copilot locked the captain out and purposely crashed the jet in march. now back to our regular programming. on july 19th, 1989, united airlines flight 232 is in deep crisis. after an explosion, the dc10 loses its tailmounted number two engine along with all of its hydraulic fluid which operates the landing gear, glass, slats, steering and brakes. the only control pilots have is over the throttles which determine engine speed. by adjusting thrust on one side or the other, pilots are able to steer the plane. but even under this unimaginable pressure, captain al haynes manages to crack a joke with air traffic controller alan backman. you re clear to land on any
trying to bring attention to incredibly important issues. more than anything i would really love to get a lot of the wealthiest people on toert focus on these issues. nothing screams environmental consciousness like private jets flocking to san tropez. lean nard dicaprio raised $40 million with throttles, bottles and models. juan tells me you wanted to be i invited to that. the only person at this table would be you. i did get invited. my friend went. obviously i m here because this is more exciting. because you re sitting next to me? you know what i was interested in? leonardo dicaprio allowed a bid on his own watch, rolex daytona, a high class rolex. he got 2 million bucks for his watch off his wrist. amazing. elton john auctioned off a private concert as well. 3 million bucks for that. we re going to have it at my
this is a plane clipping a bridge. remember the taxi riding along before going down into the river down below? 43 people died in that crash in february. eight seconds before the plane hit the bridge the pilot said, wow pulled back the wrong side throttle. as a pilot, explain to me les abend, you have two throttles. how do you pull the wrong one? that is a great question. this is a training process that we go through that is just ingrained with us. every recurrent training we deal with an engine failure and that s what they had because that was the eenunciation that they had on the panel. what do you mean? it said right engine failure. the propeller feathered itself
throttles and the then the train continued to accelerate that s one possibility, in my mind. the other possibility is just that it was an unplanned act. it was something that was overlooked simply forgot he was going into a turn. and the third possibility is some kind of inka passitation by the engineer. he was having memory loss. did that happen before or after the accident? we re also learning that the engineer had been traveling the route for just a few weeks. do you think that could have played a part in this derailment? l it s not like you get your driver s license and you can go out and drive on any highway you want in the system. each engineer before they take a new route, they re tested on that route. they go out on the route. they know what s happening. they re tested on which curves where, what are the speed limits at each curve? this is not something that just happens. they re certified to run those routes and he was qualified to do what he was doing. here s the thing
about the investigation into the deadly amtrak train derailment in philadelphia. this is the first day since the accident that passenger trains are running again. one the most important and heavily traveled areas of the northeast. let s go to cnn s rene marsh at philadelphia s main train station for us. what s the latest, rene? reporter: well wolf there s only one way that a train could speed up and that s by the person driving it. data from the train s recorders show that this engineer manually pushed the throttles forward to increase the speed, but the question remains, why? why did this happen? we ve been here all day talking to law enforcement and government sources, and they are all indicating that there is a sharp focus on the engineer and his handling of the train. they are looking at all possibilities. from perhaps, he miscalculated his speed as he was navigating that turn to even looking at the possibility that perhaps