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The plane is experiencing light turbulence as it flies through the inner tropical zone. here warm, humid air rises, cools and condenses into large cloud formations. they encountered a weather system that blossomed up. so now the pilots use weather radar to try and pick their way through these dynamic weather systems. >> still, nothing out ordinary for this time of the year but what the pilots could not know is that ice is building up inside critical sensors called the pito tubes. >> it is a long utilized well-established device to measure air speed and then the a 330 they are located below the...

The potential problems with pito tubes freezing over and begun modifications just two days prior to the accident. the official report maintains that improving pilot training including exercises dedicated to manually aircraft handling is the key lesson of flight 447. >> you had professional pilots that had gone through professional pilot training but none of these pilots had ever been trained to fly the airplane manually at high altitude with these levels of sensitivity. coming up, an out of control passenger jet plummets towards the ocean. >> the confusion on the flight deck on that airplane...

Levels of 50000. how should a pilot navigate through this serious weather? >> that's one of the quandries, it's sometimes an impossible situation, every time you go up 1,000 feet in the air, the temperature drops by one degree sent grade if there's moisture in the air, that increases the chances of icing on the wing, icings on pieces of equipment. and u you can't usually go under the thunderstorms, because that's worse quite often. >> we have is talked quite often about pito tubes, and one of the issues that's been agreed and disagreed upon here on my show today is whether or not icing was an ...

>> that's one of those quandries that it's sometimes an impossible situation. the other bad part of it is that every time you go up 1,000 feet in the air, the temperature drops one degree sent grade, so you loses temperature, which means if there's moisture in the air, that increases the chances of icing on the wings, icings on important parts of the equipment. it's just a bad situation, and yet you can't usually go under the thunderstorms, because that's worse quite often. >> we have talked a lot today about pito tubes and one of the issues that's sort of been agreed and disagreed upon here o...

The optimum burn. you're up high up there where the air is rare, so to speak. that's why most of the time virtually all of the time in these modern aircraft, it's being flown by auto pilot because you cannot course the airplane around up there or you will depart control of flight. >> we talked earlier about this air france flight that crashed in the south atlantic. the ultimate cause was found to be a clogged pito tube, clogged with ice. it is my understanding air france and the other manufacturers, other airlines, made changes with the pito tubes. would this airbus a320 have incorporated chan...