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Panel, bring in mary schiavo, former inspector general for the department of transportation, david gallo of the woods hull ocean graphic institution and cnn aviation analyst les abend. les a fire on board, how serious is that, as a pilot how big a concern is that for you and do you do? >> its got to be the worst scenario on an airplane. >> really? >> yeah. because you have no control over the situation for the most part except to be able to attempt to extinguish the fire. if it happened in the f...

>> its done electronically through switches. but you would manually have to go through that process to do it. theres a couple of freon bottles. starting the prosays shuts down fans all sorts of things so it stops circulation down in that compartme compartment. if you did smell the smoke first thing would be to put on your oxygen mask which includes the goggles. you have to use a different mike switch on your yoke to communicate. its a lot of confusion. >> as a pilot do you have an immediate sens...

>> i want to go back to our panel, bring in mary schiavo, former inspector general for the department of transportation, david gallo of the woods hull ocean graphic institution and cnn aviation analyst les abend. les a fire on board, how serious is that, as a pilot how big a concern is that for you and do you do? >> its got to be the worst scenario on an airplane. >> really? >> yeah. because you have no control over the situation for the most part except to be able to attempt to extinguish the f...