The cockpit instruments indicated problems with the number three engine, which the crew shut down.
In the 1970s, the average aircraft had more than 100 cockpit instruments and controls.
After the launch from ar-1, he had settled in for a thorough examination of the cockpit instruments.
When you are in the air and have climbed to 800 feet you check all the cockpit instruments again.
All with primitive cockpit instruments operated by air and hydraulic pressure.
Oh - we have one other cockpit instrument working, our E.2B compass.
His message was brief and to the point: "We've lost the cockpit instruments."
Intent on the cockpit instruments, Berry failed to see what was passing a few miles to his left.
Most pilots say it was a temporary aberration of the cockpit instrument.
It was the first time the recording, made by cockpit instruments and recovered from the wreckage, had been played in public.