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This case. shortly thereafter controllers lost contact with the plane. the flight was scheduled to land at 8:30 a.m. local. here now security expert and former commercial pilot an no any roman. thanks for being with us. you are in that situation. a lot of turbulence. you ask air traffic control, can we deviate, increase altitude, whatever, to get around whats in front of us. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. you hit a situation where you may need to take evasive action. there is something...

Enjoyed my time as the captain on the airplane. we flew it in all weather. it is a very maneuverable airplane. it has absolute state of the art electronics, both weather radar and systems on the airplane. so the pilots of an a-320 are prepared as anybody in the sky to be able to deal with inclement weather. and pilots professional pilots deal with thunderstorms and inclement weather regularly. its part of the experience that you gain as a pilot. so the deviation requests are absolutely normal. t...

What has come out of it is a slight rebalancing. ive spoken to people very familiar with this deal. what they tell me is that they, the airlines can live with it and now it is all about execution. >> so here youve spun me now. youre saying, your fares are going up but not sxs you think. heres the other thing. people complain about the planes them say this is a really old plane. >> theyve gotten gins and wings. >> they fly but theyre not the night of thing on the planett and you tell me that here...

We turn next hertoew reporting tonight after we learned of a close call at the san francisco airport. a major disaster narrowly averted, an air canada passenger plane coming in for a landing, heading straight for a taxiway, where four other passenger planes were waiting to take off. up to 1,000 passengers on those planes. heres abcs david kerley. >> reporter: new details tonight on a disaster averted on this runway. an air canada pilot, confused on a night approach. >> tower, i just want to conf...

Model of a very reliable model of planes. the a-320 is flown around the world, its a work horse of a plane. 0.14 fatal loss. its very, very low. its registered in ireland. its the irish who are ensuring that the documentation is done correctly and that the plane is maintained well. it is usually in the interest of whoever is holding that lease, it is in their interest toin sure the people because whoever owns that plane is going to want to sell that plane down the road. so its in the irish inter...

A-320 are rare. the aircraft has an excellent safety record. there are more than 6,000 a-320s in operation around the world. im joined by a triple 777 pilot and scott hamilton and john cox and anthony davis. i want to start tonight with a picture of the cockpit of the a-320. now to the layperson out there who doesnt fly, you look at this cockpit and you think, wow, this is a lot of stuff. actually this is a relatively easy aircraft to fly and it is set up systematically in most of the a-320s the...

Of the -- not speculation, but basically the scenario thats now widely accepted that andreas lubitz purposely crashed this plane because of some mental issues. he said french investigators are still going with that scenario, but they need to keep other options open other possible scenarios such as a mechanical one. a french pilot union meanwhile has filed a lawsuit because of the leaks that got out before the investigators opened their mouths and they also say that they have doubts about what wa...

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