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And thats very important. >> true. and even though i might be a little more intimate with the systems on the airplane, this is not an intimate part of my knowledge. >> as a pilot -- >> this is not a place that i view. a friend of mine after being on the airplane for four years and now retired said hes never been down there. >> is that right? >> because theres no real need for us to be down there. theres one circumstance that i would go down there and thats simply after an incident theres a diagr...

Families of the passengers. distraught relatives are dragged away by authorities after begging the media for help and the search narrows. new details on why efforts are now focused at the far end of the southern corridor in a remote area of a vast ocean. im wolf blitzer. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin with new clues that are emerging right now in the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. a senior u.s. official says a rout...

Suggest. new video captured on airport security cameras show the heartstopping moment asiana 214 crashed this july. it hit a sea wall and did a 360 before coming to rest. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: new details about what happened inside the cockpit. the pilot flying told investigators he was uncomfortable landing visually. without an instrument approach to guide him. he was a trainee on the 777 but had substantial experience in other aircraft. on top of that, he didnt completely understand the ...

Falling if more flights are grounded at major hubs in new york and philadelphia. take a look at all of the flights in the air right now. more than 3,000 planes over the united states. but so far, more than 100 flights are canceled and that number expected to get worse as the morning progresses. rene marsh is at reagan national airport outside washington with more. >> reporter: good morning. you know, foot traffic is picking up here at reagan national airport, but its all about this, its all abou...

Affect on the flight system. >> reporter: with just hours before thanksgiving, delays and cancellations adding up quickly as the storm pull he wills some of the nations busiest airports. on average, one in ten flights go through new york airports. >> with 80% of our airplanes touching the congested northeast, were acutely aware things are go wrong quickly. >> those planes are trying to land. >> reporter: some flights circled airports in the south on tuesday until they could land. low clouds and ...

The situation room right now. she has been doing a fact check for us. what are you learning? it could be frightening. >> this is a story that is generating a lot of buzz online. the headlines of a man hacking into an aircraft flight system. we looked into this a little further to find out if this is a real concern to our nations aviation system. imagine your plane taking off but suddenly the onboard computer is now under the control of someone on the ground. using a smart phone app. that scenari...

Until we do, and we get the airlines to demand it, we will have incidents like we read in the "new york times" today. >>shepard: tell us what the system needs? >>guest: in the air, we need a free flight system that lets airplanes go where they want did go without putting them in line like a highway. the system they have will computerize it. it will be satellite based. on the ground at kennedy or ohare, there are systems that can monitor where planes are. those are closer to fruition. some are in...

The cloud drifts over europe and upper atmosphere and makes the climate colder and wetter than usual. martha: if this happens, a real possibility it could impact our international flight system. >> well, they are worried about that, ash up in the atmosphere gets into the jet engines, and clogs the engines and the engines will flame out. and they are worried about the international travel and the effects on international travel. martha: we talked about 1783 and what happened then, and obviously t...

The chinese city of guam joe all you have to do is fasten your seat belt take a look then the automated flight system takes over the electrically powered drone can take a single passenger out a twenty three minute flight at one hundred kilometers an hour last year dubai in the united arab emirates announced plans to cooperate with the company behind the drone a hang to develop self driving taxis to service the desert city. might take some getting used to well thats it for your business if you wa...

Thanks to all. mary let me start with you. the entire flight system is based on machines able to check for bombs. tonight we find out the bombs can beat the checks. >> thats right. one, we think that theyve had additional testing capabilities by using the very equipment that we purchased, the united states encouraged other countries to purchase after 9/11 to prevent bombs in the future and the plastic explosives, etc. the mo has changtd, ever since the underwear bomber in 2009, we thought perhap...