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Different level and quick, and it was a good thing those automatic alerts were in the cockpit, after all, thousands of planes, thousands of planes, chris cross the united states every day. when you see what it looks like, it's mind-boggling. not much room up there to make these quick changes. bob francis is former vice chairman of the national transportation safety board and we're glad to have him with us today. how are you? >> i'm fine, thanks. martha: are you surprised to hear this happened or do you feel like hey, this happens a lot more than you realize? >> i think this happens a hat lor -...

In mountainous terrain. the pilot communicates to a third party. the third party communicates then every 15 minutes to air traffic, any country. that plane is tracked along precise routes over the ocean and supposed to report every 15 minutes. that's the primary communication. secondary systems, and the 777 has so much redundancy, it's hard to believe it would lose it all at once. secondary communication is a constant feed of data back to airline operations on every aspect of engine performance and how that plane is performing. so there's, you know, and the transponder then is the last layer o...

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>> shepard: a massive avalanche killed three skiers after it swept them about a quarter mile down a canyon over the weekend. it happened yesterday at stevens pass in washington's cascade mountains about 80 miles north and east of seattle. about a dozen people were making their way through a foot and a half of fresh snow in an out of bounds area when the wall of snow carried four of them the distance of five football fields. most of the other skiers were able to free themselves and rush to dig out the victims. police say the skiers performed cpr on the three men but could not save them. this pr...

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