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How did it get past the system? >> again and again. >> exactly. its not as simple as saying there ought to be psychological evaluations. dr. tucker would tell us that he probably could have passed them with flying colors. this man lied. thats how he did it. he fabricated it. >> somebody with mal intent is likely to lie anyway. people who are going to self-report are not going to be in a position to do what he did. >> you are looking at more psychological reporting. >> yes. >> a different infrast...

Those doctors talking to each other. you know, the point is, youre supposed to self-report. if you self-report something along the lines of what were hearing here, youre out of a job, essentially. so you could see that the inherent conflict of interest here in this system. >> let me ask you this, this is something thats a renewed debate here. we have seen that pilot suicides have occurred before, but rarely. now were seeing many airlines change their cockpit rules, specifically here in europe to...

>> not since the phones have been re movmoved in the back of the seats. not that i am aware of. >> and wouldnt it have been beneficial to have the live streaming video of the cockpit. we have talked about this a lot, david soucie and this is a point of great contention with the pilot unions. >> yes, and before we got to that and say that it is a critical thing that has to be done to airplanes, we have to make sure that we standardize the way that we implement the existing rules, and for instance...

Damage repayment? >> well people who were injured and families devastated have a remedy under the montreal convention. theres a guarantee of $157,000 per passenger. >> thats if the airline has no liability at all. >> no liability at all and they cant prove a case. however, here i think youre going to have a strong negligence claim against germanwings and its owner lufthansa saying that the screening process for pilots was improper. obviously were hearing now about mental health issues with respe...

From the flight data recorder, and all of this information regretly has been leaked evidently. >> and david soucie. >> much of it before it was verified by the investigators, themselves. >> and jim, i want to go back to address the cockpit video. im not against the cockpit videos and lets start there, and what i am against is not learning from the lessons learned, and that is what is happen ing happening in my estimation, because we have learned that the cockpit door is a deterrent, and we have ...

Flight attendant to do when she or he goes into the cockpit? are you asking them to have an assessment taking place of the pilots mental health now? its a very unfair situation. it really is a band-aid. this policy has to be looked at in a more comprehensive way and just having a cabin crew member sit in the cockpit, that was fine when they were there for just a health problem, if the pilot had it. its not so good when you are asking that person to intervene potentially in a life-threatening sit...

Were going on or any information from the flight data or the voice recorder. youve heard that suspicion as well. >> thats right. that the recorders may never be found. and then if they are, the voice recorder part of the recorders is probably going to be written over and there will be no cockpit voice recording that occurred at the time of the initial turning off the transponders and the acars stopping the broadcast and the plane making the left turn, then other left turns, all of that will be l...

Precedent for some kind of foul play motivation by a pilot and a co pilot. theres been pilot suicides, hijackings, but as far as i can tell, weve been unable to find evidence that anything like this what is being alleged by malaysian authorities has ever happened before. >> theres one important difference between what seems to have happened here and those other incidents that youve talked about, this plane lost all contact. in the case of the other planes, the communications between the plane an...

Incapacitated. as far as i can tell, theres no precedent for some kind of foul play motivation by a pilot and a co phi lot. theres been pilot suicides, hijackings, but as far as i can tell, weve been unable to find evidence that anything like this what is being alleged by malaysian authorities has ever happened before. >> theres one important difference between what seems to have happened here and those other incidents that youve talked about, this plane lost all contact. in the case of the othe...

The two had terror ties. if flight 370 was a victim of terrorism, no group has come forward to take credit for the attack. and the pentagon, which has technology that can detect flashes around the world, has said there was no evidence of explosion. and if the plane was hijacked, well, where is it? theory two, pilot suicide. it is exceedingly rare, but there have been three suspected incidences of pilot suicides on international flights since 1 1997. most famously egypt air flight 990 which crash...