Screening Pilots News Today

the showdown in the courtroom. the coldest blast of the season so far from texas to the northeast. were tracking it. the delta pilot charged with pulling a gun in the cockpit why authorities say he threatened to shoot the captain midflight. and the marathon man running on the road to redemption >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, and welcome. a diplomatic breakthrough has cracked open the door that has left foreigners, including americans, tr...

hundreds of foreign nationals crowding at the rafah border crossing to flee gaza for egypt including a handful of americans, but for palestinians, only some of the injured allowed through in northern gaza. israel confirming its second deadly strike in as many days on a refugee camp accusing hamas of hiding a terrorist command center among the homes. our teams inside israel and gaza. also tonight, the cornell student in court accused of making online threats to kill jewish students....

State. was he having hallucinations of some sort was he imagining things that were not there. thats sort of what that doctor that medical report was sort of alluding to here. again, we dont know for sure. we also know some of the medications he was taking, some of the side effects of the medications can be blurred vision. theres a lot of moving pieces here. but when it comes to psychosomatic, it basically means the mind is making up an illness or imagining an illness that does not exist, wolf. >...

>> however, critics say airlines arent doing enough when it comes to screening pilots for psychological problems. well take a look at that part of this story when we come back. "ride away" (by roy orbison begins to play) ♪ i ride the highway... ♪ im going my way... ♪i leave a story untold... he just keeps sending more pictures... if youre a free-range chicken, you roam free. its what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. its what you do....

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 ...

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Little chance of asylum. the folks in the plane are bused back or flown back to italy. geneva airport was closed for a period of time. flights from u.s. and elsewhere were disrupted. in post-9/11 area, keeping the flight team secured inside the cockpit certainly gotten a lot more attention. jenna, the problem arising if the flight team is involved which apparently happened today, basically an inside job. a lot more attention at ethiopian airlines will be taken to screening pilots. maybe other ai...