staffer or flight attendants. so the building of the team, the crew resource management process. it s formalized. pilots are trained in it. it facilitates open communication. if someone is about to do something with the airplane, the other pilot doesn t feel kfbl. you have an obligation to bring it up. whether you are the first officer or the captain. this facilitates communication. it makes for better decisions. now the question that was brought up and rightfully so by the ntsb and the asiana accident was that, i guess i will call it innuendo or a minimal advice that a problem was developing and both the instructor pilot and the captain under training didn t take heed of it.
welcome back, everyone, breaking news here on cnn, some of the families of the passengers on flight 370 released a list of 26 questions they want malaysian officials to answer. this, as frustrations boiled over in beijing as families accuse those officials of being bloody liars. i want to bring in my team of experts now to talk about this. you know, mary today, some of the families released a list of questions that they sent to malaysian authorities, including requesting the log book, air traffic control, and personal information from inmarsat. why do the authorities want those specifics, do you think? well, because that is what families after accidents do, they pore over everything and become experts. say they want to pull up the asiana accident, they could go on the ntsb website and they
say they want to pull up the asiana accident, the one in san francisco, they could go on the ntsb website and they would find this kind of detail released this the public docket. twhan see the rest of the world getting treated one way and theirs treated another. they feel this is a reason they haven t been given this information. every crash is like this. families want every detail and piece of information and they become powerful allies. if this is going to be change for safety a they are the ones that can do it. they are very helpful. arthur, you work with these cases. you are an attorney. many of these questions are highly technical ones about the emergency locater transmitter, the black boxes. do families just want to know as many details as they possibly can, as mary said, and how will this information help them? i think these families are trying to make sense of seeming
again. investigators addressed the disappearance from multiple angle, releasing multiple information about the airline that crashed in san francisco. that plane was also a 7777. it was making a normal approach in good weather, the airplane hit the ground quite hard and there were three fatale ties as a result of it. other than the type of aircraft, there s not a correlation between the asiana accident and malaysia flight 370. as the mystery deepens, relatives of the passengers are becoming more distressed. payne here is wearing thin. hundreds of family members and the passengers have been holed up in the hotel behind me. about 100 airline staffers have arrived to assist the families
certain regions of the world having pilots who are too deferential to the lead pilot and that has been documented as a problem in the cockpit on certain airports. something that certain airlines have worked actively to address. don t know what the malaysia airlines is on this particular score but is that something that would be considered? well, that was first documented while i was chairman of the ntsb with the flight accident in guam. and of course, we saw discussion of that again with the asiana accident in san francisco. but it is too early to know. one of the things we do know is that all of these aircraft now are highly automated. there are very few individuals left who have both the automation training and good stick and rudder skills. so many times when you have an