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Welcome back. recovery efforts go on in the crash of airasia flight 8501, i keep thinking about the need for real time transmission of data from the cockpits of commercial airlines. if i can track my kids through their cell phones, why cant we do likewise when hundreds of lives are in the hands of two pilots. arthur is a pilot, an aviation attorney and the founding partner of the law firm and he joins me from philadelphia. arthur, this has been your business for 46 years. what is it that you thi...

Dispatch aircraft in foul weather in the hope that their flight crews will be able to use their radar to avoid serious weather conditions. this crew used its radar, but they tried to climb, they were denied the full climb that they requested, they deviated and they were able to deviate around some storms but theres a point when the weather gets so bad that an airplane shouldnt be dispatched. this was such an evening. >> does the fact that the pilot made that request to climb comport with arthur ...

Welcome back. recovery efforts go on in the crash of airasia flight 8501 i keep thinking about the need for real time transmission of data from the cockpits of commercial airlines. if i can track my kids through their cell phones why cant we do likewise when hundreds of lives are in the hands of two pilots. arthur is the founding partner of the law firm and he joins me from philadelphia. arthur this has been your business for 46 years. what is it that you think went on that you havent heard anyb...

Weather in the hope that their flight crews will be able to use their airborne radar to avoid serious weather conditions. this crew used its radar, but they tried to climb, they were denied the full climb that they requested, they deviated and they were able to deviate around some storms, but theres a point when the weather gets so bad that an airplane shouldnt be dispatched. this was such an evening. >> does the fact that the pilot made that request to climb comport with arthur walks concern ab...

Into an airport. they fly all around the world, there are a lot of different destinations. what you want to do is have a crew thats proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, thats important. >> arthur walk, whats your assessment thus far of the experience issue? >> i think 43 hours, which the captain had, is not an unreasonably low amount of experience for the 777. remember, he had over 10,000 hours flying big airplanes, like 747s. thats not unusual. w...

Doesnt change what hes doing, then you take over the airplane. thats the way it goes. thats the safety procedures that are taught. and thats what should have happened here. >> arthur walk, thank you for your expertise. >> sure. up next, mitch mcconnells off-key attack on his new senate opponent. and just a reminder, you can listen to my radio program every weekday morning at 9:00 eastern on sirius xms channel 124. this is "hardball," the place for politics. im tony siragusa and im training guy...

Why didnt he say, lets execute a go-around, in time to avoid a crash. he didnt. now, the captain, for whatever reason, maybe he was tired, maybe he was -- didnt have enough time in the airplane, at least for his own comfort level. thats why you have a very experienced pilot in the right seat, 3,200 hours in the 777, who is supposed to say and do something. >> is it difficult, sometimes, final question for arthur walk, but is it difficult for that person in the second seat to speak up in a circum...

Airplane speeded up. and he didnt do that. >> this morning, ntsb chairman, deborah hersman said the pilots lack of experience landing this plane at this airport was not out of the ordinary. >> its not unusual for pilots to have a first landing coming into an airport. they fly all around the world, there are a lot of different destinations. what you want to do is have a crew thats proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, thats important. >> arthur walk...