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Now, before you jumped -- >> his fingers are going. >> before you jump at that. >> miles wants in too, richard. finish arthur, then miles. >> you cannot analyze facts in isolation. they must be analyzed in the context of an accident sequence, which is a 14-minute period when this communication between the captain. >> miles, what do you make of this, though? this possible switch in who was communicating? >> arthur knows well that it could very well be the case that as they leveled off, the first officer was doing the p.a. announcement for the people. and so the captain got on the radio to answe...

Analyst miles o'brien and has been listening and has a lot of questions for you. but pick one of them. >> okay. i want to run this by mitchell and martin. the audio control bpanel. i counted 16 buttons. there is the audio control panel. granted you get used to that as time goes on. it is easy. you are broadcasting to the folks. so you have a high time captain who would have been flying and if he wasn't the flying pilot in this case. if he wasn't. he would have taken over. and you have a lower time first officer 200 hours in the aircraft in a chaotic situation. time is limited. and you have to ...

The air speed? it's going to be, i think, a combination of human factors and how the pilots interact with the machine. jon: it's my understanding that auto throttles on the jet are designed to shut down at 100 feet elevation so they don't start blasting power as the pilot is trying to bleed off power for the landings. >> that's right. and there's also an indication that as the flying pilot has his hands on the throttle, if they're not loosely on the throttle, that could disengage the auto throttle, if he's gripping it. you don't know yet. this is going to be a pretty complex investigation. no ...

>> we talked about in order to get certified in aircraft manufacturer has to show a fully loaded aircraft can be evacuated fully evacuated within 90 seconds. what we saw her was the first doors and slides weren't open for about 90 seconds. >> the evacuation started after a flight aiden tant saw flames coming out of the plane and told the people on board to get out. new information from the pilot interviews the flying pilot reported being blinded by a bright light. it is a huge dust storm and it is caught on camera in phoenix, arizona. at one point this massive cloud was at least 20 miles wide ...

Investigators they set the auto throttle to maintain descent speed. investigators will determine if it was set properly. >> we are now going to be looking at flight data recorder information to validate parameters associated with the auto pilot and automation, things like the autothough throttles. we need to work to understand what the different modes are, what can be selected and what the crew understood. >> reporter: what the crusade they did understand too late was that the aircraft was way too low and slow. >> we have a flying pilot, and we have two other pilots that are in the cockpit and...