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Explain more tomorrow. >> one of the questions that's going to be asked tomorrow is do you deny "the new york times" report? and if they don't deny it, then it will apparently stand. >> it's certainly unverified. but the information is potentially alarming and certainly deserves analysis. what i can take from that is that we talk about incapacitation and we talk about the lack of pilots to react to the situation they're in whether it's because it was a decompression scenario or because someone had gone wrong with the instruments, the bottom line if there was someone knocking on the door, that ...

The first thing you do. this is called a cabin altitude issue. that means a decompression scenario. and bear in mine the environment that this might mean for the pilots. you have a sudden pop, explosion, whatever you might say. things are flying. you might have loss of lighting or power. you might lose your primary flight display. the screen you use to fly. you might be using little gauges. it is a very chaotic environment. and they say that flying is long hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror. this is a stark terror moment. so obviously the oxygen masks go on first. that's nu...