identify yourself and your outlet that would make this a lot easier. yes, sir. [ inaudible ]. the question is, could we provide additional explanation about the stick shaker activation and the go around. what i shared with you was prior to impact there was a stick shaker that activated. this is both an oral and physical cue to the crew that they are approaching a stall. it s called a stick shaker but there is a yoke that the pilots are holding and that yoke vibrates or shakes and it is telling them that a stall is
the target air speed, next thing she said was a stick shaker sound was on. stick shaker literally shakes the stick of the airplane to get the pilot s attention that you are about to enter a stall speed. what happened is, it sounds like they are coming downhill. they are bleeding off air speed the throttles are back at idle, they bleed off too much air speed. now, they realize they are low and flat. stick shaker is going off. somebody in cockpit, go around, go around, let s get out of here. they throw the throttles up but it takes so long for those engines to spool back you they impacted the ground and shattered the tail off the aaron. at that point . gregg: i ve got 90 seconds before a break. why would this happen? is this pilot error?
gregg: no slides. he said there was no warning by the pilot or crew before the plane stopped at the end of the runway. heather: as we told you the ntsb giving a brief summary of the contents of the black box contents including the data and cockpit voice recorder. what, exactly, does this tell us about the crash in or what went wrong? the former ntsb member during the reagan administration and chairman of the omega systems group. thank you for joining us. take us through what was discussed by the ntsb and their initial assessment of the black box. we heard them discuss the cockpit voice recorder, a call from the crew to increase speed which was made at seven seconds prior to impact. then, the sounds of a stick shaker approximately four seconds prior to impact. then a go around call 1.5
mechanical malfunction, pilot error or possibly something else. here s a portion of that news conference revealing some of the new, dramatic details on the investigation so far. listen. the approach proceeds normally as they descend. there is no discussion of any aircraft anomalies or concerns with the approach. prior to impact, there was a stick shaking that activated. this is both an oral and a physical cue to the crew they re approaching a stall. it s called a stick shaker but there s a yolk that the pilots are holding and that yolk vibrates or shakes and it is telling them that a stall is approaching. that activated four seconds prior to impact. there was a call out for a go
approach, again, this is based on the cockpit voice recorder, the communications between the crew and the cockpit. the aircraft was configured for approach with the flaps at 30 degrees and the gear down. the target speed for the approach was 137 knots. the approach proceeds, there is no discussion of any aircraft anomalies or concerns with the approach. a call from one of the crew members to increase speed was made approximately seven seconds prior to impact. the sound of the stick shaker