some flares to get him to comply. do you think, colonel, that radio what we heard in terms of their communication made a big difference, at least the slight idea. maybe his motive that it wasn t a terrorist behind the controls? i. i listened to the air traffic control tapes and these controllers did a good job. trying to talk this guy down and reason him rather than threatening him and let him make the decision. i think they handled that rather well and assessed he wasn t a threat to civilian areas. if you listen to the conversation, he said, no, i don t want to go to mccord field. kro
voices. he didn t say exactly how much of it they had. ordinarily you get two hours, a little over two hours. but he absolutely would not say what they heard in the last ten minutes of the flight. so it appears they are on track. this isn t unusual. that s usually what happens with the cockpit voice recorder. they wait they analyze it they try to match it up with other data they know for example, air traffic control tapes, and only once they are able to do that and put a time line on it do they do a written transcript this what is they release. they don t usually release the voices. it now seems president hollande was right when he said they found the shell for the flight data recorder but not the inside not the part that actually holds the data. is that unusual for a black box essentially to be broken apart like that and how concerning is that do you think it s likely they ultimately find these small pieces that hold the data? well yes, it s unusual but the black box is actually i
that steve mentioned, a more insidious things of gradual loss of pressurization, often undetected. if you remember the payne stewart situation the apoxia that overcame crews and passengers on that corporate jet t. plane composite is built mostly of composite. the angle that obliterated probably everything but engine parts. so i don t believe we will get very much from that. they will piece together and hopefully pretty quickly between the data recorder as tom suggested has an enormous number of parameters of how that plane flew and the why piece would be the cockpit voice recorder. those plus the air traffic control tapes will paint a pretty good picture of what occurred. what will take over this investigation the german airliner that crashed in france that was departing from spain? yeah it s a french investigation. the way the rules here are that the crash occurs let me start that again the rules are that the country in which the
issued special rules about these vintage aircraft in 2009. saying they need very special care and you can t just put on any kind of part or do anything that you want, that you have to follow special aging aircraft protocol. so they re tricky and prevalent, but they do have an unfortunate higher incidents of crashes and problems. so mary, when you talk about this plane, and we re talking about obviously the ntsb will determine whether this was an intended landing, whether he was trying to land in a golf course, but we re talking about a very densely populated area, and to bring that plane down in a golf course, how challenging would that have been? it s very challenging. i think we now know from the air traffic control tapes, he did call an engine failure. and what happens is once if you have a single engine airplane and you have a failure, if you re a good pilot, you set
saying they need very special care and you can t just put on any kind of part or do anything that you want, that you have to follow special aging aircraft protocol. so they re tricky and prevalent, but they do have an unfortunate higher incidents of crashes and problems. so mary, when you talk about this plane, and we re talking about obviously the ntsb will determine whether this was an intended landing, whether he was trying to land in a golf course, but we re talking about a very densely populated area, and to bring that plane down in a golf course, how challenging would that have been? it s very challenging. i think we now know from the air traffic control tapes, he did call an engine failure. and what happens is once if you have a single engine airplane and you have a failure, if you re a good pilot, you set it up in the glide slope and you re trained to what the best