perform tests when you initially certify the airplane with a particular airline, david can attest to this. and the answer is you can actually get off of this airplane in probably 90 seconds. wow. and there are requirements, you know, when each airline accepts this particular each particular airplane into their fleet that they have to be able to perform it at that particular time with engines with exits blocked and so on and so forth. so i mean i commend the flight attendants, the entire cockpit crew for doing what they were supposed to do. this is a training event that we do every time in recurrent training. you know, probably once in a career if that at all will you ever have to perform an evacuation as a pilot or even as a flight attendant. and i commend them. it seems to me that it went off just about flawlessly. yes, we ve got some injuries, but i think these injuries are attributable to the slide escape routes. david soucie, when you look
why do they think that plane vanished? they re mystified. they have the case open, they re still looking at the cockpit crew, the regular crew and the passengers. they re not ruling it out? they re not ruling it out, they re not ruling it in, maybe something in the cargo caused the extinguishers to go on, they re still not certain that plane, when it made the u-turn when it was on its way to china, which appeared like it was going to go back to the kuala lumpur airport, that it made that giant horseshoe just bulk the independence knees said the radar didn t show it doesn t indicate that it didn t go across the island of smarumatrs. we have more information to digest, much more coming up, right after this quick break.
if there s a major mechanical failure, they are not going to continue the flight. they are going to get to where are they can get it the safest and quickest manner. that would be maintenance based. it could have been deliberate and for a good reason. thank you. that s exactly right. we don t know why. we can speculate from aviation as to why he may have done that. phil 500 plus days after the fact. if this had been done deliberately for a cause or by some person with some right, wouldn t we have heard by now? i think we would have for a couple reasons. the first is in the digital age with the passengers all the cockpit crew their digital trail. facebook twitter, interviews what they told family friends, co-workers. combining it with the fact there s not a claim. if you commit an act of
powerful enough to temporarily blind a pilot. some have even been hospitalized with burned corneas. if your sole purpose is to disable the cockpit crew by shining that light and blinding them that really is in my book attempted homicide. reporter: in addition the faa says pilots reported 23 other incidents around the country that same night. the number of reported laser strikes on airplanes has soared in the past few years, increasing ten times overall according to faa data. thousands of laser strikes are reported nationwide annually. last year nearly 4,000. there are no known cases of a laser causing a plane to crash, but it s a worst case scenario pilots say is possible. if this occurs, the pilot s not going to be able to see all the instrumentation to be able to control and manage the
way. they are more at the person himself and what could be behind him. they are saying they are not going to call it suicide. one of the officials here saying and a lot of other people are saying that it looks more like mass slaughter right in the heart of europe. thank you, greta. thank you, greg. as an aside the prosecutor would call it voluntarily manslaughter but i would call it murder. that s what i would call it greg, thank you. as we said french prosecutors confirming the 2 7-year-old co-by will the barricaded himself in the cockpit as the pilot pounded on that locked door for security. cockpit video explains. this code pad provides increased security levels and used to not phi cockpit crew of request for entry or to open the door in case of confirmed in compass station of both pilots. the buzzer in the cockpit, rear of the overhead panel provides an audible warning to notify the cockpit crew.