Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130505:10:05:00
Rapidly as possible. >> as soon as they were over the water was when i suggested that they could commence their fuel dump. that was also the time, unknown to me, that the aircraft began experiencing a series of critical systems failures. >> the plane begins to lose altitude. >> within a minute, they had lost several critical systems. they lost the radio contact. and very soon after that, we lost the transponder. >> inside the cockpit, a nightmare scenario was unfolding. fire has breached the ceiling, dripping molten aluminum on to the flight deck. they lose control of the plane and plunge into...