grab says. we haven t confirmed it. climbing at 36,000 feet that s why experts are thinking that the plane was climbing because it was at 32,000 when the pilot made the request to go to 38. 105 miles per hour it s not very fast. not fast enough to sustain flight. how does a pilot make a mistake like that? well the optimum climb attitude at that point or speed at that point for this aircraft is about 270 knots. so that s where it should have been to get through the climb as quickly as possible with the power settings it had. so obviously something had gone wrong there. there was something that the pilots did not anticipate or they didn t have the information that they needed to make the proper decision which was the case of air france 447 when the pitot tubes had been blocked off and they didn t have air speed indications. one of those two scenarios is likely at this point. let s say they didn t have air speed indication. what is the safest thing for a
up. the question is, can they try angulate and get it to and then recover it? if you arrester, there s a whole new series of things to be done. absolutely. every parameter on the airplane will be on the black box. the fuel settings. the power settings. speed. all those things will be there. whether that will tell us enough as to why the airplane headed south rather than north, we don t know. we know we wouldn t have gone through everything over the last 35 days if they just had the tracking devices available and, as you said, would cost less than an inflight entertainment system. you d hope the would be pressure on the industry to get its act together. that s a done deal. that will happen. we haven t needed before. airplanes haven t been disappearing. as of today, they re moving to do michigan like that, you do something like that. you can bet on it. mike, thank you. prosecutors in the oscar
once it floats with water, it s got very weighty components to it, the landing gear and the engines, of course. so it s not going to remain afloat in the water column. it s going to be negatively buoyant and go to the bottom. another viewers asked, flying as high and slow as possible to save fuel, would it have been possible to reach australia with the original fuel quantity? what do you think, steve? well, we have to calculate that. actually, you don t want to fly as slow as possible. it doesn t get better mileage at a slow speed. the airplane is designed for one person, which is to be highly fuel efficient at a fairly high speed at a high altitude. now, you would have to look at the fuel load and the power settings to calculate as to whether it could have reached australia. i think that this inmarsat data with the pings is some of the
citizens to take the action necessary to provide for the safety and security of the traveling public. reporter: stephanie elam, cnn. and i want to bring back my panel here. jim tillman, many people have been surprised that there were no camera in the cockpit. should they be mandatory going forward? no. the pilot is scrutinized more completely than any other profession on the planet. they know that we have moved the controls a certain way. they know we moved certain power
smile on his face and was quick to share a friendly greeting. this morning, we send our c condolences to all of them. the response seems really fast. the ntsb team was on site very fast. why did it happen? let s bring in earl weiner. he has been at the scene of the derail. . he is overseeing this investigation. thank you for joining us. good morning. so we know that the recording devices that have the data of what was going on with the train was collected. do we know anything yet about why this happened? we are still in the process of downloading the data and validating it. we hope to have more information in terms of what the speeds were, what applications may have been made, what power settings were. will the data you collect frl