take a real hard look at how much we are paying and training and investing in pilot safety as we move on in the future. this is going to it start affecting us in the world in 5 or 10 years. and perhaps how much we are screening pilots and are they ever to be left alone in the cockpit. thank you john. the co-pilot has a connection to the united states. we are learning that he partly trained in a flight school in phoenix in 2008. we have more on the ground and live report coming up. we want to hear from you as well. this was described as a deliberate crash. should a pilot of only 600 hours allow to fly solo in the cockpit? here in the united states we have different requirements as far as who is solo or not in the
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three-page medical report from the family physician of accused killer george zimmerman, and it could become an important piece of evidence here because the day after martin was shot and killed, zimmerman visited his doctor. according to the records, he had a closed fracture of his nose and two black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head, and a minor back injury as well. martin savidge is joining us live from the cnn center in atlanta. martin, these developments seem to bolster zimmerman s argument that he killed trayvon martin in self-defense. that could be argued in two different directions, zoraida. the attorney that represents the family of trayvon martin is going to say it it doesn t necessarily prove that because what we don t know, despite the medical information that s coming now out of the discovery documents and this is all the information that the prosecution is now bringing forward that they have filed and must make available to the defense team. this i
new york killing all onboard. an investigation found the pilots to be undertrained and overtired. victims families rallied together to fight for better pilot safety rules only to see house republicans vote against them. it was all part of the faa reauthorization bill. in it an amendment that would have gotten in the way of new rules on pilot fatigue and pilot training. with corwin slipping in the polls the republicans needed a, as you could say, hail mary. well on friday speaker of the house john boehner offered one up. he announced the amendment was dropped from the bill and gave corwin the credit for all of it. cheap political trick? joining me now the washington bureau chief of the buffalo news. he s been all over this story. good to have you with us. is this a race about medicare? i mean, is this the focal point of what people are thinking about when they go to the polls
overtired. victims families rallied together to fight for better pilot safety rules only to see house republicans vote against them. it was all part of the faa reauthorization bill. in it an amendment that would have gotten in the way of new rules on pilot fatigue and pilot training. with corwin slipping in the polls the republicans needed a, as you could say, hail mary. well on friday speaker of the house john boehner offered one up. he announced the amendment was dropped from the bill and gave corwin the credit for all of it. cheap political trick? joining me now the washington bureau chief of the buffalo news. he s been all over this story. good to have you with us. is this a race about medicare? i mean, is this the focal point of what people are thinking about when they go to the polls tomorrow in new york-26? it s really a race, ed, about a couple different things.