit hard enough to sever the tail it probably collapsed the gear as well. >> heather: ...

Link between the cockpit controls and the flight controls on the tail, the rudder and the wings. what happens is is the pilot controls the control wheel and the control yoke and the throttles are connected to flight computers that interpret the pilot's input. if the computer accepts the inputs it then transmits that data to the aircraft flight controls. what happens is some pilots have reported loss of control of the aircraft without any pilot input. this has been a problem dogging the airbus series since its inception and fundamentally these computers have computer code just like every other ...