Friday Summary

Casey wakes the next morning stiff and sore. There is a large bruise on the side of her face from falling from the security webbing under the airplane the night before. Casey shakes off her discomfort, however, because she has less than ten hours before her interview and she still needs to find the truth. Casey takes the QAR to Norton and has Wong hook it up to the computer. The computer is able to tell them that there was a slats warning before the slats deployed. The deployment was not uncommanded, but commanded. Now Casey knows the first two steps in the chain of events that led to the incident on Flight 545. Casey also learns that the plane exceeded its designed G-load, leaving it vulnerable to breaking apart in flight. Finally, Casey learns that the pilot fought the autopilot while the incident...