call acknowledged, whatever the call sign was, request your intentions. that s when the pilots will say intentions diversion, nice or wherever it is. then they will alert the destination airfield and then they will clear the circuit. they will tell all of the jets in the area to clear occupantut of the way. i want to go back to jay who is an experienced pilot. jay, talk to me about what is going on. we were seeing the weather, now you re seeing the actual conditions on this from france 24 our colleagues there. talk to me about when there is an emergency on board and you re dealing with it what does this tell you as far as the conditions, the visibility? well we don t really know. again. again, we don t know what kind of a profile they were flying
another airport. what are the airports to deal with this. that 10 or 12 minute period different from in the air france they didn t know. you are spot on with that point that the kind of conflicting pieces of information we have at the moment is the fact that emergency communication from the transponder, which has to be inputted by a member of the crew was 7770. that s the only piece of information at the moment which differs from air france 447 piece. good point. and in fact civil aviation authority in france is underscoring the fact there was no verbal may day call. i think that s obviously something they re focusing on now, just as we are, because it seems extremely unusual, no matter how hard the pilot and co-pilot were fighting to control the airplane. 12 minutes.
automatic pilot, that i m not going to say that is the explanation, but that is an ex-an place. an explanation how we would not have a bunch of stuff. it is just a huge, huge ocean out there full of junk and maybe the debris s out there, we just haven t found it. when you look at the salvaging or whatever you bring up, what s we know the black box is the priority, hopefully that would tell us what the heck happened, what then? do you leave it rest? the black boxes? no, no the black boxes i m assuming you bring up. naught aside. everything else? well, certainly, a very top priority are human remainsism mean, these families have suffered immeasurably and so human remains and the respectful treatment and disposition of those will be a very high priority. as to whether you cut this plane
radar was data was collected over an hour and 20 minutes. we don t know the rate of descent. and also the turn precipitated the descent, according to the depiction we have. in other words, they made the turn first and it seems look a relatively slow turn if it took them two minutes. that said, we want to give you what might have been a scenario in which something like that could happen, and the way i said it to mitchell is that it is a dramatic decompression. the explosive bam, maybe a bulkhead has given away, maybe an explosive device in the back of the aircraft, get us down, get us turning. and so the plane immediately, we have taken it off of automatic pilot, it is the automatic response of a pilot. you could take it down with the auto pilot, but more buttons, more things to be dealt with. emergency masks would have been put on. we can t demonstrate that to you. we would have been
doing that the alarms are going off and saying that you are descending fast. you want to do get down fast, because you want to open up the windows to get rid of some of the smoke by opening up a window. and then i would have a fire extinguisher in the kcargo hold to suppress the fire, and no word that it would work to put out the fire, and also, we would have oxygen masks, which we cannot deploy, but that is what would be going on. and yes. navigate and then communicate. yes. and radioing is the last thing, because you have seconds to come back to the ground and you want to alert the airport, we have turned and on the way to the ground with an emergency, and the scenario progresses with the plane stabilizing again, and the plane going on automatic pilot,