CNN The Situation Room March 26, 2015 21:14:00
Miles was saying about why did he choose that particular mode of descent. i have been wondering whether this wasn't premeditated because he would have known that he couldn't put the plane in a dive because the airbus has sort of flight envelope protection system the flight management system the computers which prevent him from -- it's there to prevent pilots from overcorrecting and taking extreme control actions to keep the plane within as it were the safety envelope. he would have known that the only way he could have done that would have been to have disconnected the flight management system...
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