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Really could have climbed out of there in time. it's a question many my mind how they used the last seconds. >> okay. stand by. roll the rest of it. let's go. >> the sound of the stick shaker occurs approximately four seconds prior to impact. >> pause it, please. mary. >> four seconds before impact with the stick shaker, there is vilgts they can do, but that stick shaker would have startled them. it literally vibrates and shakes, but at four seconds, as jim just mentioned, there isn't even time to get the power up at full speed to push it in and really get all the power that you need, and they...

Not stay on top of the air speed and it deteriorated leading to disaster, such as the flight from rio to paris on air france. the flight up in buffalo. that air speed has to be monitored closely. to see it deteriorating that close to a landing is very troubling. that's why the black boxes are so very important to provide that data. >> when you heard her say, when she mentioned the knots, you said, mmm. the stick shaker another sigh because? >> the fact that the stick shaker activated is a very important clue. that means that the air speed had continued to deteriorate. they hadn't increased it....

antigadhafi brigades. human rights watch is calling on the libyan national council to investigate this. conditions in syria are getting too dangerous for the u.s. ambassador. the state department has pulled ambassador robert ford out of syria citing what it calls credible threats against his personal safety. u.s. officials say an armed pro-government mob attack ford an some colleagues in an embassy convoy last month. ford has been an outspoken critic of the syrian government's violent crack dourn on protesters. u.s. officials say they don't know when it will be safe for ford to ret...

Simulator to use the emergency stick pusher that warned of an imminent stall. >> the captain would have been a candidate for remedial training but colgan did not have a program for pilots who demonstrated weakness. >> for his days to his rise to a pilot at colgan, they say the aviation system failed to hold back an aviator who didn't have the right stuff. >> the pilot needed a good day to pass a test. i liken it to a student who gets passed from grade to grade and upon graduation hasn't mastered the material. >> the ntsb found renslow and co-pilot were not well rested and engaged in conversati...

You that you hear about the conclusions about what went wrong in this crash. >> well, no. and also the ntsb at their prior hearing, i was at the fact-finding hearings on this accident. it was clear they were headed in this direction. and they do find fault with the pilots in about 3 out of 4 times in crashes. however, there were some additional factors in that the manua manuals, the colgan flight manuals had mistakes in them, and the pilots actually hadn't had hands-on training, they had never felt a stick pusher before, that was pretty shocking. the first time they felt it they had 50 lives a...