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Surroundings and issues around the crash itself and what the ntsb is willing to reveal? >> yeah, thomas, this is very much about why the crew of asiana flight 214 failed to notice their air speed had dropped as they approached san francisco last july 6th. whether they truly understood the computer-assist the flight control systems and whether they simply didn't have the skills to land the plane manually. today the korean pilots union suggested boeing's auto throttle speed control system had a design flaw because it disengages when the pilot goes off auto pilot to fly manually, which it did. bo...

Total destruction of the aircraft. >> by the time radio contact is made at 4:53, the connection is so bad, the pilots and controller can't understand each other. the planes are closing in. >> everybody was sort of dozing, working. hear and feel bang. the loudest noise i've ever heard. i was in vietnam, heard bombs. every atom in my body, i felt kind of implode. i have flown as a passenger a lot, you go through all kinds of weather and turbulence and i've never felt an impact like this before. >> because of the angle they collide, the 737, though much larger, takes a far worse hit than the lega...

But first, why was this launch postponed? >> reporter: well, tamron, each of the shuttles have what they call auxiliary power units on board and they actually drive the flight control systems. well, about four hours before they were to lift off, the heaters that keep these power control units working when they're needed within the atmosphere, a couple of them went out of whack. it was running high so they looked at it and they said, hey, we've got a real problem here. it's just not a indication. so they had to shut down everything, and now during the next hour or so they're going to be figurin...

The one that we hear about in terms of recording the voices of the pilots, co-pilot, what is happening in the cockpit. and essentially the investigation will focus on downloading the at that tidata cockpit voice recorder and the flight data roerd aeporters and specialists will be able to determine right up to the point that electric cat power was cut off to those systems exactly what happened on that airplane in terms of the flight control systems and everything associated mechanically and electrically as well as everything happening in the cockpit in terms of the pilots talking to one another...

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