>> no, i wouldn't have expected it. but, you know, you always wonder about the wisdom of flying over combat zones. but, you know, there are war zones all over the world. as an airline pilot checking in for a flight, you tend to -- well, you have no choice, really, but to accept the decision made by your company and they produced a flight plan. you do occasionally reject a flight plan or a routing and select a different one. say, for example, they route you over a tie phenomenon and you choose a different route. same applies with severe turbulence, you might choose a different level. but in the case of making a political decision like this, it would be -- it's not really up to the flight crew on the day. >> should that flight have even existed? >> well, i would say no, but retrospectively, obviously, no,