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Malaysia airlines has seen or spotted is something maybe from a maintenance, something that identifies it as one of their aircraft. >> thats what we dont know yet. >> we dont know what it is to say conclusively but my sources in malaysia tell me that the reason that the prime minister used the word conclusively was that was what his people in france told him. >> the investigators. >> well, the dca -- the dca told back to kuala lumpur conclusively. thats the word they used so something in there t...

Security contacts. what makes analysts so certain this was a deliberate act of some kind? >> i think certainty might be strong. let me tell you, just putting it in perspective. airplanes dont go missing. i know we spent a lot of time on airplane accidents. they are a rarity. in most instances, you can find out what happened relatively soon whether its pilot error or something with the airplane. any good investigation will start from the premise that something went terribly amiss and that might i...

California. in montanas glacier national park an elite firefighting team is taking command of that stubborn fire. fast-moving flames have scorched nearly six square miles of that popular vacation spot. that has visitors scrambling often, just moments to spare. >> i think if we would have been there another five minutes, it would have been too late. >> another concern for fire crews there, grizzly bears. officials say the flames are forcing them out of the wilderness, making an already dangerou...

Investigators are trying to figure out what caused a marine aircraft to crash land and explode into flames killing one marine and injures others. that happened during a training exercise in hawaii. jim joins me live. what caused it to go down? do we know more about that? >> its still very early. going to take a investigators some time to figure out why this osprey airlines that take off and land like a helicopter crashed killing one marine and injures all on board some of them seriously. the fir...

Will be an issue of restructuring at amtrak. people use it. if you want to deal with the traffic issue you have to have more in the area of rail. people need to have confidence in rail when they pay their ticket north of boston i use it occasionally when you get on and pay your money, you want to make sure youre safe. >> absolutely. >> i know national transportation safety board is looking at this. it appears as if its probably pilot error -- pilot error, the engineers error. however, you heard ...

Japan, the latest air scare in a region rattled by aviation disasters. >> pretty scary. when you think about some of these cases, so clearly pilot error. in san francisco, pilot error. tiaiwan taiwan, pilot error. it was a very bad weather. >> yeah japan has had record rainfall in recent days erin. however, at the time of this crash, it was not raining at the hiroshima airport and there were right winds which is wi theyre looking at the pilot, the trujiktry of the plane when it went down. and we...

It hit the runway and just exploded. seems like the wheels broke. >> investigators are looking into early reports the airliner may have hit an antenna on the runway. airbus is also investigating. ashiana is the same airline that suffered a disastrous landing in san francisco in 2013. flight 214s pilot botched the approach and landing of this boeing 777, killing three people and injured 187 others. the crash raised serious safety questions about pilot training and procedure and asias booming airl...

About, the founders of virgin galactic revealing that the ntsb likely to blame pilot error. one pilot was killed another injured when the aircraft went down in the mojave desert. branson now says his plan to make space tourism a realty has been delayed at least one year, but his engineers are working day and night to build a replacement craft. now to that hacking story. hackers shaking down cops around the country. you may not have heard about this. how are they doing it? with unprotected comp...

America. regionals are sounding the alarm forced to reduce service because they dont have enough qualified pilots to fly their planes. >> its not an industry you can say hey, i want to be a pilot and do a little training and end up being a pilot. you have to work a significant amount of time and build a significant amount of flight hours to qualify and it costs a significant amount of money. >> reporter: there are several ways pilots can get the training they need. some go to flight school, some...

Time. that used to be enough to go straight from embry riddle to a commercial airline but after flight 3407 crashed in 2009 that transition became much harder. pilot error played a major role in that crash in buffalo and many of the families of the 49 people on board have pushed for some of the changes were seeing today. including raising the minimum requirement of flight hours to 1500. but there are fears some of these requirements may be weakened in order to meet the demand for pilots. >> ther...