CNN CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin December 29, 2014 19:54:00
Control. captain always has the ability to declare an emergency and do whatever he needs to do to maintain safety of flight. >> okay. so spencer tweeted, i could figure it stalling. but why could this plane not just steer down? do you think the engine could have been hit by something? >> well you know in a thunderstorm if they entered a thunderstorm the ingestion of precipitation and particularly hail may have damaged the engines, and caused the power interruption which would then you know necessitate a great deal of activity in the cockpit trying to restore their power. but, you know, until w...