about the a320. that is a digital fly-by-wire system aircraft which, as opposed to having big control wheels, has side stick controls that are independent of one another, at the co-pilot station and at the pilot station. and it offers something called flight envelope protection. and simply what that means is that the pilot cannot put flight inputs or control inputs that would exceed the par ram meters that are preprogrammed into the computers. when the pilot controls the aircraft with these kind of joy sticks that they have it sends a an electronic relay to computers which interpret the pilot s control inputs. then if the software is programmed for those inputs it allows the aircraft to follow
this case. shortly thereafter controllers lost contact with the plane. the flight was scheduled to land at 8:30 a.m. local. here now security expert and former commercial pilot an no any roman. thanks for being with us. you are in that situation. a lot of turbulence. you ask air traffic control, can we deviate, increase altitude, whatever, to get around what s in front of us. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn t. you hit a situation where you may need to take evasive action. there is something with an airbus a-oh 320 that could be part of the way the particular pilots are getting feedback, if you will, from the equipment. that s true. there is a parameter called flight envelope protection which is basically a series of computers on the a-320. those computers naturally have software parameters. they interpret the pilot s flight control inputs. there have been cases where the
that they are on radar, it really helps them start to search there. what we know is that the airplane has not shown up anywhere yet and that s really as you said we can t speculate. that s all we know for sure right now. yeah. we do know that because of darkness, we believe, all of the aerial operations that are being conducted by both malaysia and singapore, singapore reached out and said we re offering our assistance and malaysia has taken it. the navy has launched ships. some ships are in the water but it s dark so they ve suspended the air operations and if there s inclement weather, that s a very wise thing to do at this time. we talked about something called flight envelope protection. you both had thoughts on this. explain what that is and how that may complicate matters here. well, the ah-320 series don t