what was the last thing you remembered in this crash? i don t remember nothing, man. but this flight attendant patricia mcquigg manages to stay alive. i was up in my jump seat high on top of the wreckage. i couldn t get out. i had no shoes on. part of my uniform on and i was tied up. federal investigators are going to hold an inquiry into the crash of the jumbo jet near miami s airport. but what caused the plane to crash? the mystery lies in why the autopilot suddenly failed to hold its altitude. it turns out it wasn t a mechanical failure, but rather human error. according to the report, when the captain leans across to help with a light bulb and the landing gear indicator, he hits the control column, shutting off the autopilot. the warning chime went off but no one seemed to notice. the crew not only didn t respond to it, they didn t actually hear it, or if they
they had the most knowledge and experience and could do something as sophisticated at this, but clearly it was deliberate, wasn t a mechanical failure because apparently there s so much redundancy in the systems if something goes wrong, there s too many ways for it to be discovered. the fact that the acars or whatever the system was shut down so efficiently at a certain point, obviously, makes it clear that that was i don t know if it was they had been taken hostage by hijackers or done it themselv themselves. i don t think it s clear at this point if the pilots were at fault. the reason the speculation is out of control is because the facts change all the time. every time you get a new set of facts from the malaysians, you get a stampede of a certain kind of speculation, which would make fact, and the major fact is changed. what happened is a few days ago, the malaysians said the pilot had signed off for the last time
manages to stay alive. i was up in my jump seat high on top of the wreckage. i couldn t get out. i had no shoes on. part of my uniform was blown off and i was tied up. federal investigators say they will hold a full public inquiry into the crash. but what caused the plane to crash? the mystery lies in why the auto pilot suddenly failed to hold its altitude. it turns out it wasn t a mechanical failure but rather human error. according to the ntsb report, when the captain leans across to help with a light bulb, he hits the control column, shutting off the autopilot. the warning chime went off but no one seemed to notice. the crew not only didn t respond to it they didn t actually hear it or if they did they didn t process the significance of it. turned into a fiasco. everybody was concentrating on
what was the last thing you remembered in this crash? i don t remember nothing. but this flight attendant manages to stay alive. i was up in my jump seat high on top of the wreckage. i couldn t get out. i had no shoes on. part of my uniform on and i was tied up. but what caused the plane to crash? the mystery lies in why the auto pilot suddenly failed to hold its altitude. it turns out it wasn t a mechanical failure but rather human error. according to the report, when the captain leans across to help with a light bulb, he hits the control column, shutting off the autopilot. the warning chime went off but no one seemed to notice. the crew not only didn t respond to it they didn t actually hear it or if they did
crash of an eastern airlines jumbo jet near miami s airport. but what caused the plane to crash? the mystery lies in why the auto pilot suddenly failed to hold its altitude. it turns out it wasn t a mechanical failure but rather human error. according to the report, when the captain leans across to help with a light bulb, he hits the control column, shutting off the auto pilot. the warning chime went off but no one seemed to notice. the crew not only didn t respond to it they didn t actually hear it or if they did that didn t process the significance of it. it turned into a fiasco. everybody was concentrating on this lightbulb. further deepening the tragedy, investigators discovered the nose gear had been down the whole time. it should be noted that planes can still land safely with just