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David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Much. I want to dig into this more. Josh and lynn is joining me. Lynn, let me start with you. Geoff bennett mentioning the 27 district in new york and this is a district that sort of hugs buffalo, it is in upstate new york. And donald trump won that district by almost 25 points back in 2016. You look at the electoral record for the congressman who has announced he is suspending his campaign. Chris collins w...

Happens, that means that you will have to rehe do entirely s security checklists. a 3 1/2 year employee ground service agent was inside the security perimeter. this has always been a concern within the aircraft community, what do you do about inside threats. we saw this most clearly with that better man wings flight in 2015 that slammed into the alps when the pilot had severe mental health issues. the issue there in germany was that his own doctors knew he was a threat. here they didnt know that...

It shows there is debris in the mountains. number one, 80 minutes into the flight, if that report proves to be correct -- 80 minutes into the flight, they were reporting a problem almost immediately from takeoff. you could solve a lot of problems in that period of time. what does it go to tell you as a pilot if you have a problem early and youre in the air on 80 minutes. >> he didnt deviate off of course during that time hes referencing. >> we need to wait and see if he did deviate. at this poin...

Pilot to believe the best thing to do would be go straight ahead. that may have been something. he not have been able to turn the airplane. >> perhaps he thought he still had engine functionality with respect to the second engine if the first went down. >> and i heard that speculation earlier with possible fuel problem where you have an engine fail and shortly thereafter another engine fails. >> we do know this particular airline is a division of a larger airline. they put out a statement that s...

Hours later than planned. >> it sounds like they left the gate at 8:30. then the distress call was heard two hours later. >> that indicates to me that they didnt receive -- didnt have an in flight emergency until well into the flight. theyre already in the mountains, inroute. they have to make the decision first, where am i going to put this down. >> its complicated by that area. otherwise you might have options. if you had -- we saw with harrison ford, he was able to land in a golf course, some...

To this. >> i realize this is speculation. we dont know if weather is a factor. there have been no reports that it was substantial at the time. what are some of the possibilities of things that could have gone wrong with the airplane? >> you always look at the three things, aircraft, pilots reaction and you look at the weather. i brought up the weather for that area early as soon as i got the call from fox. i dont see anything that is a major thunderstorms, no major typhoons nothing of that natu...

Identify you you have a code. pilots will reach oover and press the button while they were attending to an emergency. >> they may be consistent with the sky news reporting the saying there was a quick distress call that was issued that emanated from the plane with no information following that. >> and that would lead to that explanation. and that may be what happened. >> it could. were trying to find out what happened on what should be a relatively short and easy flight from one country to anoth...

Germany and barcelona. it went down 65 miles north of nice as you can see on the map right there. the president of france has called it a tragedy. we do understand search and rescue headed to the scene. the scene is hard to reach, a very remote area, very mountainous. let me ask you something, regarding the emergency on bopa board. if youre on board and the pilot makes a distress call, does the pilot tell the passengers whats happening? >> not necessarily. he doesnt want to panic them. hes got t...

In there to do a search and rescue. and they are still in that phase, the search and rescue rather than salvage. it is not a very long flight, probably 1:15 at the most. it wasnt fully loaded with fuel, im sure. and so thats why i dont think -- and with only 150 passengers, it could easily, in my opinion, handle it on a single engine. what im concerned about is, that he stayed on the course he was going, going through the mountainous region rather than turning off to the west or back towards -- ...

Hydraulics. >> in certain airplanes. this is not the airplane i flew. but every aircraft is different. you have to understand one system can cause other systems to fail. were talking about weather, even if theres a little bit of -- if you end up in a little bit of a cloud -- >> let us put up weather 7 and it will show you the images over that part of europe. whatdize that say to you? >> it looks to me like theres not a problem. in the mountains, things are weird. weather systems are strange in t...