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Like this it truly is troubling. loss of engine and recuperating from it that is a basic part of training. especially for pilots here in the united states. the plane we do know could have flown with one engine. but as you know his fatal mistake, at one point the plane had zero engine power. >> i guess the bottom-line question is the pilot in this particular case it's obviously very frightening, but the report reveals that the captain may not have been skilled enough to handle the problem that this plane was experiencing. that's pretty shocking. >> it is. i mean not only did he make this mistak...

By having the autopilot on for a period of time when the accident initially happened they had already connected the autopilot as part of their procedure. once the engine failure occurred then they disconnected the autopilot. now they have that. they've identified the wrong engine and now the air speed is slowing down to the point where the airplane does what we call an aerodynamic stall. and with no power, it's lucky, with the video that you're seeing that buildings weren't hit as opposed to the aqueduct that you see. >> and then the cab careens around the corner and they were okay other than ...