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I think we can get kind of distracted with our head phones on and we don't realize what's going on around us. this was a gentleman standing in the bulk head talking to the flight attendants and i went up. i was sitting in row five. i went to go to the bathroom. he was standing there and said the bathroom is closed. that seemed strange to me but i didn't think much of it. i went to the back. when i sat down in my seat, there was an offduty pilot next to me and he was really concerned with what was happening up front. and the gentleman was wearing a bicycle helmet and a hoodie. i wasn't thinking...

They reported that an offduty pilot was able to step in instructing them to shut off the automatic flight control system. the jet was cleared to fly the next day. >> i can't understand why wasn't test flown. >> reporter: and the chairman of the safety agency just wrapped a press conference confirming some of those details about the doomed lion air flight back in october, but disputing reports about the conversations that were captured on the cockpit voice recorder, including that reuters report that the plane's crew scoured the flight manual and pray dollars in the minutes before the crash. er...

Cockpit voice recorder desperately trying to pull up the nose of the jet. seemingly unaware that the plane's compute wares causing the dives, reuters reports that the pilots frantically scoured the operations manual then said a short prayer before plunging into the sea. day before the crash, the same plane had the same problem. indonesian authorities confirmed that an offduty pilot who was riding in the cockpit was able to step anyone instructing crew to shut off the flight control system. after being sent to maintenance, the jet was cleared to flight next day. >> i can't understand why at lea...

Similar sort of problems, the nose kept getting pushed down. and we were led to believe that the pilots had worked out to switch the motor off of the machinery doing that. well, now it apparently appears the pilots didn't know that. they were working their way through it, but it was an off duty pilot riding in the jump seat, as it's known, that actually pointed out to the pilots who were having difficulty getting control of the aircraft telling them to turn off the motor. it was the offduty pilot that pointed out to the actual pilots flying. and then you've got this reuters report which shows ...