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The Alaska Airlines incident shed light on safety issues at the company.

Expectation that the autopilot and autothrottle system would do something for them that the airplane was not designed to do and also a lack of monitoring. >> so what happened? well, one of the pilots unintentionally deactivated the automatic -- automatic air speed control. similar to cruise control in the car. the flight crew failed to closely monitor the plane's air speed and then they reacted too late when they attempted to abort landing. now the board said that fat weei -- fatigue likely contributed to do their poor performance. their mistakes with boeing's throttle system which were unadeq...

Surroundings and issues around the crash itself and what the ntsb is willing to reveal? >> yeah, thomas, this is very much about why the crew of asiana flight 214 failed to notice their air speed had dropped as they approached san francisco last july 6th. whether they truly understood the computer-assist the flight control systems and whether they simply didn't have the skills to land the plane manually. today the korean pilots union suggested boeing's auto throttle speed control system had a design flaw because it disengages when the pilot goes off auto pilot to fly manually, which it did. bo...

Ruled out electronics as the probable cause of that throttle opening, causing that sudden acceleration, the cars to speed out of control. this is what toyota originally diagnosed as the probable cause, that is those large floor mats that were causing the gas pedal to stick and also a sticky accelerator pedal. that appears to be what did cause those cars to speed up uncontrollably. now, nasa engineers did have unrestricted access to a lot of toyota's computer code for that electronic throttle system. they tested it, bombarded it with electromagnetic radiation, tried to recreate the conditions u...

Largest recalls. you remember the story about toyota recalling a lot of their cars because of brake problems and potential accidents. the "wall street journal" has a story that is proving it doesn't have to do with the cars, it might have to do with the drivers. ashley webster is here on that. >> reporter: imagine hitting the accelerator instead of hitting the brake and getting that wrong. apparently that may be the case. the u.s. government has been looking into this. no official reports will be released for months. toyota has maintained that it's not the electronic throttle system that's the...