aircraft. and procedurally this is what you would be doing. it still leaves open the question of no communication. particularly going through a heavily trafficked air corridor. yeah. mary, does this tell you anything about the pilot and the co-pilot s actions? yes. it does. it says they were fighting mightily but it also says one other thing. in some planes, we hadn t talked about this. in some planes there is an emergency descent mode aside from the pilot niinitiating it. if the plane senses that the pressure has fallen below what it should be, the plane itself. this will happen in the citation jet which isn t a 777. the plane will initiate a 90-degree turn and the plane itself, smart planes trying to keep us alive will initiate the descent with the 90-degree turn in descent. it says the pilots might have been fighting the troubles and the plane itself made the turn