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Board the airasia flight. one passenger from singapore and one from malaysia. and south koreans and one british passenger. the bulk of the cabin indonesian, 149 on board. there were no americans on the plane. it was the first commercial airline to have fly by wire. i flew military tactical jet. called the f-18. that is what i flew in the military. talking about fly by wire technology essentially what that means, you are a pilot we fly more simple airplanes where cessna would put in control input and directly connect to a surface control to make the change. in fly by wire technology that input ...

Shut down, the flight control systems were reacting. and then, electronic check list, which they depend upon might have shut down completely. they had to refer to maybe a standard paper check list which may be difficult to contend with. and all of this is unfolding before them in a problem that seems small at first to make a bigger issue. that is my contention. >> it flew five hours on auto pilot? >> it is possible. who knows? it's electronic airplane. >> let's bring john in. >> i don't like that theory but i'm open to anything. >> why don't you like it? >> the cascading failures don't go down...