that aircraft, and they were unable to rectify the fault, and unable to protect those on board. technical faults followed by pilot error. the flight control computer appears to be key. we understand that there was a cracking of a solder joint, and there were four alerts that went off, four master cautions, which is alarms trying to alert prielts priel pilots in the plane. what they tried to do, according to that report is to reset the computer, but then there was an electrical fault. so that disengaged the auto pilot. all of a sudden, at 32,000 feet or higher than that as they had asked to go higher, all of a sudden they are in manual mode, and that s where they say they were unable to control the plane. at 32,000 feet, they asked to go
prevent recurrence. for example, on this transcript you hear the words, terrain, pull up. that is issued by a system called a terrain awareness warning system. the first one was established by honeywell known as enhanced ground proximity warning system. the airplane particularly this airplane has automated functions preventing the pilot from stalling the plane. if this system senses approaching terrain and impending crash, it would be relatively easy to bring in the flight control computer basically the auto pilot, to pull up the nose of the airplane to prevent impact with the terrain. that s a relatively easy solution. another is to have ground people interact with the flight control system on the plane, just like they do with drones very similar to that to monitor the flight path and make sure it conforms to the authorized flight path. if it exceeds that by a certain value, they come in. let me ask you one final question. you worked on the 9/11
it can hit the automatic pilot. it will take you right to where your destination is, right? that is all correct. and i don t want to discount anything yet because we don t have any proof to the contrary. but the pilot doesn t need the flight control computer to fly. so all of this stuff about having to change way points and reprogramming, that is nice, not necessary. it is not necessary, but information we have was telling us it was altered on the computer. so that means it was done by somebody who has aviation knowledge, right? absolutely, not just aviation knowledge, but knowledge of that airplane. now, there is one point here i need to clarify. i said this yesterday. the elts go off under normal circumstances. but the pilot can disable the one that is in the tail with the switch in the overhead panel above him. because frequently pilots land hard and don t want to set off the beacon. the ones in the back have to be manually turned on by the flight attendants when you ditch at
they re showing. so i don t know if there s something i m missing. david gallo i think that also gets to the point you raiej÷5(p% earlier. andy pastor from the wall street journal, i want to ask you in terms of your reporting it was a manual change of direction, how can they know it was manually done? because the system that sends up some data from the aircraft to a satellite was not switched off at that point. it took them maybe between 14 and 20 minutes or something around that time, whoever was doing this, to make the transponder stop working and then disconnect the satellite communication system. and in that period of time is when the course change occurred. and the data that was relayed up to the satellite, according to the folks we ve talked, to indicates that this was a manually a manual direction to the flight control computer. i just want to also maybe answer one of your question why are they searching in the indian ocean more than 320,000 square miles.
and the data that was relayed up to the satellite, according to the folks we talked, to indicates this was a manually a manual direction to the flight control computer. i want to answer maybe your other question, why are they searching in the indian ocean more than 3,000 square miles. the last signal that was received from the aircraft to the satellite was over the indian ocean. so they re starting their search based on the assumption that something happened from that point of view. we should be very aware that whoever was doing this was a very had some sophisticated knowledge of aircraft and aircraft electronics, because to disable these systems in a series of efforts, not at the same time, is not as easy and most pilots would not know precisely to do to disable them. once again, it indicates it s not likely to be some catastrophic event. it s just too suspicious for that. let me bring in ron brown,