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Strikes against civil aeration? >> jim, i think it was the prudent thing to do, and i think they probably would have done it anyway. im sure the message was not lost that when a missile hits a plane, even if its kind of a rarity, its horrible consequence. so i think that in a sense the malaysia airline incident must have reinforced the importance of being better safe than sorry. >> no question. i think travelers would appreciate that. in fact, lots of questions in eastern ukraine why other airli...

And because its considered a safe corridor, our flight planning systems will look at those opportunities and select a flight path to follow. in view of mh-17, weve taken a second look at that and one of our processes now is to go back and say, regardless of what the civil aviation organization says is a safe corridor, we need to put in another layer of protection to say what else is going on in the region and could there be a potential for another situation like flight mh-17 and in which case we...

Days ago threatening an attack on the airport. all u.s. airline flights in and out of israel canceled. one delta flight turned around mid-air. the flight path shows the plane bound for tel aviv with 295 passengers on board was diverted to pairs. the u.s. government taking no chances 56 last weeks deadly missile attack on malaysia flight 17. and after this. rocket remnants found in a demolished house just one mile from tel avivs ben gurion airport. the faa alerting airlines even before it could s...

Here it is. delivering many of the victims to relative safety. they are being held in a factory to await a flight to the netherlands. heres what else we know. also on the train were the planes black boxes that were handed over by the pro-russian rebels who controlled that crash site. we have a chilling new image from the pentagon. this depicts the flight path seen in yellow. the path of the surface-to-air missile, thats what you see in green. the point of impact and the site where the plane ex...

You. its not that significantly less money or more money to go around or not go around. its a matter of awareness. its a matter of communication and understanding the level of risk involved. to assess risk, you have to know all those possible hazards and outcomes. >> this is about going to and stopping there and landing there. there might be flielts flight unable to land there. were talking about rockets flying out of gaza and into israel. >> if you know the flight path, it specifically avoids g...

Were following this investigate very closely and this one major story to another one were watching today, airlines quickly responding after rebels apparently shot down malaysia airlines flight 17, rerouted flights over safer areas. so some are surprised when malaysia airlines changed the planes flight path from ukraine to war-attorntorn syria, anothe dangerous route. youll hear how the airline responded. stay with me. moderate to severe crohns disease is tough,

Their reasoning is the rocket launched from gaza struck a mile away from ben-gurion airport today. israel is urging the united states to stop the ban. the white house says it will not overrule the faa. this comes days after the malaysia jet was shot down over a war zone in eastern ukraine. all 298 people on board were killed in a horrific way. there are dangerous fly zones around the world. shockingly many passenger jets fly through them every single day. so why arent they off limits for flights...

>> the technology does exist. it exists on a whole host of military aircraft. what the israelis have done clearly makes sense for their conditions surrounded by enemies and routinely trying to conduct routine and what i would call commercial and civil activities. so they have made the decision because it makes sense for them. clearly what this indicates is that when you are traveling over in extremist territory there clearly this this possibility. could this technology work? it could. but the co...

This accident. the airplane left about 8:20 in the evening, and 11 or 12 minutes later, the event occurred. >> im captain david mclane. he was with eastland airlines and i was the primary witness to the accident when it blew up. at the time of the accident we were over long island about 16,000 feet, headed out over the water. it was dusk. it was around 8:30 in the evening. you could see a long ways, a good 50, 60, 70 miles or more. i saw this flight departing out of jfk with a bright light, kind...

Have enforcement which they dont, and the new convention -- >> no countries are really ever going to give them that. >> its high time that we had such an entity. >> i agree. >> whether its iko or something else. we have two major incidents that have cried out for this. >> miles, how do you know when youre buying a ticket on an airplane whether the airline that youre looking at buying at is, you know, making these decisions with extreme caution? there have been reports, air france, air china, wer...