experts say when the plane s auto throttle is placed in a hold mode as it was during in flight, it s supposed to reengage or wake up when it reaches minimum air speed. but at today s hearing, a veteran pilot for the faa said that during test flights, it didn t always work. a technical but important point here, so lots of questions about whether the auto throttle was operating properly and why the pilot didn t abort what he knew was a difficult landing sooner than he did. claudia, thank you. a man who was supposed to be the sign language interpret ter at nelson mandela s memorial service was apparently no interpreter at all. he s the guy on the right obviously doing all that stuff. officials say the deaf federation says the gestures dpts mean anything. occasionally he would sign something weird and out of context that didn t mean anything. there are many different forms