went on for seven hours. my question to you, could a automatic pilot procedure keep a plane flying on a straight line for seven hours without anybody alive on the plane? a zombie flight, if you will. could that happen? is it possible? absolutely, yes. no question. so there is no dead man switch like in railroads. if you re dead, the plane keeps flying? if the entire crew is incapacitated, the autopilot is engaged and the flight management computer has a path or route to fly, it will fly that. if it doesn t, if it hits what is known as a discontinuity, it will fly a heading and continue to fly that until fuel exhaustion. okay. let me go back to bob hager i ve known forever. this is the veteran s question of your career. i don t know how you do this. we keep hearing, or we did for days in the analysis we were getting is you couldn t have a catastrophic moment that shut down every possible instrument of communication and all the data, all the voice, no way to communicate back to c
8:11 a.m. the day it disappeared nearly eight hours after take off and seven hours after air traffic control last site of the aircraft. still no answers where it was going on why. the search has expanded to a danting area including the northern and southern track in the indian ocean. sunday, march 16, authorities claim the communication system, known as acars was disabled before the pilots last words to air traffic control leading to questions about why the crew did not raise this issue. the timing of the acar shut down would later be called in a shut down. that same day malaysia s government reveals the captain s personal fliekt simulaght simul being examined. we learn the co-pilot uttered the final words the flight. all right, goodnight. the number of countries involved in the search has grown from 14
8:11 a.m. the day it disappeared nearly eight hours after take off and seven hours after air traffic control last site of the aircraft. still no answers where it was going on why. the search has expanded to a danting area including the northern and southern track in the indian ocean. sunday, march 16, authorities claim the communication system, known as acars was disabled before the pilots last words to air traffic control leading to questions about why the crew did not raise this issue. the timing of the acar shut down would later be called in a shut down. that same day malaysia s government reveals the captain s personal fliekt simulaght simul being examined. we learn the co-pilot uttered the final words the flight. all right, goodnight. the number of countries involved in the search has grown from 14
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immarsat and this is high quality. i have an admonition not to speculate, but we re left with very little information, captain cox, and that is that the flight went on for seven hours. my question to you, could a automatic pilot procedure keep a plane flying on a straight line for seven hours without anybody alive on the plane? a zombie flight, if you will. could that happen? is it possible? absolutely, yes. no question. so there is no dead man switch like in railroads. if you re dead, the plane keeps flying? if the entire crew is incapacitated, the auto pilot is engaged and the flight management computer has a path or route to fly, it will fly that. if it doesn t, if it hits what is known as a disconneaut, it will fly a heading and continue to fly that until fuel exhaustion. okay. let me go back to bob hager i ve known forever. this is the veteran s question of your career. i don t know how you do this. we keep hearing, or we did for