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liberated a number of towns near kharkiv. the region where they reported the civilian killed has seen several explosions. the cause is missiles and bombs. ukraine has not confirmed nor denied responsibility for the blast. another major development is finland joining nato possibly. they agreed to assist each other militarily should either country face attack. finland shares an 800 mile border with russia. finlands president will contact vladimir putin if that should happen. >> if that w...

Just become such an extremely divisive issue but, again, talking about the mac alan area, first of all, blocking a bus thats legally transporting people, okay, thats kind of a violation of a law but whatever, secondly, again, i have worked the mcalan, texas sector as international pilot doing border patrol in the air, it is not a secure area, there are border patrol agents that do their best but theres constantly drugs and illegal immigrants that come over that border so to protest there especia...

Did practice that during that flight. certainly it seems as though there were some very very interesting things happening even on that outbound flight that this newspaper says could very well indicate that he was trying to test the waters in all this. >> all right. helpful. so mary more information. reuters is saying that the report is out and that it shows that the pilot ignored a dozen contacts from authorities during the ill-fated flight which makes sense hed be ignoring it. but also that he ...

That co-pilot of the doomed germanwings flight committed mass murder. investigators now believe andreas lubitz repeatedly practiced putting the plane into a deadly descent on the flight right before the one that left all 150 people on board dead. the information comes from a preliminary report by the b.e.a. the french agency investigating the march 24th crash. it put forth this graph to explain how lubitz rehearsed. note the red at zero level there. so this is exactly how long and how often lubi...

Its the type of training called crew resource management or crm. originally it was designed to prevent accidents. it empowered everybody. flight attendants, dispatchers, other pilots, any time they saw another pilot doing what they thought was a mistake, they had immunity and were actually encouraged to report that. now that was primarily an accident prevention program but perhaps we need to revisit this training and include behavioral disorders also because clearly the people that are in the co...

Our security measures have been used against protecting people. >> peter, the chance of a pilot doing something like this it has happened to other incidents, silk air, there is a far greater chance of a deranged passenger or a passenger with evil intent rushing the cockpit door than there is you know the one or two people on the other side of the cockpit door doing harm to the aircraft. >> absolutely. and, you know the arming of the -- of the -- the arming of the cockpit door has been enormously...

There will be a quick reaction to this. malaysian airlines adopted this procedure after the loss of flight 70 because the theory on the loss of that airplane was suicide by the captain. to restore public confidence, they introduce the scheme last year. but i expect the widespread adoption of it very quickly. >> richard, some people are looking at the cockpit door. one does have to admit though that since 9/11, securing the cockpit door has made a tremendous amount of sense and in fact, the poten...

150 feet or so below the surface of the water, that could take some time. they want to milk sure they pick up all the debris on the surface they can. and then look for the fuselage which probably still contains many, if not most of the victims. and looking for the tail section of the plane, which will hold those all-important black boxes, cockpit voice and flight data recorder, in particular will have about 1,000 points of telemetry data recorded. it will tell investigators what condition the pl...

>> is it possible what dr. diehl suggests? >> possible to turn that nob to the left. i cant imagine a pilot doing that, though, to be honest with you. >> even in a smoke-filled cockpit, even in a moment of -- >> even under those circumstances, i cant imagine a guy doing that. i think too he would probably communicate and that had not happened either. so i dont think so. >> all right, craig has been in a simulator for 777 cockpit. lets go now to craigs report. >> one of the aspects of the disappe...

>> is it possible what dr. diehl suggests? >> possible to turn that nob to the left. i cant imagine a pilot doing that, though, to be honest with you. >> even in a smoke-filled cockpit, even in a moment of -- >> even under those circumstances, i cant imagine a guy doing that. i think too he would probably communicate and that had not happened either. so i dont think so. >> all right, craig has been in a simulator for 777 cockpit. lets go now to craigs report. >> one of the aspects of the disappe...