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And reliability of service. still, there are differences within the industry on how much flying time is required to pilot a commercial airplane. >> you can be done with those ratings in as little as 350 hours of experience. and what happens is when people get out of flight school, and they have their required government ratings, they then move on to the regionals because thats who hires them. >> while major airlines usually pay better, they usually demand that new hires have 1500 flight hours or...

Sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and its filled with fans. >> theres a lot of events going on. theres a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cross the cook inlet and enter anchorage air space. >> the suns hitting on anchorage. all the buildings have the reflections. probably the pretti...

During last weeks nato summit, leaders pledged to increase military spending over the next ten years to meet the organizations spending benchmark, 2% of each countrys gdp. the u.s. spends the most as a share of its economy and has the most armed forces of any nato country by far. which nato country has the second largest armed forces last year? is it france, germany, italy, or

>> 40 miles away, the midnight sun shines on a stadium where a baseball game between the fairbanks gold panners and the anchorage bucks is under way. in addition to baseball tonight, the stadium complex is housing soccer and track and field events and its filled with fans. >> theres a lot of events going on. theres a lot of people outside that day. >> back in the plane, ron and mark cross the cook inlet and enter anchorage air space. >> the suns hitting on anchorage. all the buildings have the r...

Still unclear what caused kal 007 to fly off course, but the investigation did find pilot error likely contributed, if only an attempt was made by the soviets to contact the plane by radio, it would have become clear the aircraft was off course and 269 lives would not have been lost. randi kaye, cnn, new york. having seen what the soviet union was capable of and what vladimir putins russia has said and done, lets dig deeper next into the question of an actual cupbility in all this. well return...

Track? >> reporter: yes, they are confident the weather trends, for now, are going to stay on this track. of course, unusually hot for may and because of the drought-like conditions and like it sped everything up and fire season here started three or four months earlier. many firefighters telling us these are conditions they would see more normally in, lets say, august or september. >> we will pray for a very, very foggy june gloom as they typically have in southern california. thanks, paul. f...

Right there. >> you can see the helicopter there coming into frame. part of the fight against these fires taking place in the air. ted rollins rode along during a training exercise to get a sense and see what it is actually like for the firefighters as they aim at targets on the ground. >> inside the cockpit of a bae-146 air tanker, the firefighter pilots prepare for takeoff. >> okay, clear right. clear left, clear right. >> during the fire, this plane is capable of dropping up to 3,000 gallons ...

Destroyed so far. authorities are questioning two teenagers about two of the fires. and thousands of firefighters continue to fight them. cnns ted rollins hitched a ride in their biggest weapon for firefighting arsenal. >> reporter: inside the cockpit, the two firefighters prepare for takeoff. >> okay, clear right. clear left. >> reporter: during a fire, this plane is capable of dropping up to 3,000 gallons of retardant, as low as 150 feet above the flames. >> what do you actually mean? when t...

It. >> reporter: united airlines flight 1205 from hawaii to california cruising at 33,000 feet on april 25th. the 757s collision alert system goes off. flight 1205 in danger of colliding with a us airways jet. the plane plunged 600 feet in 60 seconds. without warning for passengers like kevin town swsend. >> im looking down the aisle. there are hundreds of people in front of me. people start screaming. noises of things that werent secure falling around. >> reporter: close calls usually come down...

Flight. >> reporter: if something goes wrong, the system will stream live second by second data. >> its not only life saving. it adds a tremendous measure of security for our country. >> several systems transmit data. the technology behind flight is more extensive, sharing information, so much information, critics say it could be difficult to monitor and analyze if widely adopted. right now, flights technologies only installed in 350 planes. each installation costs about $100 now. . norm oom tra...