John Teichert: Crash investigation three-stage process

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The investigation into the plane and helicopter crash will follow a three-stage process, former Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for the Air Force Retired Brigadier General John Teichert says.  #Planecrash

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00:00To the investigators, what are the obvious questions that need to be raised at this stage?

00:06What would you ask them to focus their efforts on?

00:08Tom, there are three major stages of the investigation.

00:11The first is to gather all the perishable data so that you can have it on hand when

00:18you investigate.

00:19The next is then to piece together exactly what happened.

00:23And the final is to get to those root causes.

00:25Some of that perishable information includes training records, maintenance records, personnel

00:31records, and then all of the communication that went on between air traffic control and

00:36those aircraft, not just in the seconds before the crash, but in the minutes before the crash

00:42to see if there was a root cause that led to confusion way earlier than the crash.

00:47And then gathering all of the debris once the bodies are recovered and starting to piece

00:52together the aircraft and using those flight data recorders or black boxes to trace the

00:57details of what was going on in the cockpit and with the machines before the crash and

01:02during the crash will be all of the things that these bodies will be charged with investigating

01:07to quickly get to the root cause.

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