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It's only 2300 kilograms, basically the weight of a door put it in comparison. a 747 you and i fly on is about 400,000 kilograms. it needs anything less than 7 kilometers of crosswind. you can imagine, paula that with winds picking up dust and sand from the gobi desert, it's not going to allow this particular plane to take off. >> no. i certainly hope they have a team of meteorologists in tow to make sure they are safe on that journey, and i know you'll continue to keep us on top of that jrn journey many are keepi close eye on. fascinating. >> thanks. china's newest military-grade runway on ...

When reviewing the tape you can see the pilot is attempting to raise the nose power the aircraft up to climb, but aircraft systems, those computers overrode the pilots' signals, according to the information that has been reported. there is another incident in which a strong cross wind landing was being attempted. the wind was approximately 45 knots, direct cross wind across a runway. an a320 aircraft was attempting to land, and the aircraft almost went off the runway during touchdown phase. it was later determined that the programmed flight computer parameters didn't allow the type of pilot in...

>> and go ahead, miles. >> all right. start out with laguardia airport with 7,000 feet of runway, it is a varsity airport landing site for sure for experienced airliners. the md-88 needs about 1,000 landing runway, and on this day, the ceiling is low and the navigation equipment will allow you the land this in worse weather, and so it chose to land on the runway even though the wind did not favor it, so this particular airplane had a quartering tailwind meaning a crosswind component. and two things were happening. you had very close to the minimums for waeteather. and you had a plane that was ...

Wind. meaning, they had cross wind as well as were being pushed by the wind. they would have been landing faster and would have compensated for the cross wind. >> should this plane have been flying in these conditions? >> yes. the aircraft are fit for that. they can land in those conditions. as miles was pointing out, we can go back to that. there's anti-skid systems on the aircraft. many times you land with the brakes nearly on right as you touch down and let the anti-skid figure out which needs to go more. at this point, that's a possibility these one of the things i would look as well. >> t...

Runway no overrun area. it's a dicey airport on a good day. this was by no means a good day. this was very marginal conditions. you had a runway that the term is contaminated meaning it was icy. the question of what the braking capability on the runway is very important. they were landing downwind meaning they had a tail wind which would mean the aircraft was going faster relative to the ground and it was also some component of that wind was a cross-wind which would have caused instability potentially as they were trying to line up on the center line of the runway may have caused a wing to dip...