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Into the stall that they couldn't get out of is there anything that you would think this plane could promise it had, catastrophic at that altitude? >>, that's one of the worst things that could happy. pilots are just monitoring everything. the auto pilot, in their case, they had a static system failure, which then feeds erroneous data to the flight management computers. and the auto pilot uses that data, too. just like the pilots use it it and what would happen if your static system freezes up, or the feto spreezes up you can get al tenor that goes in the opposite direction. the airspeed indic...

Into the stall that they couldn't get out of is there anything that you would think this plane could promise it had, catastrophic at that altitude? >>, that's one of the worst things that could happy. pilots are just monitoring everything. the auto pilot, in their case, they had a static system failure, which then feeds erroneous data to the flight management computers. and the auto pilot uses that data, too. just like the pilots use it it and what would happen if your static system freezes up, or the feto spreezes up you can get al tenor that goes in the opposite direction. the airspeed indic...

Pilots will have a lot more information in the cockpit. >> they're all moving along this very precise path. we know where the path is. the controller knows where the path is we have got auto pilots and flight management computers that are guiding the airplane along that path. >> at a cost of $340,000 per plane, alaska airlines equipped its entire fleet, its been using g.p.s. to land in places like juneau for about a decade. starting in june will begin testing it at ctack. if it does well you can expect every airport switching from radar to g.p.s. within the next five to ten years it will not b...