Pilot Saying News Today

>> good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is monday, august 1st. john berman is off and john avalon is here with us this morning. >> good morning. >> great to you have. we begin with major news just n cnn reporting that nancy pelosi will be visiting taiwan after all despite chinas stern warnings for her not to go. this comes from u.s. and taiwanese sources. its not clear which day pelosi will be visiting as her asia trip gets under way here. we previously reported...

amid pilot shortages. the efforts under way now to keep travelers moving amid the summer travel spike. hopefully no alarm for you today because it is the weekend. it is saturday, june 18th. thank you for being with us. >> always great to be with you christi. we begin with new fears that the u.s. economy is headed towards a recession. >> yesterday marked the end of a rocky week for wall street after the federal reserve announced the largest interest rate hike in decades. the dow close...

Surrounded by authorities. he called out to air traffic control to let them know there was an issue. he said on the faa call that we heard from a local affiliate that the right wheel, there was a problem with that. the thats why you can see the plane there tilted on its side. that co-pilot was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and has since been released. thats when authorities realize there is only one pilot in the plane. where is the other pilot the 2 yo 23-year-old co-pilot was found....

Thunderstorms, they really royal operations. i think the latest over the last couple of days this latest interruption is a function of those storms and then a lack of enough employees to bounce back well at the airlines. we dont see the employment situation improving dramatically this year. and the weather is what it is. i think really passengers flying this summer i think can expect it. were starting to see some changes to the schedule out in august, were seeing 7, 8% of the schedule being cut ...

The mountains that gives you a sense of the force of this impact of what we think is happening was the pilot trying to get over this hill and caught the hill and thats what witnesses say has happened. the plane began to break up and thats what you see now. that pilot was four minutes away from the airport just across there. >> it is devastating and in terms of how it all happened here and i know there were tapes that came out of air traffic control. what do we know about what the pilot was sayin...

So he pulls it up. precisely the wrong thing to do. the plane starts stalling. essentially stopping in midair. warnings go off. the two co-pilots call for the captain, six times. it takes him more than a minute to return to the cockpit. he finds utter confusion. eninsks? i dont know whats happening. the key pilot answers. the plane is plummeting at 120 miles an hour. but falling like a leaf, nose up, the 216 passengers may not have noticed what was happening because of the way the plane was desc...