CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports March 23, 2014 18:47:00
There's a fire, decompression, you want the plane back to safe harbor, airport behind you, is that something a pilot would do in those circumstances, turn the heading, get headed back in a direction, safer direction? >> that's absolutely correct. the plane at that point in our case would have been on autopilot. fire, decompression. you're donning the mask, getting down and getting to the nearest airport immediately. you would do that using heading bug. asking for vector, mayday, mayday, my day, have an emergency, need to get to the airport immediately. clear an emergency. priority. heading bac...
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