it could be days weeks, possibly even months before we learn answers to essential questions about flight 8501 and some may never be answered at all. we re following the conversation on twitter. we re here to answer at least some of your questions with a couple of our guests who are experts here contributing editor to flying magazine les abend and also with us patrick smith commercial airline pilot and air travel columnist. les, welcome back patrick thanks for joining us. i ll start with you, patrick. we have a question why didn t the pilot just turn around and head back to the airport until the weather was clean? well it s very unusual for a crew and you say the pilot. i just want to throw something in here. we hear this in the media over and over. it s the pilots. there are always two fully qualified pilots in the cockpit. i m a co-pilot.
calls from the administration in the coming days we should expect that it will happen in the wake of this as well. i think you can almost be certain. aaron mcpike, thank you very much. sflimplgt we re joined by les, a triple-7 captain and a contributing editor of flying magazine and we ll bring in former pilot alan rosensh ein from sussex england. you ve flown the same flight path that 8501 has flown, so what can you tell bus that particular airspace? well, what we re talking about here is the wet at this time of year there can be a lot of well thunderstorms and vertical activities as we call it. those are predominantly associated with turbulence icing, and hail. now, the problem about the sort of thunderstorms you get in the
pressing issue and the government here is still failing to do it adequately, don. nic robertson in kuala lumpur. thank you very much, nic. back to perth with geoffrey thomas, and robert the editor of flying magazine. richard quest is back with me of course back with me here in new york. geoffrey, to you first, you see some parallels between what is happening right now with mh-370 and the successful search for air france 447. explain that to us. yes, indeed, don. i mean with the search for 447, when they finally triangulated where they believed the wreckage was, they put down a bluefin-21 to have a look. it took them actually eight days, even though they knew virtually precisely where the airplane was, it still took them eight days to find it. the wreckage on the bottom was confined to a very small area,
families in china is a very pressing issue and the government. he is still failing to do it adequately, don. nic robertson in kuala lumpur. thank you very much. back to perth with geoffry thomas, and robert the editor of flying magazine. richard quest is back with me here in new york. geoffry, to you first, you see some parallels between what is happening with mh-370 and the successful search for air france 447. explain that to us. yes, indeed, don. with the search for 447, when they finally triangulated where they believed the wreckage was, they put down a bluefin-21 to have a look. it took them actually eight days, even though they knew virtually precisely where the plane was, it still took them eight days to find it. the wreckage on the bottom was confined to a small area, as
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