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Window down to desired altitude. could have been zero. the plane would leave altitude. you could use the descent wheel which he indicated. it's unlike he just pushed the stick forward. it would require hitting the button on flight control panel. the flight change square. >> i have so much more. we're going to explore this through the two hours. mindful of 149 people on board and the screams that were heard on this cockpit voice recorder. those last few moments which to me indicates awareness. you think the people in the front of the cabin would have seen or heard this pilot banging on the cock...

Of descent. we know it stayed on track. those two things indicate a probability that the airplane was still in the auto flight system. the pilot was flying the airplane with commands from the flight control panel or the computer. the airplane is electrically powered. the questions arise, why did they need to come down? there's a variety of reasons. a smoke event, a depressure depressurization event, those would be reasons to come down. why didn't they stop the descent at 10,000 feet? that's something the investigators are going to look at. fortunately, we've got one of the recorders and i expe...

Skills have led to a change in the traditional pilot mindset. pilots now assume everything selected will function and if it doesn't the computers will warn them and take care of it. the degradation of flying skills is endemic throughout the airline industry. joining me now is captain bill savage. bill first off you brought something in to show us to show how much an airline pilot has to look at as they fly. what's next to you >> well this is a flight training panel of boeing 777, and it indicates all the forward controls and the pedestal controls of boeing 777. and the first officer would be s...

The instruments to have a counter balance as to what the aircraft was doing, what i was looking at and how the airplane was operating. all of this is within hand reach. it's about the same distance that i'm sitting now although you would be facing forward. but both pilots can easily reach the flight control panel, you know within a hand reach. so while it looks very complicated, the training is so in depth that it becomes second nature to operate all of these switches and buttons and dials and it becomes much easier to fly the airplane when it's automated state. if all else fails the pilots ca...