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Quiet and people are just very relaxed to tell an airplane, hey, contact the center 1-3-9. good night. see ya. or, bye-bye. so, again, are we going to find out that that is absolutely related to something? maybe. maybe not. but were taking bits and pieces of this story, out of the context of the begin, the middle and the end, and were all guessing and, again, i go back to the fact that were basing most of this on the malaysian input, and i have come to not trust that in the last week. >> okay. b...

That can make somebody just skip something or perhaps miss something that they normally would never do. jenna: well, rob -- >> you know, you raise an interesting -- jenna: let me just jump in here, rob. john, ill be to you in just a second, but as smart consumers, rob, should we not fly airlines when theyre going through a bankruptcy because as you describe, there can be a lot of things that can happen. is this something that maybe as consumers we avoid american airlines for a while? >> well, i ...

As we continue to take in some of these live pictures, rob, one of the questions we have, and thats why i asked john about whether or not hes ever heart of this happening before is whether or not this is a problem because, listen, were flying around planes that are older, or its a problem specific to american airlines and something to do with their maintenance, rob. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, having lived through an airline bankruptcy when i flew for midway, i can just tell you tha...

An aircraft. right now the american airlines has issued several thousand furlough notices, so its closed an entire maintenance base in oklahoma. so now you have a very demoralized maintenance crew. the maintenance people are also allowed to make write-ups, and so are the crew chiefs. jenna: the faa is investigating, and we wanted to do a little reporting ourselves. john gulia is a former member of the national transportation safety board, also a former airline mechanic. also joining us on the ph...

In accordance with the proper procedures. and american needs additional management personnel to oversee the work thats being done, especially if it is outsourced. jenna: just so our viewers know, thats part of the story, apparently, that some of the maintenance work is being outsource today a contracting company, so theres finger pointing going on between management, the unions the outsourced company. theres just a lot happening in this one story, so its one were going to continue to follow. joh...

After they say he started yelling about a bomb and al-qaeda and telling them to say their prayers. the plane, forced to make an emergency landing in texas, instead of neag from new york to vegas. once on the ground the security personnel met the plane and you can see the pilot, taken to a medical facility. joining us is rob mark, editor of jet line.com and commercial pilot and bob babekidis, a passenger who help restrain the pilot and also a former nypd sergeant. paul, let me start with you. its...

Where instinctively, three other passengers also converged in that area. between the four of us, i made a quick assessment and decided that after grabbing this guy, who was totally physically fit, i mean -- >> megyn: you had to be somewhat terrified, paul, no? even with your police experience? >> it was a very scary situation, but in cases like this, this is where training and experience kick in. and again, cooperation with the other passengers, that we all had a great relationship where we were...

Under new rules put in place by the faa air traffic controllers are now guaranteed an extra hour off between shifts. is that enough? our next guest has been both a pilot and a controller and knows firsthand what goes on in the tower and cockpit. help says the new rule by the faa is the stupidist thing hes ever heard. rob mark joins us from chicago. explain why. >> well, the problem with the way the schedules rotate. they are very fatigue inducing. one extra hour is not going to make any differen...

More than $250,000 a year means a tax hike for businesses, many with fewer than 200 workers. jon. jon: rich edson, thanks rich this fox news alert, a small plane crashing near phoenixs deer valley airport. witnesses say the planes engine began sputtering soon after takeoff around 6:00 this morning phoenix time. it slammed into a building, killing the pilot. on the phone with us now, rob mark, a commercial pilot and editor of jet line.com. obviously the worst time to have engine trouble is when...

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