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Because they had five crashes in five years. it turns out they werent related to each other. but its an issue,is since it was a pilots union, theres a shortage of pilots but the airline needs to watch out for the fact that if they start cutting pilots they might have problems regrouping this is worldwide, theres such a high demand for pilots especially in china and other places the pacific rim area. i dont know pilots are in hot demand right now. >> mary, lets remind everybody what were talking ...

There in the south of france they have a lot of experience in dealing with the mountainous terrain. and due to the fact that youll have a lot of helicopters there for instance that help skiers. that get in trouble there all the time. so usually there is a pretty good net of rescue and recovery of helping people and of getting to the crash site as fast as possible. >> fred stand by for us if you would. were showing the flight path there on the screen. well pull it up for you, it shows that the fl...

And the flight would have descended to a breathable altitude below 14,000 feet. now, if thats the case pilots were executing an emergency descent, then they would stay on the track that they had been programming the flight to follow. the flight plan. if the airplane was not under the pilots control or if the airplane was out of control, it probably would have veered off of the intended flight path. so it remains to be seen where the impact site is in relation to the program flight track of the p...

Off. at this point on the flight track that i have seen no it didnt. the flight path that it was using was a normal path. there have been some -- theres been some union action with i think it was french air traffic controllers that may have had something to do with it. i dont know. thats speculation on my part. there has been some french air traffic control union action so that might have e planed the delay in the beginning of the flight. theres certainly no indication they had reported anything...

Heres the latest on this mornings crash of the airliner. all 150 onboard are believed dead. the airbus a-320 crashed into the foothills of the french alps this morning. we learned moments ago there was no distress call from the pilots. at the helm of the barcelona flight had logged more than 6,000 flight hours on this particular model of plane. tom foreman is in washington now with a closer look at that doomed planes flight path. >> heres what we know. experience pilot onboard. a plane that wasn...

Where the crash site is. were talking about marseille, nice, those are airports that handle a320s very frequently. they are all very close to where this incident occurred. >> earlier during "morning joe," they had some of the aviation experts on and said if at 38,000 feet, which it was somewhere in this vicinity if they had two engines go out at that point, in theory experts say they should have been able to make it to one of these airports. obviously, they didnt for some reason reason. add that...

Room for families has been set up at the airport where the plane was supposed to land. we have a picture of the actual plane that crashed. this is a picture that was taken in 2014. again, a picture of the plane that crashed right now in the south of france. this plane was traveling from barcelona to dusseldorf. and the debris is spread far and wide. and were also focused right now carefully on the rate of descent of this plane and what that might mean in terms of what happened. were also focused...

Unusual they would go out over water, if youre routing particularly since when you look at the route, look where they were they would have been on a straight in to dusseldorf. that doesnt concern me i dont think that was necessarily an indication they had strayed from their flight path. >> were getting a statement here now from airbus the makers of the a-320. that was involved in this crash. we know that the aircraft the specific one was 24 years old. the statement from airbus which is based in ...

Went down near morearseille in the south of france. this was in the apparently in the middle of their flight path. they were going from dusen dofr to barcelona. the big question is whether or not they might have had some sort of in-flight incident that might have caused them to decrease altitude. i want to talk about the airline, its one that ive flown a lot in the past. because of course as you know i usually live in germany. its a direct subsidiary of lufthansa. when i say that lufthansa in th...

Getting the aircraft under control once you know theres an emergency. the priority for the crew is look to the nearest diversion. it was at 38,000 feet when it started its descent and took eight minutes to descend to the point of impact. the speed was bleeding to below 200 knots, now if you take that over eight miles thats 40 knot nautical miles. it appears that the aircraft did not try to turn off its original flight path. if you rewind to 40 nautical miles, two perfect air fields that the airc...