transitioning from the narrow-bodied fleet to the 777. he was thoroughly looking forward to this. he had been training for weeks and months in the simulator and this was one of his first handful of flights at controls of the mettle himself. he had an extremely senior captain with him, a training captain of many years and many hours experience. fareek had about 2,700 hours. so in an experienced first officer but inexperienced on the 777. it's one of those coincidences. >> tell us about this boeing 777. how safe of a plane it is, what kind of a track record does it have? >> it's extremely safe. has a very, very good track record. the airs love it. it's had a couple of things i think we've reported on. it's had a problem with some of the fasteners. the faa fined it $2.7 million for quality control problems in the production of the 777, but