san francisco international airport. as you see there on the right of the screen, that s exclusive video in the crash. it will be up on the screen and bring in richard quest. you re with me? yes, i am,en deed. okay. richard information we did. we did. i want to go over some of it with you right now. let me go through this. the speed she said on the approach. this is what she said according to the cockpit voice recording. right? she said the speed on approach 137 knots and then went back and questioned about it. she said it was significantly below 137 knots. did you hear that? yes, i did. we know that it was considerably below that because if you look at other online resources, we know that the speed dropped considerably below 137 knots. but even that would have been on the low side. i mean, we are talking about
taking place a little too early. we ve got on the phone with us right now mary schiavo formerly of the u.s. department of aviation, so, mary, this is an incredible sight that we re seeing right here. so many eyewitness accounts of what may have happened as this boeing 777, this aviation expert we just talked to said this is one of the more safer planes out there and that this accident would happen. what s the first thing at hand for investigators to piece together what happened, how, and why? well, they will have a tremendous amount of information from two recordings from the cockpit voice recording and from the tower recording and also the air traffic controllers were supposed to have eyes on that plane. so, they will have a tremendous amount of information. but i think jim tillmon s right, i think for them to come in, san francisco is you know, there are winds and all that sort of thing but the 777 is a very heavy, reliable plane, you know, tens of thousands of planes land in san
people were apprehensive. it was a period of time after 40 years of being in the industry that i have never seen before or since. i see the plane. the engine fall down. two months after the attack, another plane is down. and at first, an act of terrorism is feared. we ve preliminarily put up the city on high alert. we have closed certain things down just to make sure we find out what this is all about. former inspector general of the department of transportation mary schiavo, followed the investigation. that was everybody s first thought. but there were a number of, you know, clues, and they came out really quickly that it wasn t because you had you know you had the cockpit voice recording. then when they found part of the plane was detached from the plane itself, we knew right away because pieces of the plane are not ever supposed to fall off.
are you ready. we are running to first class. i ve got to go. goodbye. he said, let s roll. that was the last he said. we know that the passengers made a rush on the cockpit and thwarted the hijackers. we know that because the cockpit voit voice recording is that they knew that there was a movement afoot in the back and their moments were numbered up front. someone heard on the cockpit voice recording, they re coming, they re coming. there was a tremendous thrashing around of dishes and carts, back and forth. this plane was at least 30 degrees if not more and rapidly went to 45 degrees, the other way and rocking back and forth. so my guess, there was a fight going on and the airplane was rolling to the right and to the left, to the right and to the left. we heard blood screams happening more or less. i don t believe it was the
he said, that s what we have to do. it wasn t long after that that. she heard him say, ask the men around him. are you ready. we are running to first class. i ve got to go. goodbye. he said, let s roll. that was the last he said. we know that the passengers made a rush on the cockpit and thwarted the hijackers. we know that because the cockpit voit voice recording is that they knew that there was a movement afoot in the back and their moments were numbered up front. someone heard on the cockpit voice recording, they re coming, they re coming. there was a tremendous thrashing around of dishes and carts, back and forth. this plane was at least 30 degrees if not more and rapidly went to 45 degrees, the other way and rocking back and forth. so my guess, there was a fight going on and the airplane was