was likely to have been flying. there s kind of an equation here. what s missing from this report is whatever radar data they might have had about altitude that s obviously the key point here. if it s going faster and lower you ll have fight a fuel burn. if it s going lower and the throttles are pulled back and it s going slower it has a lot of range. so maybe this was a situation where it was in fact at that lower altitude we ve been talk about and going much faster than thought and as a result would run out of fuel more quickly. the higher a plane like this goes the more fuel-efficient it is. that s why you get more range. on that point, miles, if it was flying lower as people suggested before, what theory does that now lend itself more to of all the theories that have been out there? low er and faster, again thi is in the realm of some sort of deliberate act, human intervention would cause that to occur. fact it might have been down at
communication radio, control heads, and transponder on that center panel right below throttles, if there was an electrical fire or problem in that area, we would lose that information from the airplane. doesn t mean they manually shut the switches off. it means what we know for sure the time line and time things quit talking to everybody. we ll never know for sure what happened. at this point, you believe it s just as likely there was a mass event on this plane that had nothing to do with human intervention? absolutely. i don t see anything here that tells me i m a security guy by training. i ve been doing this 25 years. i typically say this has got to be a terrorist event. everything here i m seeing is typical of other electrical fire problems. the sequence of events we re seeing we ve seen happen before
time, so he moved towards that initially and then placed himself over the central instrument panel and on to the lap of the handling co-pilot. unbrooefelievable. so he moved right in there, sat in his lap and was pant to take into control. what did you do? he had the control right to his chest. at the time, i was still asleep. after the initial entry and he grabbed the controls, the aircraft jerked rather quickly, extremely quickly upwards. the automatic throttles opened to full thrust and the aircraft started to bank to one side. in the bunk, i knew that things were not as they should have been because i felt the initial buffeting, which all pilots
spode of sound. it is requirements to be able to fly with this time. in case the plane were to crash you could quickly get out of the plane. he is able to because he is got great agility. it sounds like he is ready and he can make any situation turn around. reporter: he is an incredible guy and over come obstacles. it was a great day for him. did you miss it when you watch those. reporter: you really hit me with that, harris. you cannot miss flying when you so this. it takes you back to what it is like to feel the jet and fly. it if i was flying with them. i would be in the front seat and had the throttles. good to have you and great story. thank you. lea tells me that blake
altogether. so, mistakes can be made. how dangerous? the fact that this runway was so much shorter than the runway at the correct airport, i mean, what kind of a risk is there? i mean, they were 300 feet from the end of this thing. anderson when i heard this story, i got goose bumps, i ve got to tell you. i really feel like we dodged a big one here. 300 feet from absolute disaster is what we re talking about. that s far too close. i mean, whatever the purpose that was going down when this happened or the reason for it, it s got to be corrected, because we dodged a bullet here. would they have been able to pull the aircraft up, having realized that the runway was that short? absolutely. that 737 is a very modern airplane, it has lots of power. the second they realized that they were crossing the numbers and realized, hey, this is the wrong airport, just push those throttles forward to the front wall and that thing will get out of there, you know. they could have aborted that and