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Lay terms, tell me on what equipment am i relying if i'm the captain that tells me where to land the aircraft? >> all right. the pilot's looking outside, because this is a visual approach. he's looking at the runway, and he can see the touchdown zone of the runway. that's the part that we've all seen as passengers or pilots. that's the part where all the skid marks are, about 1,100 feet down the runway. now, that's the aiming point. that's where he wants to touch down. and he's got to adjust the air speed of the aircraft to be at what's called v-ref. so he's looking at the air speed indicator,...

It was simply unstabilized. and a go-around should have been, in fact is mandated to be required in order to avoid an accident. >> put me in that cockpit and in lay terms, tell me on what equipment am i relying if i'm the captain that tells me where to land the aircraft? >> all right. the pilot's looking outside, because this is a visual approach. he's looking at the runway, and he can see the touchdown zone of the runway. that's the part that we've all seen as passengers or pilots. that's the part where all the skid marks are, about 1,100 feet down the runway. now, that's the aiming point. th...

Proper dissent rate. the airplane configured for plann landing. and this airplane, for most of that, wasn't any of those things. it was at the improper speed, slow at points, right before the crash, it was too high, too slow, it was simply unstabilized, and a go-around should have been, in fact, as mandated to be required to avoid an accident. >> put me in that cockpit and in lay terms, tell me on what equipment if i'm relaying, if i'm the captain, that tells me where to land the aircraft? >> all right. the pilot's looking outside, because this is a visual approach. he's looking at the runway,...

Indicator, he's set in the speed he's supposed to be flying, 137 knots, for that weight. and what he's doing is looking at his vertical speed and his glide path, so that the sight picture that he sees is going to put him down in the touchdown zone. >> so what's -- i'm sorry, go ahead. >> what's happened in this airplane is he was all over the place. he was too high on that visual glide path, he was too low at some points, he was too fast, initially, and then he got slow. when the airplane got slow, the first thing that should have happened is the man in the right seat, the first officer or, i ...