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Disrupt radar altimeters -- instruments that bounce a radio d beam at the ground to give a hyperaccurate reading of height. pilots call the system essential when they need it most, in poor weather when it's hard to see the runway. >> this one instrument if it gets bad data, sends it to a collection of other systems, flight krols, auto notless, stick shake, i could go on and on. each of those, if they get bad information in, they are going to do bad things. >> reporter: in this simulator of a regional airliner, i saw what happened when a radar al tim ter fails. automatic warnings could stop and...

They had run out of options at that point. by doing a throttle at idle landing, long before i was inspector general, long before i was an aviation lawyer, i was a pilot. we used to do landings like this in competition teams. we would throttle back and try to land so slow and feather light right on the numbers. pilots like to do that because it gives the passenger a quiet, safe, wonderful landing. there might have been reasons they might have been going so slowly. once you get those warnings, you have to increase the throttle. the stick shake wore have been alarming to them. >> that means, warn...

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