might have happened in the two minutes between where the pilot requests an increase in altitude and a change in flight plan and this thing just falling off the radar. it is you have a full lot of speculation in there. you could have a catastrophic failure, pressurization failure. you could have a man-caused issue like a device. you could have a stall. trace: aerodynamic stall mention admin ago. trace: right. you could have the tubes telling the pilots and computers wrong information which could lead to inappropriate actions on part of the pilots. trace: john, great insight as always. thank you sir. thank you for having me. leah: how the president s executive action on immigration could be endangering one of california s biggest industries. we ll look at the possible repercussions. trace: why this surfer is lucky to be alive after a terrifying attack. as a surfer i m a freak. i m in their element if my card
leah: and in this particular aircraft, it had fly-by require which we ve talked about that, essentially, you put controls in, a computer decides what to do with those control inputs, and it could potentially fight the pilot. the computer system might actually say no, i m not going to let this plane climb any higher because it s already going outside its operating end slope. i think that s a great point and that s one of the fundamental differences between a boeing and an air bus aircraft is that aircraft on the airbus side wants to have the health of its aircraft it doesn t want to depart controlled flight and it will fight the pilot. so in some cases it could be detrimental to the aircraft at the end of the day. leah: right. because the pilot could essentially end up sort of fighting the flight controls, fighting the you were a and get so focused on that and we ve seen this in military accidents that they just kind of lose sight of the big picture. but in terms of fighting this cras
way to singapore sunday morning local time. the pilot of the plane radioed in that he was facing bad weather and requesting a course change before losing contact with indonesian air traffic control. the u.s. asked indonesia if it needed its help in the surgery, but so far in the search but so far the offer hasn t been taken up. families are continuing to wait for news at airports in both indonesia and sing pore one woman waiting anxiously says her fiance was onboard. i listen to the radio, and i just, and i brought in internet and i knew that it was his plane, yeah. it was supposed to be there before we got married. reporter: and the grim wait, of course, continues for all those families. back to you leah. leah: david piper in thailand, thank you. trace: a big focus of this
to institute a type of training called crew resource management and i bet we re seeing some excellent crew resource management going on right now. there s four pilots normally on these long haul 747 flights. between all four crew members and, as you say, the people on the ground. the engineers at boeing are probably involved with this. they re looking at the wiring diagrams. they ve got plenty of time. you ve pointed out fuel is time, so they re not going to make any hasty decisions x they re certainly not going to run out of gas like happened way back when. leah: i just want to jump in and say we re showing live pictures of gatwick airport. our producers tell us this is not the airplane. the airplane involved is still circling as we speak. we do not have a confirmation at this point. trace: there are emergency vehicles that are going out there, so this may very well be the plane, we do not have confirmation yet. again, a 747 400 series, that s
that event i think was very inappropriate. and i do not support it. rudy giuliani saying de blasio needs to apologize for his actions. so should he? we ll debate that. plus an out of control suv leaving a path of destruction. what caused this tragedy and how it finally ended. hundreds of people trapped on a ferry that caught fire. the latest on efforts to save hundreds of passengers. we come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should just give them to us i mean, we re going to be there anyway why don t you just leave it for us to pick up? or you could always get in your car and take it back yourself yeah, us picking it up is probably your easiest option it s kind of a no brainer ok, well, good talk