the plant and it needsreactors. president zelenskyy says its government is not taking any chances. translator: we are doing everything to prevent an emergency scenario, but it depends not only on our state. international pressure is needed had will force the occupiers to immediately withdraw from the territory of the zaporizhzhia 234 nuclear power 34rplant. iaea must act faster. disconnection is raising concerns that moscow may be trying to divert electricity from zaporizhzhia to occupied parts of ukraine. the u.n. nuclear watchdog has also been pushing for inspectors to go to the plant. the director is optimistic that it may soon happen.
nuclear power plants require off site power to function safely, to cool the reactor, to cool the spent fuel there. any cut off of that power could potentially cause an enormous crisis at the facility. zaporizhzhia was taken over by russia in march early in the war, and moscow has controlled the site, still run by ukrainian workers, ever since. on thursday, in his nightly address, president zelensky called on russia to withdraw. translation: i want to assure all ukrainians we are doing - everything to prevent an emergency scenario. international pressure is needed that will force the occupiers to immediately withdraw from the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. the iaea and other international organisations must act faster. every minute the russian military stays at the nuclear plant risks
vol sfrrnlt whatever i don t get my way dem clim state it s an elusive definition. mime el stee, i m not coatly convinced that fpt if the government would be dealing with things like the open joyed, crisis and june gun lit. but play out that national emergency scenario for us. what s the time frame in which the government does get back on track? it so stensably starts dealing with all of these issues given and how does it play out the government, which wanting to do wa wael, to deal with the environmental crisis, to deal with the environmental issues,
individual on the plane that would cause not an emergency descent but a rapid descent, no radio call and a flight that continues onto the mountains. none of that ends up in the realm of a typical emergency scenario. pilot error will be on the list and some sort of deliberate act here. on that point, tom fuentes, terrorism, they really don t have a clue right? no they don t know if it s that or not until they get the recorders and they know what the discussions were going on in the cockpit with the crew and where did the flight data recorders go. it does not look like an explosion or rocket attack because that causes bigger pieces raining down on the ground. this looks like a high-speed impact into the side of a mountain. philip what are you hearing from your officials in france? here s what our reporters know on the ground. this is french 24 tv? yes, french television. that was the domestic
8501. here is what we know. right before this crash, the pilot contacted air traffic control and requested a change en route to avoid a storm. the controllers let him change course but not his altitude because reportedly there were other planes in the area. after that they lost communication entirely. combined pilot and co-pilot of 8501 have flown more than 80,000 hours. nbc news aviation analyst john cox joins us the ceo of safety operating systems. thanks for joining us today. my pleasure. good to be here. let s start with a very basic question people often wonder about, whether they re passengers or following a story like this. walk us through what the pilot is doing and what s going through their mind as they enter that emergency scenario those last few moments we know about that i just described. well we don t really know yet what occurred. we know this much. we know that the monsoon season