every co-pilot in the air by suggesting that the first officer didn t have what it could take to make those maneuvers. get out of here. he was perfectly qualified to fly that airplane. it sounds like what miles o brian said earlier today. it s understandable, because you re at the top in control of the plane. when something goes wrong, they don t blame the producers, they blame us. so geoff, 122 pieces of debris, is this the break we ve been waiting for? they spent the whole previous search day looking for this very specific debris, and have been unable to find it. we just don t know. hopefully it will turn out to be what we re looking for. but like i said before, every time we search for something and don t find it, that s information, too. it tells us where the debris isn t.
you level off. you apparently have figured out it s not that severe and you get it on automatic pilot or you put it on automatic pilot and you re overcome by smoke or lack of oxygen. you pass out, passengers pass out. airplane has plenty of fuel, on a predetermined course and it will now fly for hours until it runs out of fuel. so that s the scenario. we don t know if it really happened that way, but many speculate it could have. miles o brian, though, the plane did make several turns. so would that be possible under an autopilot scenario? that is highly unlikely. what that pilot would have done is what marty and his friend, mitchell, did in the simulator. they would turn around, do a 180, head back to land, get back
to connect. and les abend, we talked to miles o brian in the 8:00, he suggested that partial ping could have been from an electrical surge or even the plane hitting the water, which would really help investigators zero in on an area to search. i contemplated that for a little bit. what i thought it might be was the fact that the last engine shut down or flamed out, because of fuel exhaustion, which would have this airplane is designed to deploy a ram air turbine, which operates one system of hydraulics, the other of electrics. that deploys that automatically, which would probably not be a priority for that one last electrical system and that would shut off the communication to the satellite one less time. still could give a time frame for knowing when the last engine went out. it s possible, but it s speculation on my part.
the plane is designed to be level and controlled and to make a slow descent and we are doing that. now, again, it s a simulator, so of course the engines, it s possible one would flame out after the other. mitchell believes that one engine would compensate automatically for that, right? yeah. we have a compensator in this aircraft, the 777. so yes. in an event of an emergency, i m not sure if you had electrical power if that would happen. but any airplane, big or small, most of the time it s going to be designed to be stable. we re still descending and still level. it s possible that you could wing over and die. miles, what is so the thing about this is that no matter what theory you look at, that investigators are looking at, there are holes in each one. there are questions that can be raised that don t make it