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Land slower. and you'll come down at a speed that would be a little above the stall speed. it's a difficult thing to do when the sea state is high. i -- you know, if you're i missing -- coming in without fuel, you would want to come in faster and then let up and come in like the sully landing. in very high seas, it would be difficult. >> rob mccallum and miles o'brien, thanks. why are malaysian officials now telling families to hold out hope for a miracle? plus, president obama is taking action, he says, to ensure equal salaries for women. dear sun,

Experienced pilots come in so slow, dangerously slow at stall speed, and right up to san francisco international airport a an approach that requires quite a bit of attention as you come in here, alex. >> tom, let me ask you because i think a lot of people are under the impression that in situations like this especially with landings and take-offs, the airplane's on-board computer systems kick in at a certain point if you are in danger and that did not seem to be the case with this flight. do we know why there wasn't sort of an automatic response to the plane flying too low and too slow? >> the...

Deborah hersman had said. the stick shaker, i can tell you, i've been in the simulators and i have simulated the stick shaker and it is brutal. this is a very, very aggressive noisy -- sounds like a rattlesnake. >> richard quest? richard quest, i want to go through a few points and have you respond to them. >> right. >> to make it as clear and concise to the viewer as possible. okay. so there's two different recordings. there is the cockpit voice recorder with two hours of information. excuse me. there's the flight data recorder which she said had 24 hours of information. >> correct. >> record...

It is possible. but only depending on what their speed was when they're -- i mean, if they were just under the approach speed, then yes, of course, it's possible. push it forward, the engines -- takes a few second, whatever for them to spool forward but if they're significantly below the speed, no -- i mean, only had seconds to go, and to use a little phrase, there is no way to push it all the way forward and go to power and go around is, takeoff, go around, you could push it all the way forward but by that stage, you have a sink rate that's too fast. you have -- the aircraft has stalled so th...

San francisco international airport. as you see there on the right of the screen, that's exclusive video in the crash. it will be up on the screen and bring in richard quest. you're with me? >> yes, i am,en deed. >> okay. richard -- >> information -- >> we did. we did. i want to go over some of it with you right now. let me go through this. the speed she said on the approach. this is what she said according to the cockpit voice recording. right? she said the speed on approach 137 knots and then went back and questioned about it. she said it was significantly below 137 knots. did you hear that?...