hard for me to give explanation why it started descending. i cannot answer the question at this point. we really have to find out what the reasons are and we need the black box for those, need the information from the location and then we have to find out together with the authorities, the french the spanish, and especially the german authorities and we will do those and quickly. we will have to find out whether the pilot knew what he was doing or not. we cannot speculate. those are the data we had through the radio, but right now only few hours after the accident we don t have any further data that we can use.
let s see. it is too early, we are speculating. we have a successful airplane and more than 9,000 of this model in this world and it has a fantastic record. in the history as well as products we have to find out what happened as fast as possible, but properly. we have a question. what kind of accident if it took eight minutes for the airplane to descend? has the pilot had control over the airplane? please forgive me i cannot give you answer to that because there are many reasons why this could be this way. whether he was aware of it or not, it is speculation and it is
system simply meaning the joy sticks that the pilots use to control the aircraft are not directly linked to the aircraft flight surfaces on the wings and tails. simply what that means is the control stick is electronically linked to a series of flight computers that interpret pilot inputs. then if those inputs fall within the parameters programmed into the computers, it allows the pilots to in fact obey that command. in other words, the aircraft will follow the pilot s command. however, we have something very interesting developing here. it appears the debris field as reported earlier is approximately five miles in diameter. and fly by wire system was primarily developed to prevent structural failure of the aircraft as a result of kind of
when reviewing the tape you can see the pilot is attempting to raise the nose power the aircraft up to climb, but aircraft systems, those computers overrode the pilots signals, according to the information that has been reported. there is another incident in which a strong cross wind landing was being attempted. the wind was approximately 45 knots, direct cross wind across a runway. an a320 aircraft was attempting to land, and the aircraft almost went off the runway during touchdown phase. it was later determined that the programmed flight computer parameters didn t allow the type of pilot inputs that were used by the pilots at the time the aircraft was attempting to land, and that was subsequently corrected. so although the fly by wire
previous conversation with bill in terms of the mantra the pilots have. it s about navigate and communicate. when the pilots sense there would be an emergency, what they have to do is get the aircraft under a condition where they can then start looking at a navigational airfield. if they are traveling at 400 knots and have an emergency, the pilot wants to convert speed to height. they will get it into a glide profile. i m not sure of the speed for the glide on the a320. they are at cruising height cruising speed, so they should be in good shape at the time it happens. they will be looking to climb. i was speaking with christopher dickey. nice is about 50 nautical miles away. that said, the pilots will have to start taking into account