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>> bret: breaking tonight the effort to avoid a disaster involving commercial airlines. there have been several very close calls lately we told you about them yesterday. today the held a safety summit to come up with solutions. mark meredith leads us off from reagan national airport. good evening, mark. >> bret, good evening to you. the top aviation the skies are safe. after a number of near misses and close calls, including one at this airport just last week, the government is also...

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Now there will be enhanced screenings from certain aurpts overseas to the united states. beyond that, how will this affect the rest of us? >> theres going to be a lot more scrutiny. after september 11th, we started to shore up all the holes to the extent that we could. we brought air marshals into the picture. we brought volunteer pilots with federal flight decks. were protecting the interior of the airplane. my fear has been the vulnerability of what can be brought on the cargo. its hard to con...

Back in order. typically, this is for life crisis events and not somebody that is struggling with a severe depression issue and is under treatment. they typically are not in the flight decks. >> i think this is something -- just from the airline passengers standpoint, its a tragedy, and everybody watching this says the next time i get on a flight how can i have assurance that the pilot of my flight doesnt have these same issues? do you look at this and say is there anything else the airlines can...

Can cautiously look at this there are two categories of accident which have remain suborn and persistent with all other reasons for accidents that have been successfully dealt with. one is the loss of control as sort of a euphemism. it implies for some reason or another a flight crew the pilot and co-pilot lost control of the plane. if they lost control of the plane you have to ask what were the factors involved how much was a human factor problem. how much was a computer factor problem. these a...

A320 and a-330 is very much the same. their flight decks are the same. pilots have flown a 320 you can convert to a 330 or the other way around within a few days because servicing so familiar to him. >> we know weather was a factor in both flights. there were thunderstorms at the time and both of these flights were that in inter tropical convergence zone. i one that means something significant too because thunderstorms are somewhat unique in this zone of sorts, is that right? >> you got to be th...

Decks. some engineers from palo alto flew 258 feet, nearly 30 feet beyond the old record, set last year in germany. and thats the "fox watch across america." im john scott in for shepard smith. this is "the fox report." kenyas president is declaring victory over the terrorists who attacked an upscale shopping mall in nairobi, but he says he cannot confirm reports that some of those terrorists are americans. he says three floors of the mall collapsed and some bodies are still trapped in the rub...

With honor. they also gave their lives. listen and hear how these americans faced down their fears and did their duty. clutching their rifles, hearing the bugles in the distance. knowing that waves of enemy fighters would soon be upon them and ships offshore climbing down the ropes into the landing craft knowing some of them would not leave that beach. on the tarmacs and flight decks take taking off, knowing that they might not return to this earth, listening and hearing of their gallantry outnu...

An oncoming cargo plane. investigators stay incident underscored the need for managing fatigue on flight decks. and no apologies from a georgia police chief who handcuffed this little 6-year-old girl. apparently threw a tantrum in school them handcuffed her. police in the town say they tried to calm the child but she was allegedly throwing furniture and other items around the classroom. they say they cuffed her for her own safety. a juvenile complaint accuses the girl of simple battery and dam...