i think it is called, what do you call it? overspeed when you stopped it the speed brake. you would pull the street brake. if you pulled the speed brake lever, marine and mitchell, that would indeed put even more stress on to the aircraft, correct in. yeah. it would increase it. it would add some stress, yes. but you want to get down and expedite your descend as much as possible. i have the speed breakout here because i know we don t have a lot of time and we want to get down. are we at 15,000 feet yet? yeah. i guess at this altitude you can breathe. but you want to get lower. what is the rate of descent? over here we have 5,000 feet per minute. between 4,500 and 5,000 feet per minute. that s extremely high.
just passing 13,000. again remembering as we get close to this, marty works this have been uncomfortable, martin and mitchell for the passengers in back? we re almost at 12,000 feet now. yes, it will be extremely uncomfortable. it depends how big the hole would be or whatever has been created. you would have wind, cold, air blasting in. and then on top of that, the banking of the aircraft. not to mention the human shock. so yes, i would say in this scenario we re painting. and there are many other ways you can pain this. are we there yet? we re below 10,000 now. we re about 9600. so we took it farther. you took it a bit farther. i didn t see what time we came out of break. how long do you think that was,
something exploded out back you were at altitude and then you had this decompression. what would you do? purity speed brake, thrust forward, you want to get down as fast as possible. we would put our oxygen mask on. reporter: this is kind of an emergency and definitely would be. then you want to get the plane down low because the passengers would not be breathing or breathing on those emergency masks that come down. you need to get them down to a point where they can breathe on their own. the other thing is the turn. the turn would imply you re going back to kuala lumpur, the airport you left a short time ago or maybe you re turning to the west to get to a nearby airport where you can set this plane on the ground and have everyone treat forward this emergency. so that is scenario number one. how the drop and turn would support an emergency. level us off if you would, mitchell. leapt me show you how this data is actually being told cnn by a
so you want to keep it within limits. overspeeding is saying you re pushing the aircraft so fast that it could have pieces of parts come off it. naturally if you ve had some sort of explosion that caused this sudden decompression, you may have weakened the air frame in some way. that overstressing what already happened. we re still at 24,000 feet. so in other words, this would take some time to get down there. it would. even though we re considering it to be an emergency circumstance. and of course you would be talking to air traffic control. would be running through a check list. him responding to me, me responding to him. don t forget we have flight attendants, we have passengers. talking to them. we have a phone here. so it is just, you know, following that check list. everything as per the check list and using everything we have including the radio. that s important. 22,000 feet. 21.
evidence or information that it made a sharp turn and then it dropped from 35,000 feet to 12,000 feet. and we have been putting that into the flight simulator to see exactly how that might play out. marine and mitchell have been doing that. now our panel of experts are weighing in. they have some questions for you. first, cnn aviation analyst, mark weiss, what do you want to know? first, i want to remind everybody that a number of years ago a united airlines 747 out over the pacific lost a cargo door at altitude. and was able to make a safe emergency landing. so structurally the aircraft stayed intact. but the question i have, and this is primarily for mitchell, when we re talking about electric buses on the airplane. the buses are basically the power source, let s say, for the electrics and it is broken up into different areas. kind of like what you would have