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If a plane does stall, how should a pilot react? tom said it would take a very calm crew or pilot to get a plane back on track, or to deal with that situation. >> well it depends on the nature of the stall. i mean you're trained to recover from the stalls in flight school. i mean literally the first week. but the problem is the nature of the stall and if it's a stall in this kind of weather and you've lost the stall as one of the other guests mentioned and off the wings and the tail and you can't recover because you have no control surfaces left that are responsive very difficult if not imposs...

Simulate lightning to make sure essentially that the aircraft is engineered to shed that electricity to not penetrate the skin of the plane to become a catastrophic situation, so it is engineered to deal with the weather conditions, but the weather becomes when a pilot is finding himself or herself in this situation, does this individual react properly. so it could be a combination of the weather pattern and how did this pilot react. >> i believe we will try one more time with alister on the phone. are you there, alister? okay. with we are having some problems getting alister and the grem lynn...

They're built in this way. the critical part is when an aircraft is in these sort of weather conditions, does the pilot react? does the pilot react correct sfli that's critical as well. to your question, you know, does weather play a role? we're still waiting to see. when you look at the satellite imagery at this point, there is no doubt that this aircraft did go through some very bad weather. >> renee marsh joining us by phone, aviation correspond in washington, renee, stay by the phone. we'll get back with you in a few moments. let's bring in now alice derosenshine. so let's get straight to ...

Sky? >> caller: yes, we were. we were in row 16. you could see blue sky, the wiring, cabling. everything, it was terrifying. >> ma'am, what do you do from that point on? i'm sure things go through your mind. the possible, god for bid, a crash of the plane. how did the flight attendants and pilot react. >> my husband was like oh, my gosh, it's blue sky. we looked up at each other and thought this is not a good sign. we looked up. the air masks fell down within seconds. we grabbed the masks and looked out the window. when i tried to look out, the aircraft went into a complete nose dive, fast. >>...