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Something is going to go terribly wrong. but i think that during that descent, they may not have had any questions about it, other than why are we descending but the point of impact, my point is there was no suffering, no painfulness. it was within seconds, within a second probably. that is when this occurred. i don't think there would have been pain and suffering at least. >> david, other crashers, twa flight 800, they basically reconstructed the entire aircraft. in a situation like this where you have such small pieces, will the black boxes be enough? do they actually need to go through that...

>> even with oscillations in height from, say, eight to four, if you were hand flying an aircraft into that descent, how challenging would that be? >> well, it depends upon the circumstance that i'm facing. if i have an emergency situation that's affecting my flight controls or i'm running through a checklist and i get distracted with certain items i have to accomplish on that checklist, it may take away from the subtleties of maintaining the vertical speed. >> you're looking for, where's the energy? are the engines on or off? if you look at the charts, you see the air speed declining and you ...

Certain service-like issues where they have to double check the limitations being met by various avionics the elts, all these things have to be checked periodically everywhere that mant to every 90 days or so. there's various checks that are done throughout the year. >> jay, is this a difficult plane to fly? >> the airbus is reported to be an excellent aircraft in all respects. there are some people out there who have an issue about the fly by wire that this aircraft is designed. fly by wire is a little different from the design of most airliners, because older airliners, boeing in particular ...

Where we with dig deeper into the aircraft itself. we'll look at the engine and flight controls and various items. >> the supreme court well, it's hearing a free speech case today. high court will decide whether the state of texas was wrong to reject a specialty license plate featuring the confederate flag whether it is the government of drivers who are speaking on specialty license plates and we'll drill down on the issue of confederate flags on license plates in the next half hour. robert durst is behind bars but for just how long? his lawyers are making a bold plea as the millionaire once...

Much better. at the time that this plane was coming in there was snow and freezing fog, 26 degrees, only a quarter-mile visibility winds north at 9 miles per hour. it would be up to the faa, correct, to give pilots the information they need to choose whether or not they want to land at laguardia at this time? >> yes, the tower controllers and the automated systems provide weather information for the pilots as they're approaching the airport. they also indicate which runway is active and the conditions on the runway at the time. but statistically, the landing phase of airplane flight is the mos...