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>> the noise of the disintegration of the airplane was so huge, i didn't hear anything else. >> january 20th, 1992, 6:20 p.m. airinter flight 5148 runs down and takes off from lyon, france, on a short commuter flight to strasbourg. 90 passengers are on board, most of them business travelers and 6 crew members. graduate student nicolas is in the last row of seats. >> i was visiting my girlfriend who was living in strasbourg. >> captain christian hekay and joel sherabin are in the cockpit of the revolutionary airbus

The effectiveness of the ground proximity warning equipment to provide pilots with an earlier warning than the 12 second they had on flight 965. >> the cali accident was one of the true industry game changers. after this accident the recognition of the critical need for predictive technology revolutionized aviation safety and the control rate accident type went down dramatically. >> out of all of the planes that were in the sky that day, why, why our plane? why us? >> mercedes ramirez still struggles to make sense of a world without the two cherished people she lost that night. >> i would do a...

Vertical speed setting would be displayed as a four-digit number, preventing confusion with the unit's flight path angle mode. airinter also increased pilot training for the a320. >> after this, you can't compose a crew with two persons with less than 300 hours of flight on airbus a-320. >> translator: i am heartbroken. >> the sadness endures for hubert who lost his son hue, a flight attendant in the crash. he still can't accept the moment that took down flight 5148, the turn of a knob that began their lethal loss of altitude. >> translator: they had 17 seconds to realize that they were in a b...

A320, the world's first commercial airliner to have completely computerized controls. its bold advertisements declare a superior intelligence has arrived. >> similar to what you have on your home computer when you're trying to fly a flight simulator with the joystick. it's all computer controlled. you're never physically moving the flight controller. >> airinter was a regional sort of airline. so this was a bit of an upstart carrier. but they were a highly motivated group that wanted the airline to succeed. >> part of that success depends on competing with france's high-speed train system. put...

Mountaineer keith woodford has his own ideas how new zealand's deadliest aviation disaster could have been avoided. >> if they had reacted 10 seconds earlier, there was a reasonable chance that the plane could have been able to climb out of it. so close. >> but why was the plane flying so close to the volcano? investigators discover that on the morning of november 28th, air new zealand flight ops changed 901's final flight coordinate. instead of flying their usual route down the middle mcmurdo sound, the jet was shifted over lewis sound and directly into mount erebus. >> the shift meant that t...