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Calm complex airplane. pilots say it's not easy to fly. for someone who is a pilot it would be a handful i'm surprised he did as well as he did. >> i understand they were trying to get him to land. how much more difficult would be to land a craft as opposed to getting it in the air? would he be able to land it safely? >> well, it's certainly easier to get it airborne than it is to put it on the runway and keep the track on the concrete. oftentimes, the people that are not pilots that have tried to force land a small airplane, they can get it to the runway, but keeping it on the runway is much ...

To anything in between? does a lot fall under the unfit to fly category? >> sure. we categorize a lot of health problems by organ systems. in this case we don't know what he was suffering from. relationship difficulties alcohol, stress, post-traumatic stress anxiety depression. there's a wide range of mental health issues that can can affect the performance of a pilot. it depends on the pilot's willingness to disclose to the health care professional and the health care professional themselves to see someone is in difficulty. >> as a pilot it's your responsibility to disclose this to your emplo...

Memory in it, they can recover the data. >> how big do you think? how big of a flash memory? >> looking at the pictures of it. as a pilot it operates behind the scenes for us, pretty much always on from the time you start your checklist until you park the plane so it's always there. in this case the drive is pretty large. it takes about half of it on one side. and then controller boards and then a computer that has software. what it generates you can't read directly. you have to take it into a program. >> that's inside. we will go back inside in a minute. this is the locator beacon. >> they ar...

That's one small step foreman -- for man. one giant leap foreman kind. >> with those words neil armstrong became a national hero as the first man to walk on the moon. today we mourn the loss of that man. armstrong passing away at the age of 82 after a remarkable life that inspired generations to reach for the stars. >> the eying legal has -- the eagle has landed. >> it was for me the highlight and it was very challenging. there were a lot of unknowns. for a pilot it was a wonderful experience. >> on july 16th, 1969 neil armstrong blasted off to the moon. his voyage would take him where no man ...

So far where aircraft basically can fly themselves from takeoff to landing. about the only thing they can't do right now is taxiing, and i think we're working on that. but for a pilot it gets very boring up there. you know, after you get above that 10,000 feet which they consider the critical phase of flight, there's not a lot of things to do other than kind of your normal reporting. so you're basically up there doing your quarterly checks, checking in with air traffic control, checking your map, maybe talking to your first officer, but that's it. so it can get a little quiet up there. gregg: ...