Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20140205:20:55:00
Landing system on the runway may be key, called the glide scope, the gps system that glides planes in. right before that runway there's a hill and seconds before the crash the cockpit alarm went off saying sink rate, meaning the plane is descending too fast, seven seconds later hit trees and struck the hill. for context you'll remember back in san francisco, at tasiana aircraft in july that airport did not have the glide working. >> do we know how long it was before they got the big main runway open? >> really a couple minutes. 45 seconds after the air traffic controller asked the ups if they ...
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