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Cancelled orders from two key airlines airbus to finally discontinue the model. its the end of a rather short era barely a decade after the worlds biggest cost and jet first took to the air its maker is calling it a day airbus had hoped the a three eighty she would squeeze out boeing seven four seven and revolutionize air travel and it was popular among passengers who gave it high marks for comfort space quite right but airlines were cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes a...

And fill an aircraft that can seat about eight hundred or more passengers you first have to sell those tickets and i was very difficult for for those few airlines who actually bought the a three eighty and of course it is because of its size its a four engine aircraft and those four engines their very first day they use an awful lot of fuel and that is very costly so a lot of airlines rather switched to smaller also long haul airline jets which now only have two engines and theyre much more suff...

Passengers who gave it high marks for comfort space to quiet right but airlines were cautious about committing to the costly double decker planes and in the end they just werent willing to pay the muss of price tag to own the flying behemoth. at the companys annual press conference and to lose france airbus c.e.o. tom enders acknowledged the plane with. what were seeing is. a large four engine aircraft and that is what it is i mean theres been speculation . for years that we were ten years to cr...

Has given you clues as to what kind of skill level the mechanic had. im not sure whether you can see this but this is showing the -- what have you learned from this? what do i bleen from the videos? >> several things. first of all, he took a twin turbo-prop plane. the easiest thing to fly or at least what you start on, theres debate on b whats the easiest thing to fly. but you start out on a single engine aircraft where the landing gear does not retract. you take off, only one engine. all you ne...

Plane. i dont think this was the first flight certainly. and the communications back and forth with the tower at one point asking if there were other pilots on the line, asking about what kind of chop he would get into over the mountain areas. this went on for quite a period of time and it did emso liseem e air traffic controller had some familiarity with them. so as the picture becomes, you know, more and more flushed out, this is someone who was familiar with the airport. you know, you almost ...

Piloting a small single engine aircraft. he was the only person on board the plane and police say they received no distress calls. the ntsb is investigating the crash. he retired after 16 seasons with the blue jays and philadelphia phillies, winning more than 200 games and two cy young awards and owns the only no-hitter in national league postseason history, the blue jays releasing the statement that the organization is grief stricken by the loss of one of the franchises greatest and even better...

Legislation so they cannot get firearms. >> it would have prevented the sale of the firearm to the texas gunman. there are provisions that could allow flexibility allowing military officials to report a broad range of offenses. this morning, shock and sadness around major league baseball following the news pitcher roy halladay died in a plane crash. he was 40, leaves behind a wife and two children. he was piloting a small single engine aircraft. he was the only person on board the two-seater pla...

Convict domestic violence and the like. if we can address that and close those gaps, i think that would be a big improvement. >> there is no evidence that a bump stock was used by the texas gunman. we are learning that the senate judiciary committee will hold a hearing on bump stocks in response to the las vegas massacre last month. ten victims from the texas church shooting are still in critical condition. the families of those killed will receive $6,500 each to cover funeral expenses from a ...

>> jon: a fox news alert. a little bit of good news out of phoenix, arizona. if youre in a single engine aircraft and you lose your end and for whatever reason, youll be on flat ground and that is generally what happens. at the pilot set it down there on the edge of some kind of a field, as you can see. also some irrigation gutters, which may have gotten in the way. the pilot did walk away, as we understand it. no word on what caused him or her to set down there, but a good day if you can walk a...

Them are still missing? >> well its very difficult to tell from with such patchy information. of but it would suggest that the aircraft has broken up in some way or another. and its possible it could have happened in flight. but even more likely it happened on impact with the sea. and you know in these situations one cant really speculate with any degree of certainty until the black boxes are recovered but, you know in the thunderstorm conditions that you have in this area it is possible that th...