investigation after an internal investigation by lufthansa. wolf? thank you, pamela brown. let s bring in our aviation correspondent richard quest, former faa chief of staff, michael goldfar and tom fuentes. michael, lufthansa now acknowledges they knew of what they themselves describe as lubitz s previous episode of severe depression and knew he had received injections of anti-psychotic medication. earlier they said that he was hiding all of this. lufthansa knew it then. should this person have been a pilot with 149 people on board? the answer is clearly no. how does that happen? how does he get through the system? lufthansa is not a fly-by-night operation. they have the best capability in the world but, once again, we talked about this. the pressure is in the market for expansion and germanwings
this information is going to come out. richard richard i kind of wish you d quit making apologies for ceos and start thinking a little bit like a journalist for a moment. there s nothing wrong with telling people what went on in that plane. it s important to people in the world to know. it s important for the aviation industry to know what happened. but you want the tail to wag the dog. you want the 24-hour news cycle to determine when that information is being given. not the correct because exactly what would happen miles, is what tom fuentes has criticized the ceo for. you ll rush out information that hasn t been verified which then has to be corrected and that s what happens if you rush it out before it has had a chance to be verified. all right. hold on a minute. i want michael to button this up for us. michael, go ahead. weigh in on this debate. well i agree with richard on this. i think that we have no knowledge that any of these likes are in fact going to be
that any rogue organization can threat countries and airlines and they will stop and heed to this, then i don t think there is much hope for the international economy. so i think this is wrong, and i hope they will reconsider soon. the faa? absolutely. a lot will depend if there s a cease-fire and things get back to normal, maybe they will. even without a cease fire we ve been sustaining this for 30 days. nothing is going to happen in the airport. and i think if they look and do their analysis, they will find out that this was a decision to be reversed. mr. ambassador, i want you to stay with us. i have some other questions on the efforts for the cease-fire. that s coming up. michael, thanks very much for joining us. we ll stay on top of the breaking news. there s other news we re following, including here on the ground, diplomats are intensifying the push to end the bloodshed, but there does not, at least for now, does not appear to be any progress in sight. here are the l
airlines. now apparently lufthansa as well. we ll see if air canada and other international carriers do. you re absolutely right, this could be a significant blow to israel s economy if tourism almost completely dries up. stand by. i want to get some analysis now on ways going on. joining us here in jerusalem is the former israeli ambassador to the united states. also joining us on the phone is michael goldfar, the former faa chief of staff. mr. ambassador, first to you, you spent several years in washington. you know the faa doesn t make these kinds of decision easily. are they doing the right thing, erring on the side of caution? well, the short answer is no. not being disrespectful to the faa, but i think this is the wrong dealing with the situation. first of all, el al, which is known for its high standards of security, is flying in and out. i think air canada is still flying. so from the perspective of danger, there is no danger
information? so the government needs to take these steps. whether it s safe or not, it s the perception of risk and the perception is high. clearly covered by mh-17. but nonetheless, it s a time-out, a time to put a more orderly process in place, wolf, to see how one can resume, safely, flights into the airfield. michael, i assume that it s not just the rocket that landed within a mile or so of ben gurion airport, did destroy pretty much that house we ve been showing our viewers that picture, and it s probably not just the threat that was issued by hamas last week warning international carriers don t fly in and out of israel. i assume the faa would only do this if they had some other information that would reinforce that fear, that notion, don t fly to israel. and i ask that question, if based on your experience at the faa. i do believe there s other information they have. i think the backdrop has to be what happened in the ukraine.