thank you, captain. thank you very much, we appreciate you. just glad you got it done. we appreciate you, mitchell, and of course our martin savidge. i want to pose this land theory to some of our experts now. pilot bill savage, to you first. i also want to bring in a former senior fbi profiler mariel toole to ask as well. first i want to go to bill. what about this land scenario? people are saying, we ve been talking about the southern whether it s in the southern indian ocean, but what about if it landed what about the northern arc? what if it landed on land? if the airplane didn t have a severe impact on the ground or in the water, elts would not have gone off. you wasn t have elts if it made a landing. mariel toole, in an investigation this large, who might make that call if the focus is over water or it s over land? well, that is an area of expertise that s outside of the
absolutely. yeah. thank you, captain, obvious. just glad we got it done. i want to pose this land theory to some of our experts. bill savage to you first and i want to bring in a former senior fbi profiler to ask as well. but first i want to go to bill. what about this land scenario? we have been talking about the southern, whether it s in the southern indian ocean but what about if it landed, what about the northern arc? what if it landed on land? if the airplane didn t have a severe impact on the ground or in the water, the elts would not have gone off. you wouldn t have elts if it made a landing. mary ellen o toole who might make that call if the focus is over water or if it s over land?
to meet the ocean going as fast as it would have been, would that cause the plane to break? would meeting the sea floor cause the plane to break? no. what we ve seen in past cases is as the airplane touches down in the water, it ll break apart. sully sullenberger s landing in the river was a very rare event where the airplane didn t physically break into a lot of smaller pieces. that was because it was under full control in daylight on calm water. and he was able to get the airplane very much slowed down. it was a nice piece of flying. but the for an airplane like a 777 to hit the water, it s got to break into a lot of small pieces. and then sink. most of those are going to sink to the floor. some will float. that s the debris field. the floating debris field that we re looking for right now. and, john, do you think as a result of this incident, there s going to be a rethinking of capabilities like being able to turn off the transponder
having power steering. it s a very easy, docile airplane to fly. and a lot of the big airplanes are that way because it s basically like power steering. now, the changing of altitudes and stuff that went on, i don t think it dropped as fast as it did in reality. but somebody that sat down in the seat and took the controls would change altitude like that playing a little bit trying to get the handle of it. but the point that i want to come back and defend the crew is, that if this airplane flew somewhere and landed, they would have needed the captain and the first officer to do that. because the people that took over in airplane didn t have the skills to really fly that airplane in the proper parameters that it needed to be flown in now boeing when they built this airplane they said look, if you fly within these parameters, this airplane is safe and you won t have any problem. if you fly outside these parameters, the airplane could come apart. this is true with all airplanes that you fl
who is a pilot here with over 30 years experience. how difficult is it to fly a 777 to disable these systems? what level of technical training would one need? well, first of all, to fly the 777, the controls in your hands in flying it is like having power steering. it s a very easy, docile airplane to fly. it s basically like power steering. the changing of altitudes and stuff that went on, i don t think that it dropped as fast as it did in reality. but somebody that sat down in the seat and took the controls would change altitude like that, trying to get the handle of it. but the point i want to come back and defend the crew is, if this airplane flew somewhere and landed, they would have needed the captain and the first officer to do that. because the people that took over this airplane didn t have the skills to really fly that