have a lot of experience, that co-pilot is definitely confident enough and competent to handle an emergency procedure because of that extensive training. david, do you agree? oh yeah, absolutely. in fact, there s been some studies about the combined cockpit, where we talk a lot about crew resource management. and is it better to have two experienced pilots that rely on their institutionalized thinking or someone new. it really comes down to the red box checklists, the things that are committed to memory and those that are just out of training would be more recent, better recall of those red box lists than would a senior captain. so i think it was a good combination of the skills and experience in that cockpit. okay. thank you both very, very much. coming up, back to the families. because as the families anger boils over, we are now learning exactly how much money the airline is giving them during this waiting period. so i ll ask an aviation attorney whether this dollar figure
adjust. it wouldn t be easy. would you try to keep the plane at stall, in other words slow? at minimum speed as possible. yeah. the key would be set the tail down first and rest of the body to drop afterwards. you want to keep the wings level. if you don t, if you tip, you cart wheel. a cart wheel would be devastating and destructive. the problem is without fuel without the engines running, you get only one shot to do it. we have no way to know if that was attempted. we re demonstrating this airplane could have tried even if it was out of fuel. let s take it up then. that s a look at how a water landing might have happened. carol? not likely though, right? again stormy weather a big factor today. it was too dangerous for search and recovery operations. with me now, the senior captain at the institution of
experienced captain with an inexperienced captain it s a lot of experience in the cockpit of the two combined. often you try to bring a junior captain up along with the senior captain and i ve worked many cases where there was this disparity, many times there s a checking airman and a senior captain with a more junior captain. it doesn t necessarily mean that there s, you know, there was anything wrong with either one, or that he had a giant aircraft just turned over to him. it wouldn t be that way at all, particularly if they used good what they call crew resource management and that s a requirement in the united states and that s a practice where the pilots must challenge each other. they must, you know, if something doesn t seem right they must ask a question and they most must do it. so they are both actively involved in the piloting, and really the airmanship of this plane. so, i don t think that the pairing of really a senior guy
anderson, is nothing significant in the crime or terrorism world happens without some planning, casing and the act itself if you re going to be successful. those are the operational acts that lead up to a major incident or terrorism crime. rehearsals on the flight simulator might be interesting to go back and see what other routes had this chap captain flown in the months and weeks prior to this particular incident. on the simulator you mean. or in real life. what other trips has he taken. why as a senior captain did he bid the airline people will know what i m speaking about that he bid this trip. was this a good trip for a captain with his seniority or was this kind of a dog of a trip but he bid it? that could raise questions about to, okay, there s not a good reason for him to take this trip. there must be something else afoot. mary, do you agree with that? yeah. but there s a really important point, too. he makes a great point. because just flying on the simulator we can
jeff, the fbi is also we re told analyzing the copilot s computer. you see a number of sort of cumulative acts, operational acts. what do you mean by that? what i mean by that, anderson, is nothing significant in the crime or terrorism world happens without some planning, casing and the act itself if you re going to be successful. those are the operational acts that lead up to a major incident or terrorism crime. rehearsals on the flight simulator might be interesting to go back and see what other routes had this chap captain flown in the months and weeks prior to this particular incident. on the simulator you mean. or in real life. what other trips has he taken. why as a senior captain did he bid the airline people will know what i m speaking about that he bid this trip. was this a good trip for a captain with his seniority or was this kind of a dog of a trip but he bid it? that could raise questions about