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Before they got to a flying pilot. all of our mentality was keep the people in the back of the airplane from getting to the front of the airplane. so we built these systems and gave the pilots the able to ensure that level of security. we never thought about it. or it was never really concerning we would have the bad guy, if you will behind the locked door keeping the people that are trying to salvage this bad situation from getting in and stopping this type of event. >> thats the rarity of it a...

Hours, and then to have that kind of responsibility and be able to isolate yourself in the cockpit, it just tells the traveling public we have a long way to go dont we? >> i think so when you look at it here in the united states that pilot wouldnt be in the front end of one of our commercial airliners because it requires 1500 hours of flight time or greater now, especially after continental expressed up in buffalo. the fact is that with a young pilot like this who has been flying 600 hours isnt ...

Will come out later on. for more, let me bring in captain tom d airline pilot. and anthony davis, aviation expert and pilot. great to have all of you with us tonight. mr. bunn, ill start with you. he had to go through a short series of things to control this aircraft to do it. what do you think happened? >> he didnt have to do a lot of thinking about it. its second nature to control the airplane however you want to do it. just as you said you just dial the numbers in hit it to execute, and thats...