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Fccs plan two thumbs up. mean there are pros here. im open to the cons. commercial airline pilot patrick smith, and paul headson, president of flyersrights.org. paul, let me begin with you. youre the closest person we can find who doesnt actually entirely despise this idea. so tell me, someone who has been on five planes this week, why this idea may not be entirely insane. >> well, of course, the primary concern is safety. assuming that is satisfied, the next concern is privacy. everyone has bee...

Pictures happened earlier. i want to get to patrick smith, who is a pilot air travel columnist and author of cockpit confidential. thank you for joining us. as we await this press conference lets talk a little bit here. you have flown into this airport a number of times i understand. what is it like? >> i have. ive flown into san francisco many times. you know, i dont think the airport is going to turn out to have much or anything to do with this. the arrival pattern that they were flying, the r...

Could. its unlikely but it could happen. we just dont know. that is something to look at and so are a lot of other things. meanwhile, one thing here --. >> thanks. >> -- a korean airliner. >> patrick smith, thank you very much. we appreciate it. well keep you on. stand by. i just want to update our viewers and tell them these are pictures obviously earlier closer to the time when this happened. we want to tell you there is a news conference that will happen at any moment in san francisco. at tha...

The 50, 60, 70 people who are still unaccounted for, looking at the aircraft, looking at the damage to the aircraft would frankly not surprise me but the fact that so many people did get off, 190 people basically got off as walking wounded it is really quite an achievement as patrick smith is saying earlier. this sort of incident is what is known in the industry as a survivable accident. you expect when the plane lands and there is an impact, you expect that there will be a large number of peopl...

0 provide additional information. are there any other questions? the question is, is this a relative new aircraft? this is a boeing triple 7. i mentioned boeing will likely be one of the parties to our investigation and we work very closely with those who have expertise to bring that to the investigation. the triple 7 has been around for a while. carrying several hundred passengers. well certainly be looking at everything when we get there. we have not determined what the focus of the investigat...

Belt? weve been doing that for 50 years, and those things take like five minutes and nobody is paying attention. >> what that briefing is a bunch of legal fine print come to life. i mean, theres a lot of good information there but its so weighed down with extra language that its hard to pick up. my favorite one is tampering with, disabling or destroying a lavatory spoke detector. doesnt tampering cover the whole thing. theres so much extra wording in everything that comes over that announcement....

0 >>brian: id rather go down that spiral rather than single file. >>steve: i was actually evacuated off an airplane where the front wheels broke off. >>brian: just you? >>steve: no. me and 185 other people after a trip from hawaii. >>brian: no wonder you see ablow every day. >>gretchen: maybe thats in my headlines. o.j. simpson due back in court today to plead for a new trial. lawyers call it a hail mary. he claims his reputation is so bad his conviction should be reversed and a new trial ordere...

You? >> never. >> bill: okay. so that day, september 14th, that was it. you never heard from anybody. >> that was it. >> bill: all right, ms. smith. sorry for your loss. is heather and the two children okay? >> yes. i assume they are fine. they are still in holland in the hague. >> bill: if they need anything you let us know. we want to point out that sean hannity did help mrs. smith with some of her expenses in the situation. >> because they told me that i was not part of the immediate family s...

On the story. joining us now from miami, the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com. mr. goldberg. and you say? >> before i comment on the media, that interview was disturbing with mrs. smith. if president obama hillary clinton allege susan rice didnt tell her face to face it was about the video. that is beyond outrageous. its one thing to lie to the press and the american people in general, but to tell a story like that, that was obviously not true and by that point they had to know it wasnt true, th...

You? >> never. >> bill: okay. so that day, september 14th, that was it. you never heard from anybody. >> that was it. >> bill: all right, ms. smith. sorry for your loss. is heather and the two children okay? >> yes. i assume they are fine. they are still in holland in the hague. >> bill: if they need anything you let us know. we want to point out that sean hannity did help mrs. smith with some of her expenses in the situation. >> because they told me that i was not part of the immediate family s...