Parts of the plane would be spread over a wider area, which it isn t. we ve got that information that you and i just discussed. what then would you say the pilots went through with that new data we have right now? well, what happens is there are three pilo tube ss. you get the pitot tubes are long tubes on the wings and determine speed and height and other such things. yes. exactly. it s on the nose and they point straight ahead. they re open and they can collect air but they can also collect little tiny ice crystals. that s what happened with the airfrance flight. and what happens is that you get inaccurate information. yes, but they re heated. you re supposed to be able to melt the ice. if the tube gets impacted you can get a bad speed rating and
Other things to play out while you re flying and we know going back to air france 447, the pitot tubes, they measure the speed of the aircraft. they were caught they had some ice form on them. if thisson scenario played out it could be a factor. it s uncanny we have another mystery like this in the same year. thanks pedram. now we turn to another major story we are following, but we are happy to say in this one there are people being res khaicued. the ferry has been burning for more than 24 hours now. this is the first images of passengers of the 49 passengers that were picked up by a passing
tom, some comparisons that experts are drawing between this particular flight perhaps whatever happened and an air france crash, going between rio and paris, that plane stalled as it was climbing and we were just talking about the instruments being an issue. is there is that an accurate comparison do you think? well we don t know until we know what happened with this plane but it s a scenario that makes sense. in the air france crash, what happened is the plane if we use this as our example right now was dramatically losing air speed. it was slowing down but, in particular they had a problem with these things down here. you see this tiny device on the airplane you may have seen it if you have flown on one. the pitot tube tells you how fast the plane is moving through the air. in the air france crash, there had been previous problems of ice crystals forming giving false speed. if you look at the idea of a
Borneo. here is the last point of known contact. this is what we call a cold spot. that s indicative of a mature thunderstorm allowing cold air to collapse down to the surface. downdrafts are possible updrafts are possible. the aircraft was traveling at 100 miles or so per hour. that s a concern as well with an aircraft that is capable of going up around 40,000 feet super cooled water droplets exist. and they freeze when they make contact with some inanimate object. this is a pattern we saw over air france 447. we have the pitot tubes, the needles that give the airspeed information. if this aircraft flies into something of that nature that is very very dangerous when it comes to causing freezing on the device that controls the speed
Grab says. we haven t confirmed it. climbing at 36,000 feet that s why experts are thinking that the plane was climbing because it was at 32,000 when the pilot made the request to go to 38. 105 miles per hour it s not very fast. not fast enough to sustain flight. how does a pilot make a mistake like that? well the optimum climb attitude at that point or speed at that point for this aircraft is about 270 knots. so that s where it should have been to get through the climb as quickly as possible with the power settings it had. so obviously something had gone wrong there. there was something that the pilots did not anticipate or they didn t have the information that they needed to make the proper decision which was the case of air france 447 when the pitot tubes had been blocked off and they didn t have air speed indications. one of those two scenarios is likely at this point. let s say they didn t have air speed indication. what is the safest thing for a