Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140313:04:07:00
Misunderstanding and a plane crash. the tube was not blocked by a piece of ice or a piece of tape, the other one that year was an insect nest covering up the pitot tube, and nobody noticed it. and it being blocked, brought that plane down. speed sensors, the speed sensor systems including those fragile looking tubes you can see when you walk up to any commercial jet on the tarmac, that system is known to have caused at least three commercial airlines to come down, all fatal crashes. sometimes the blame is something much less gadgety. in 1988 this aloha airlines 737 miraculously was landed by i...