conducted air strikes in the last several days against isil targets. in eastern iraq. major general bob scales is retired and a fox news analyst. i see you smiling there, what is going on in a couple of things, my military friends and i are amazed that 35 years after the american embargo with iran, iran is flying our fighter planes with skill and dropping bombs on isis targets. this is the middle east and how can you make it up? it is fairly clears that the iranians are doing them under iraqi air force control in the province away from the flight patterns from the strikes that the u.s. and coalition forces are making from bag dead to
see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. we re back live from jerusalem. there s huge concern right now about flights over war zones after the downing of the malaysian airliner over ukraine. tom foreman is taking a closer look at some of the most dangerous places to fly. tom, what are you seeing? yeah, look at flight patterns around the world and look at the places that the faa says that u.s. carriers either should not fly or should have extreme caution about flying. there are two key reasons why. the first has to do with what we just saw in ukraine. great big robust missile systems that are capable of hurts planes that are flying up
to very sophisticated missiles like high altitude anti-aircraft missiles, do you have an increased risk. i want to put it in perspective. it s still much less than the risk that we face when we re dealing with an area that has an insecure airport where there are many more different kinds of threats to aircraft. while i think obviously if you re flying over syria, you re flying over lebanon where hezbollah has missiles, you want to bear that in mind. the larger issue will be those parts of the world where the airport itself is situated in a dangerous location. and you make a good point. i don t want to exaggerate the threat to viewers either. there are threats and there are threats. clearly in some of these war zones, there s a much greater threat than elsewhere. in light of what we learned after the situation in eastern ukraine, some airlines are in fact changing flight patterns and avoid that area now. what would you recommend to americans who are taking an international flight in t
of the families and friends, the passengers involved, they need to find the physical wreckage. now as for this operation, angus houston, the man responsible for coordinating in the building behind me, issuing a statement saying that the search continue in earnest. that the ocean shield equipped with the american towed pinger locator s scouring the waters, trying to find natumore signals more information. and there will be three plate patterns flight patterns dropping buoys into the water to try to get more information needed to narrow down this potential search field. now we also know that the british vessel the hms echo, is in the area. we know it has sensitive audio-detecting equipment on board. we also know that it s capable of mapping the sea floor.
we love the u.s. navy as part of this effort. we know this is an international effort. can you give us an idea just logistically how that is coordinated, how the information breakdown gets to you so that you know the precious information and then how you coordinate the search. we know it s being done by grids. sure thing. and you probably know australia is in the lead in the southern sector. those are planes based out of perth. we re still flying out of kuala lumpur and those efforts being led by malaysia and our p3 orion is flying a southern search box. what s encouraging is this international cooperation and right now australia is flying out of perth. of course the u.s. navy, china has planes there flying. so that way it s well coordinated, communication, the flight patterns, the sectors, so that we can rest our planes when