accelerating at 280 miles an hour and if that nose goes full forward i don t care if you re at 3,000, 5,000, 10,000, you don t have if this tail plane, this horizontal stabilizer is what s driving that nose forward and if it gets to a limit that it s impossible, pilots can t pull it out. bill: if you re a pilot facing the scenario you re describing is the software telling the pilot something they have not seen before and they don t know how to react or is it a question of time in saving the flight? first of all it should have been in the pilot s manual. should have been in the simulator and third, during your check ride it should have been demonstrated as an emergency along with other emergencies that you go to complete your training. sandra: a manual did go out after the lion air crash. it didn t prior to that. a manual was issued. additional training was not. do you think that additional
transportation safety board collects pieces of the plane. they have identified and recovered portions of the accident aircraft tail. that s of interest to the ntsb because of a series of know toes shot of the plane just before the crash. this one shows the tail intact. the second shows a portion of the tail, a horizontal stabilizer trim tab, partially torn off. a third one shows it completely gone. without it, experts say the pilot could lose control of the plane. even though we recovered a component, we don t know if it s related to this aircraft or that that s what it is. i m running this way. one of those injured on the ground, commercial pilot noah jern stead says in this you-tube video, he can see himself trying to runaway from the impact area. i look up and i m sitting there like, okay, i m going to die. i m going to run. i m going to give it all i got. he says he s lucky his injuries weren t more serious.