because there s faa regulations that say at that altitude, that s the altitude that people can survive. the plane is supposed to be able to correct to that altitude. that was significant. it would have been good, and we understand that there was a problem, the circuit breakers were pulled. it would be good to have the cockpit voice recorder to go with them. were you thinking that you would learn something additional other than in-person orrize interview? what would that cockpit recorder tell you or suggest that you couldn t have in an interview setting? sometimes there s additional sounds captured on the cockpit voice recorder that the flight crew doesn t recall.
recorders on the plane and every piece of the tower and with each other and even someone saying is what is that on the runway and not saying is it, and every piece of airbus they will have, and the cockpit recorder, and the tower as well, and we have to give kudos to the tower, because there is a fire emergency phone in the tower, and you pick it up and the crews respond, and clearly they will, and that is recorded, too, and the only question is the dash-8 which is the coast guard plane, and it could be very old and could have not a lot of recording and may not have any recordings at all, but everything is recorded in this accident. mary skichschiavo, thank you coming on. thank you. and now, the details of a accident in rochester, and what we have learned about the suspect who crashed into a crowd
that was left brian todd is hearing from the first responders, and so as the investigators are looking at or looking for at this point, miles? well, in is a tough one, kate. clearly, it impacted, and it ran out of gas at 4,000 feet and then just went straight down like a lawn dart. so it would have impacted with tremendous speed and not a lot of big pieces left as a result of this. this is an aircraft which is not a charter aircraft. it flies under part 91 which is just general aviation rules, and so there is no requirement for any sort of flight data recorder or cockpit recorder, and it could be possible on the plane or retrofitted later, and so this is a difficult one to solve, and maybe they will find the smoke gun piece which shows that some sort of valve in the pressurization system gave way causing an insidious loss of
an eyewitness that shows how quickly the plane banks and then you hear the explosion. it s not even seconds after that moment that you see there. and the video that is so disturbing of the live stream from inside the plane, which was filmed by one of the five indian passengers there, we ve been able to confirm it with the gentleman s friend, you can hear the people onboard the plane kind of joking in hindi and then a moment later sounding a little bit more alarmed and then it s all over so very, very and tragically quickly. the black boxes have been recovered. the flight data recorder and the cockpit recorder, and they will be analyzed. the authorities in nepal have called for a five-person investigating committee to report back within 45 days on this. the weather looked good. flying in nepal can be tough on a good day. it s got some of the highest mountains in the world,
michael daniels is an aviation analyst and hejoins me now from singapore. thank you very much for being with us. scant information at the moment, an investigation surely under way. what will it be looking for? the surely under way. what will it be looking for? be looking for? the first part ofthe be looking for? the first part of the investigation - be looking for? the first part of the investigation process l be looking for? the first part| of the investigation process is search and rescue, and hopefully they will recover some survivors but after that, once they shut down the certain rescue phase, and they were going to the full accident investigation mode because this can tell us that there are a lot of people around who can contaminate the investigation area and others, but it s important to secure the area because you need to look for the flight recorder, the cockpit recorder and the need to start gathering the data the