been released and at this point the families deserve to hear this. mary, let me bring you in, let me play devil s advocate. as investigations are going on, you don t want to release information in drips and drabs, tech niblgly the malaysians did do that. we don t want to give out the transcript. why not? is there a good reason not to give out the transcript? no, and in fact prior to the problem, i think the families are probably used to investigations that they read about in other countries. for example, in other countries, the oral tapes plus the transcripts are released right away, the cockpit voice recording is not. but air traffic control tapes are, and people are used to seeing the transcript. last week, the malaysian government said, we re not going to release them, because it s secret, it s going to be considered secret, they dribble out the information and it makes one wonder, why release this now? what purpose is it serving the
were going on or any information from the flight data or the voice recorder. you ve heard that suspicion as well. that s right. that the recorders may never be found. and then if they are, the voice recorder part of the recorders is probably going to be written over and there will be no cockpit voice recording that occurred at the time of the initial turning off the transponders and the acars stopping the broadcast and the plane making the left turn, then other left turns, all of that will be lost from the voice recorder. these pilot suicides in the past, it was determined by the voices, the data recorder will tell you the plane went up, down, sideways, left, right, but it won t tell you why or who was at the controls. the voice recorder will reveal that information and if it s written over, it s gone. if they never find this flight data recorder or the voice recorder, we may never know, william, what happened specifically, right? well, right. the investigator that we talked to i
it was on final approach. john yang is live in san francisco. john, that is the big mystery how they ignored all the signals. why was it going at that slow speed? reporter: exactly, andrea. they have talk to 2 of the 4 pilots who were on-board that flight yesterday. yesterday and now today talk to the other two, including the pilot who was actually in control of the plane. one thing they want to find out is talk about with a was going on in the cockpit. they heard the cockpit voice recording but also get a sense of the dynamics among the crew, whether they were working together, communicating with each other. perhaps one assumed the other was monitoring the speed and watching everything during landing. we know that one of them, the pilot who was actually in control, was in training on the boeing 777, just learning to familiarize himself with this in flight. he had about 43 hours on the plane. it was his ninth trip. his first landing in a 777 at
excuse me, this is wrong. this is wrong. but that wasn t occurring. everything was occurring normally, so up to that point there s no indication of engine problems, flat problems, control problems. you know, no tricky winds updrafts, down drafts, nothing. that s a very important piece of data. i think jim probably feels the same way. you mentioned a tool that was about challenging. what is it called? it s called crew resource management, and the united states has really pioneered it. i m sure jim has been more than trained in it and does it well, but what that means is that the pilot not flying, especially, is supposed to challenge the pilot flying. if there s anything at all wrong. they re supposed to work as a team that challenges each other to do the best things at all times, and we ll want to listen when the ntsb puts out the full cockpit voice recording. if they even did that when they were low and slow. seven seconds out, they should have done it. let s pick it back up. let
department of transportation, aviation lawyer, an expert in this type of stuff. on the tape, we hear, oh, my god, oh, my god. may be the best explanation for how people survived this kind of crash, but for investigators like you in the ntsb, the question is why did it happen? how could it have been avoided? we take a look here, mary. the first thing we re going to see the is the approach. we re going to stop it on the approach because i want you to talk to me about what we call the attitude of the aircraft. when you look, what do you see here? is when you look, you can see something is going wrong. the plane is pointed up this way. at this point, you would expect to see more of this. we learned from the cockpit voice recording and the data flight recording that something called the stick shaker would be going off in just another second, which means you ve got to get some air speed. you re in danger of losing the plane. you can see it right here that from the attitude of the plane, it