George Black
George Black
carefully crew given information looking nature radar tapes weather
We'll be looking at what weather information they had been given and then very carefully at the Doppler radar tapes and things of that nature from the area. We'll be looking at what the weather actually was and what the crew thought it was.
looking
There could be ... We're looking into that.
airplane degree engine front last leak oil
Last November, an engine was removed from another airplane (and was) put through some degree of maintenance at Delta. This had to do with an oil leak on the front bearing, which is at the very front end of the engine.
based compare impossible observed possible
We'll try to compare what has been observed (Monday) with these two time-lines to see what's possible and what's impossible based on that information. That's really the only thing we can do.
large number survivors
We have a large number of survivors here.
broken couple
It is broken in half, at least, and there are a couple of fuselage fractures.
appears effect sort
It appears to be some sort of aerodynamic effect
checked coordinate hotel literally people rooms trying walked
Some of them literally walked away from here and checked into a hotel room. So we are now trying to find everyone and coordinate the manifest, which the coroner has, with the people we have in hotel rooms or who are in hospitals.
area failure
The area of failure was part of that work,
polished system work
We think we've got a system that will work and we'll try to get it as polished as we can.
accident data face information radar reduced seriously whatever
This seriously hampers the investigation. Let's face it. We're now reduced on this accident to having only radar data and whatever information we can glean from that (and) eyewitness statements.
both course damage imply losing power relatively report
There is relatively little damage to the propellers. And this of course would imply and back up the pilots' report of losing power on both engines.
analysis facts
Those are facts and there has been no analysis done on any of this.
thankful
He was cooperative, ... We were thankful for that.