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The speeds increase enormously. we do know that the ground speed indicates over 400 miles an hour, so there is some issue that prevented the flight crew from either recovering at an altitude that would have provided them the ability to maintain an altitude above the terrain or there was an issue that prevented them, such as incapacitation incapacitation. that's yet to be determine or confirmed. hopefully, one of the boxes will tell us that. >> john let me come back to you and ask you about the maintenance of this plane. just yesterday, this plane had a maintenance check. does that surprise you...

Largely reclaimed land. 7,000 feet on either runway. and on a good day, you got to really put it down right where you should and get on the brakes really hard and do your job without any mistakes because there's not a lot of margin for error. on a day like today, it gets even trickier of course. low visibility, low clouds and a slick runway. that's a bad combination here. in this case, ashleigh, i'd like -- i hope chad is still listening. the winds at la guardia right now are about 16 knots, getting close to 20 miles per hour as a tail wind. in other words, they would have been landing with th...

Aircraft as far as the differences indicated in the ground speed. >> that answers the question completely jeffrey. now i fully understand. the ones i had mentioned earlier, there were some head winds that turned to tail winds very quickly indicating wind sheer, but if that's only 25 indicated in there, it says it wasn't as severe, so i'm on board. >> miles, what do you think? >> i've spent a lot of time flying around in thunderstorms in little planes and i can tell you the forecast for winds aloft, what you see in that forecast and what you encounter are very divergent. particularly in a dynam...

There -- this was a surviveable event and someone drowned, of course, you'd see water in their lungs and all that kind of thing. all these bits and pieces and factual information will eventually make the bottom line story. but, you know getting them in isolation and trying build a storyline is really unfair at this point. >> you do believe that once we have the black box, we'll be able to put together more information about the story? >> absolutely. because the data on the flight data recorder it will give us an understanding of what the airplane was doing as it went into that thunderstorm. th...

Explain that to us. basically not just the net air speed. >> yes. the indicated air speed, i think, and maybe jeffrey can help me with this but i didn't see that we knew the indicated air speed there. so what we're talking about is the distance that it traveled from one point to another and how far it went on the ground speed, indicating -- help me understand this but it looks like the aircraft was then at an extremely high descent rate which would make sense, but at the same time we're saying it was an ascent rising too. so help me understand that part too, jeffrey. it doesn't seem to make se...