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UB Expert Explains Flight Dynamics

By Joyce Kryszak

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wbfo/local-wbfo-820901.mp3

Buffalo, NY – Investigators already have pieced together many details of what happened in the moments before Continental Flight 34-07 went down. But deeper analysis is needed for experts to understand how all those pieces fit together causing such a tragedy. WBFO's Joyce Kryszak talked with an expert in flight dynamics from UB. Professor Puneet Singla explains how the weather - and even one cloud - could have been a factor.

The black box recorder recovered from the crash site have yielded valuable information about what went on inside the cockpit on that fated night. But Professor Singla says Flight 34-07 might simply have been doomed by a bad cloud.

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