delivery so it s unlikely that door had been changed since it was manufactured and delivered to the airline. they will figure out what the cause was, and they will make sure they know whether this was a very unique event to this one airplane, or if there was an issue with that kind of exit on other airplanes of similar types. can you put yourself in the cockpit of that flight and tell us this alaska airlines flight, and describe how the pilots handled this? it sounds as though the pilots and crew handled it perfectly. what is your sense of it? that s certainly the impression i get from what we know, what little we know. apparently there was a cockpit alert, as there should have been, when that exit was opened. the cockpit crew would have been aware of the pressure changing, and they would know they need to descend to an altitude where
sound, they can figure out what happened a plane s cockpit. the sounds are actually from alerts from cockpit recorders and alerts can indicate scenarios like an engine fire or sudden drop in altitude, some of the theories of what happened to the missing malaysian jet. we want to bring in paul ginsburg look with the rest, michael kay here and mary schiavo on the line. as you listened to that sound, we had first fuzzy kind. i want to play for viewers an enhanced version of that same cockpit alert. have a list been en to this one. so a couple things this indicates. one it indicates you really need an expert to listen to this audio because the raw stuff is just hard to discern. but once an expert like you listens to something like that, what kind of alert are we hearing there? we were listening to a cockpit area microphone, a