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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150324:13:09:00

what caused this, but this is an idea of the rugged nature of the french alps around the area where the plane has been lost. how difficult it must be for these 200-plus officials, firefighters, first responders et cetera that bill was telling us about, how they have been dispatched from paris to this area. bill, this is a remote area of the alps. yes it really is. the other interesting thing is there are several airports nearby. rather large airports like nice and marseille and smaller ones that service ski resorts, so it is possible that the pilot was desperately looking for a safe place to land. clearly, it was a controlled descent, if we are to believe the idea that it went down 3,000 to 4,000 feet a minute that is a normal approach to an airport. but at some point, he simply ran

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150324:13:14:00

or not. let s say there is a malfunction either manmade or just the computers just malfunction. is it not possible for the pilot and the co-pilot to take that plane back from all this computerized system that runs and flies the plane? is there not a manual override for the pilots to be able to take control of that plane regardless of what the instruments and the computer are or not doing? well, this is the brave new world that we re entering as we use more and more computerization in an age when people are hacking and otherwise with the system. the older aircraft, the boeing aircraft in general use hydraulics. so even though you may have an auto pilot, if it malfunctions you can disengage that auto pilot and regain manual control.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150324:13:00:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150324:13:00:00
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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150324:14:03:00

pilot or co-pilot and anybody on ground control either in germany or france or spain. this is the press conference that is just beginning. we are going to get our translator on board on this so that we can bring you this. it is a press conference by officials germanwings speaking. and the french president, francois hollande says probably no french citizens on board this flight. reporter: well that s right. but we know the majority of people aboard the flight were german as well as spanish. german people by the way, during this time of year do travel to barcelona for vacation. this was a budget airline. it is coming back on a tuesday, which indicates probably was a long weekend or a nice holiday for these people these families, that they were experiencing in barcelona to get away from the cold. there s a lot of from dusseldorf is a common trek to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150324:14:32:00

marseilles or nice or in italy or switzerland and they didn t do that. exactly. that s what s lending to the theory that tom put out there that they were probably somehow incapacitated, but maybe they were confused. maybe there was some sort of toxin in the air that would confuse them because why would you not make attempt to make a quick radio call over 8 minutes and eventually put in a 7700 emergency code. so they were somewhat conscious, yet there s no evidence to point to them looking for another airport. you really needed air traffic control in on this one because they could have given them an immediate steer to say nice which was an excellent choice and near the coast. i am wondering if they re on automatic pilot, where would the automatic pilot be taking them?

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