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About the business and hes still just learning. >> i knowing you know, the dinner boeings and airbuses and all that kind of stuff. i dodge know how many times i put a model in and roger would say, in 1972 they had this transition. i was like, what are you talking about? >> though theres been a change in control, a lot of the customers dont know theres a difference between father and son. >> when people call over the phone and they ask for roger. its like what roger. >> make no mistake about it. ...

Deploy troops to douma. this might be some bull from the russians trying to forestall an attack. if russians are there and killed as a result because of what general keane said we should destroy all six air bosses. >> last week president trump made very publicly that he wants the u.s. out of syria at the latest six months from now. this has the potential if we go off all six airbuses to draw us deeper into syria. so i think thats part of what the president is wrestling with right now. >> put a q...

They make it here? 640,000 cars. infrastructure, the quality of worker, training that the workers get, the ability to get to ports and the american highway subpoena are a lot of reasons that are other than just wage but also, the idea of anies that are brands need the rep ewationutationalreputat. >> discontent from arguably a gutted middle class has to do with globalization and trade and some has to do with technological advances and more with technology than trade but still, built in america is...

Brazil, you think of the asian january that plane or asian airplane that went down near java. obviously, the germanwings crash which was apparently pilot-induced, but whats going on that all of these planes are reaching the safest moment of flight and then dropping? >> well, youre absolutely right, jon. that is usually the safest moment in flight. and statistics show either its the takeoff or landing phase is where most accidents occur. i want people to understand this and keep booking for the h...

In the cockpit. >> the only way is through a maintenance channel. theres a maintenance communication system. im not sure if this aircraft had it or not but most of these airbuses have a communication system for maintenance reporting back to the home base which would be one possibility. >> jim, does it make sense to you why a pilot would leave the cockpit at this point of the flight? >> -- i think we lost jim there. does it make sense why they lost contact at this time? >> weve all flown extensiv...

As you probably know, it went down in the french alps on a flight from barcelona to dusseldorf, germany. the plane descending 27,000 feet in nearly 8 minutes and apparently flying straight into the ground. tonight, there is new focus on a key safety feature on airbuses that can sometimes under rare conditions put them into a descent that can hard to stop. airbus knew of the problem, and the european aviation safety agency the equivalent of americas faa issued a warning about it nearly four month...

Planes pilots, procedures, when theyre all in flux thats a perfect storm. management needs to be involved to make sure accidents dont follow. >> now that weve scared everyone from flying what will you say to the average commuter about the state of air travel to or from the u.s. today? >> its funny that you mention commuters because its regional planes in the united states that have had crashes in the last years and the majors have not. this is a will beup call for the majors -- a wake-up call fo...

Wouldnt worry about altitude he would worry about attitude how stable is his airplane in terms of his horizon. >> what do you make jeff? >> well airbuses are built with something called envelope protection. when youre flying them around normally the plane will not let you put it into a situation beyond its flight envelope or to stall, for instance. you can get into situations -- this happened with air france 447 where if the sensors get clogged for instance and the computer isnt able to make sen...

Black boxes were recovered. although we did have some indication from the wreckage that the plane belly smacked on the surface of the ocean. both aircraft were heading into turbulence. both are airbuses and both rely quite a bit on computers to fly the plane. one of the things that i wonder about is that handoff. there was an issue in the air france 447 case. the handoff between the computer and the pilots. so when the computer said i cant figure this out, you fly the plane. in that case they we...

Talking about the comparisons with air france. they were both in thunderstorms. both airbuses and people say, well there was no pan pan call, no mayday call. pan pan by the way is less severe distress call. so it was none of. that it must have been this catastrophic accident. what if these pilots were really fighting this thing all the way into the water? your thoughts? >> well that is a very real possibility. and the reason why i say that is, in october this past october, eaas, issued a directi...