the plane would land short of the runway. in the end of the new s conference they spoke about the weather conditions, saying it was all clear at the time of the crash, and the pilots were using visual flight rules when landing. can you describe that to us a little more? sure, in poor weather conditions, they will use autopoilt and the computer flies the airplane down to minimums and where we will break out of the clouds and so the runway and the pilot turns the autopilot off and land manually. on visual days like this, we like to fly because we don t depend on the computers. it is fairly normal for the pilot to be hand flying and