every single major accident you ve ever heard of has resulted in a change of procedures or a change of equipment. and, you know, not only does the faa change the rules, but every pilot will think about it. they ll talk about it. and you ll see for instance, great example, in the case of air france 447, in the transcript you can hear the captain saying to the pilot flying, not too much rudder. he was referring to an earlier crash that had taken place over long island in 2001 where a pilot had ripped off the rudder by using too much rudder. so he d been working the rudder pedals back and forth and ripped off so everyone s going to have this front of mind the next time anything like this happens. there have been a number of incidents where the pilots have overcorrected using too much rudder. you remember the crash that happened right after 9/11 that s what i m talking about. right, right. 847 or something like that. i forget what it was. unbelievable. listen, here s what bil
globe have gathered in oshkosh, wisconsin, to celebrate the world of flight. a reported 10,000 planes of all shapes and sizes will fly in, some different than others like this one. drive it like a car. it s got a steering wheel, a gas pedal and brake pedal. you fly it just like a little airplane. the stick comes off the floor. you ve got rudder pedals. you have to remember what you re doing. are you driving or are you flying? but the plane knows what it s doing. wow. not just anybody can fly that thing. you ll need a pilot s license of course and some pretty deep pockets. the price tag, $279,000. but this guy can afford to buy you one. mike tobin is at the air show live in oshkosh. mike, some controversy surrounding this week. reporter: you know, harris, for the duration of the show, the little whitman regional airport here holds the title of the busiest airport in the world, but this year due to the sequester and for the first time in six decades of the show the faa told the org
well, they would probably take the control yoke as they say and they would push it forward and then use the rudder pedals down here until it came to a stop. i asked him what the worst-case scenario could have been at laguardia. the worst-case scenario is where the aircraft fails, gets down in the dirt and gets into some type of a spin or even a cartwheel. with much of the fuel in the wings, that could spark a much larger fire. the laguardia accident isn t a first. in june 2007 a southwest 737 had a nose gear collapse in oakland, california. the pilot did have advanced warning then and made an emergency landing. when i asked hyatt if this is a problem unique to southwest airlines or to the 737, he said no. the main issue, he says, is the frequency of takeoffs and