and their nanny, smith. the question, why did the pilot, jeff hefner fail to respond to air traffic controllers within 15 minutes of departing, then fly for two hours, presumably on autopilot? the f-16 fighter jets that intercepted hefner s plane could see that he was slumped over and unresponsive. did he suffer a medical emergency? was he rendered unconscious due to a sudden loss of cabin pressure? and were his passengers also incapacitated? no one radioed a mayday call, and the fighter pilots reported the passenger window shades were down. hefner was a retired southwest airlines captain. i knew him personally. reporter: nbc news aviation analyst john cox says hefner should have received a cockpit warning if the cabin was losing pressure. at 14,000 feet, you will automatically get the deployment of oxygen mask. reporter: without oxygen, hypoxia can quickly set in. headaches and nausea, trouble concentrating, then loss of consciousness. for a second day, investigators today hav
dive and the pilot had to turn off the auto pilot, gain control and pull the nose back up. sounds familiar. in one of those cases, the dif triggered the cockpit warning to say don t think, don t think. meaning turn it off and do it yourself. all of that is according to data compiled by nasa, though it does not reveal the airlines. take a look at this graphic from flight radar. it shows all the boeing 737 maxx jets in flight last wednesday, march 6. they re operating all over the world. now look today. they re pretty much flying nowhere except in the united states. and now the president has ordered that is over, too. the fox business network s susan li reporting from the new york newsroom. susan, in the united states, it s southwest and american airlines and they fly some popular routes. they do. we just got a statement from
it s a second hand men s jacket or the finest designer dress the color to you know can where just about anything she says she d like to produce a fashion magazine and have a family something after her modeling career. now from the runway to the sky as we start off today s roundup of culture news from across europe in a helicopter but it s not your usual pilot in the cockpit warning that in our express. on wednesday britain s prince william piloted a rescue helicopter for the first time in years making the twenty five minute flight from kensington palace to the royal london hospital to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of london s air ambulance charity. william learned to fly helicopters ten years ago during his military service and participated in actual rescue missions. wednesday s trip or whatever was purely ceremonial.
the airline says there was no indication of pressurization issues, no cockpit warning was sounded, and oxygen masks did not deploy. two passengers injured by turbulence on a delta flight headed to paris. 271 attempted to land at newark and jfk but strong wind shear forced it to divert to boston. then on the way to boston turbulence injured a flight attendant and one passenger. both were taken to the hospital in boston with minor injuries. overseas, authorities in paris say they ve stopped what could have been a deadly terror attack. this morning a suspect is in custody as investigators unravel his chilling plot against french churches. marcy gonzales has the latest. reporter: a close call in paris. authorities stopping what they say could have been another charlie hebdo type of massacre. a man caught by chance just as investigators say he was about
published by the german tabloid bild. 10:29, air traffic control sees the plane mysteriously descending and calls it. there is no response. the recording revealed an alarm going off in the cockpit warning about the sink rate of the aircraft. moments later the captain yells, for god s sake open the door! the first banging is heard. and people are screaming. 10:35. the plane is now down to 23,000 feet. another alarm goes off. terrain, pull up. the banging continues. the captain shouts, open the damn door! 10:38. the plane is at 13,100 feet. still traveling close to 450 miles an hour and so low, that just two minutes later, at 10:40, a new noise rips through the cabin. aviation analysts suspect it is the right wing scraping a mountainside. the screaming surges and the recording ends.