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But her mother and father are among the dead that include 149 other passengers and all eight crew members. mercedes, one of only four survivors is in critical condition with internal injuries and a broken pelvis. >> my gi track intestinal area had to be operated on and rerouted to get better. >> black boxes recovered intact prove the boeing 757 was functioning perfectly. now investigators have to find out what caused the jet to crash four minutes before it was supposed to land. according to columbia civil aviation, it comes down to a key stroke. the crew misprogrammed the final coordinate into...

Among the dead that include 149 other passengers and all eight crew members. mercedes, one of only four survivors is in critical condition with internal injuries and a broken pelvis. >> my gi track intestinal area had to be operated on and rerouted to get better. >> black boxes recovered intact prove the boeing 757 was functioning perfectly. now investigators have to find out what caused the jet to crash four minutes before it was supposed to land. according to columbia civil aviation, it comes down to a key stroke. the crew misprogrammed the final coordinate into the flight management compute...

Says three words that cause tension in the cockpit to soar. where are we? the flight management computer has inexplicably sent the plane in the wrong direction. >> the instrument said what you put in this box says you need to make a turn and go back in that direction. well that created a situational position confusion for the flight crew. >> first officer williams has taken manual control while the crew desperately try to figure out where they are in the dark and what's going on with their computer. >> the longer the crew talks about it, the more uncertainty there is that things are what they ...

But her mother and father are among the dead that include 149 other passengers and all eight crew members. mercedes, one of only four survivors is in critical condition with internal injuries and a broken pelvis. >> my gi track intestinal area had to be operated on and rerouted to get better. >> black boxes recovered intact prove the boeing 757 was functioning perfectly. now investigators have to find out what caused the jet to crash four minutes before it was supposed to land. according to columbia civil aviation, it comes down to a key stroke. the crew misprogrammed the final coordinate into...

Them to need to come down. that's the first question. secondly as they started descent, which was controlled because it was not an emergency descent, in emergency descent, it would have descended much more rapidly. it was controlled. the airplane stayed on track. that indicates that the airplane was still being flown by auto pilot, under the flight management computer. that indicates it was a controlled descent. normally in a descent like that pilots will set an altitude for it to level off. typically 10,000 feet. was that not set or did the airplane not level off, we don't have that informati...