report an issue, their number one responsibility is to try to navigate out of it without potentially risking or losing the lives of all their passengers and themselves. that s correct and the technology you spoke about earlier, this is what a glasscockglass cockpit looks like, that makes to the infrared rather easy to look at. there were 37 of these instruments in the old days in every cockpit and one of these that you can pull-up any data you need in an instant. so the glasscock pit both in the a-320 and the 727s, that makes it easier for the captain to pull-up to the data. and again the first officer is going to if there s an advanced warning they re going to call in it won t have to be the pilot in charge, quite often it will be the first officer, we have a situation here.
call air traffic control and report an issue their number one responsibility is to try to navigate out of it without potentially risking or losing the lives of all the passengers and themselves, is that correct? absolutely. and the technology, you spoke about earlier, this is what a glass cockpit looks like, that s makes the information that the pilot needs rather easy to look back. this is an example of the older things. there were 37 of these in the old days in every cockpit and one of these that you can pull-up any data you need in an instant. so the glasscock pit, both in the a-320 and in the 737s that are very common, that makes it easier for the captain to pull-up the data. and again, the first officer if there s an advanced warning, they won t have to be the pilot in charge, quite often it will be the first offer, which we have a situation here. we look forward to getting
ability to pick it up at a great distance. i understand you also brought some models along of something called the fly by wire cockpit and a touch screen on the 777, which is something new for an airplane. show me what you mean. right. this is a fly-by wire or glasscock pit. the 777 is the first plane to use it in commercial carriers, airplanes that carry passengers. it s been in some of the smaller planes sooner. but this is the first production model carrier that ever used flyby wire. you touch the screen and get everything you need to see. in the old version, you had 32 of these instruments at least across the cockpit. you had to monitor them all at the same time. so it makes it easier to have one screen dial up what you need. it makes it much easier. thank you so much for bringing along the visuals. it s so helpful. hopefully they ll be able to
important because from the outside, you see this catastrophic fire, you see all this billowing smoke, yet we have all these survivors. well, they re going to want to know how the folks got out in such a timely manner before the fire erupted in the aircraft. all of that is taking place right now, simultaneous cvr and fdr data being previewed and pumped back to the team, so that that will give them some idea if there is in fact a mechanical problem, they can start focusing on that as well. cvr, fdr, cockpit voice recorder, flight data recorder, not black boxes. the black boxes are orange. you just alluded to some perishable evidence. what would be the perishable evidence you re talking about? well, when we look at the cockpit, you definitely want to try and capture as many of the instrument readings. this is an electronic cockpit, all glasscock pit. you have television screens. but the screw carries personal items there, so you want to see what kind of paperwork they were
seven miles away that didn t go answered. so we don t know what the flight crew was trying to communicate at that point. there was certainly no may day emergency, i need to is that customary. things are hitting the fan really quickly in the cockpit, is that something that yeah. i mean, the three rules of flying are aviate, communicate, navigate. and it is to fly the plane and then if there is something wrong, communicate what the problem is. so the flight crew would have been expected to say, i have a problem here, i need to do a missed approach or go around or try it again or something else. after that plane came to a halt, what were the first steps likely taken by the flight crew? well, you can see he was on the radio, probably, you know, there is no checklist for this kind of a situation where, you know, your engines are off the plane, your landing gear is part. the smartest thing to do is make sure emergency personnel were rolling, which apparently he did, and then shut