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The captain instructs the flight attendant to prepare for a landing. then air traffic control and the captain accepts a runway change that will speed up their arrival time, but first officer don williams says he'll have to scramble to get down in time for the shorter approach. >> modern jets are so aerodynamically efficient, one of the greatest challenges in flying them is getting them down and getting them to slow down. speed breaks or flight spoilers are devices used to help increase the descent rate to help it slow down. >> the captain deploys 965 speed brakes and types in the letter r for ...

Landing. and then they accept a runway change that will speed up their arrival time. but first officer don williams says he'll have to scramble to get down in time for the shorter approach. >> modern jets are so aerodynamically efficient, one of the greatest challenges in flying them is getting them down and getting them to slow down. speed breaks or flight spoilers are devices used to help increase the descent rate to help it slow down. >> the captain deploys 965 speed brakes and types in the letter r for rozo, the code for the radio beacon a few miles short of the runway. but instead of flyi...

Landing. and then they accept a runway change that will speed up their arrival time. but first officer don williams says he'll have to scramble to get down in time for the shorter approach. >> modern jets are so aerodynamically efficient, one of the greatest challenges in flying them is getting them down and getting them to slow down. speed breaks or flight spoilers are devices used to help increase the descent rate to help it slow down. >> the captain deploys 965 speed brakes and types in the letter r for rozo, the code for the radio beacon a few miles short of the runway. but instead of flyi...

Together. a lot of instructors should have observed this kind of behavior. and then as we know there's a report of him leaving, which is very untypical. >> the training. >> during the training process. exactly can. and this should have in and of itself thrown up a red flag. all through that process, and getting to -- back to germany to train on the airbus itself. somebody should have seen something that was off. and i think that's where we should look on this aside from the fact that he set the autopilot and let's extinguish between vertical speed and regular speed. he set the vertical speed. ...

Safety inspector joins us this morning and the aviation analyst and inspector general from the u.s. department of aviation. mary when we understand what is being communicated is it clear that the plane was doing what it was supposed to do, the pilot was doing what he was supposed to do and it's all about the co-pilot fought doing what he was supposed to do is that clear now? >> well that is clear. already lots of reports the day before there was maintenance on the nose. those things are just noise at this point. it's clearly the plane was performing exactly as it should. we know since they dia...