Plane. I dont think this was the first flight certainly. And the communications back and forth with the tower at one point asking if there were other pilots on the line, asking about what kind of chop he would get into over the mountain areas. This went on for quite a period of time and it did Emso Liseem E air Traffic Controller had some familiarity with them. So as the picture becomes, you know, more and more flushed out, this is someone who was familiar with the airport. You know, you almost are tempted to say it was someone who kind of snapped because he clearly enjoyed the flight, enjoyed the role and loop that he performed, sounded anyway, surprised that he was able to do that loop. That is difficult do especially in a twin Engine Aircraft that is not made do that. And it sheds a lot of light. And many people heard the clip that we just played, but i want to play a bit more of it. Obviously viewers here in the u. S. , many people just waking up again for this plane that was stolen from Seatac Airport hours ago. Lets listen to a bit more of that Radio Transmission between the mechanic and air Traffic Control. Yeah, that is all i have no idea what all that means. I wouldnt know how to punch it in. Im on autopilot. Im keeping you you awu you aircraft trying to land at seatac. Yeah, I Dont Want To screw with that. Im glad youre not screwing up everyone elses day. On account of me. Im down to 2100. I started like 30 something. Rich, you say you are at 2100 pounds of fuel left . Yeah. I dont know what the burnout is like on takeoff, but yeah, it burned quite a bit faster than i expected. So just listening there to the tone of this conversation, mary, it is bizarre, right, to say the least. It is not confrontational. It seems that the mechanic is having a good time saying, hey, i hope it doesnt mess things up for others. Bizarre, right, to i a the lesa least. And what does it say about how he was able to get up in the airplane in the first place . Well, and that is very typical because at airports all over the world, i mean mechanics have the ability to taxi the aircraft. They are qualified for that, that is one of the things that they are allowed do. You have to separately qualify, be able to run and taxi the aircraft. And sos as i understand in this case, they had taxied it over to a maintenance parking area. And so once at that point, i mean he had the ability to move the plane, he knows how to taxi the plane. To me it sounded like even from the very early clips when we saw the loop and the turn, it looked like he had some experience flying. But here it is almost like he is experimenting, almost like he is doing a Science Project and talking to the air Traffic Controller as he experiments with this aircraft. And clearly hadnt thought the ending through because after the barrel roll or after the loop what he said i thought that would be it, i dont know. To me it just sounds like someone that snapped. Yeah, and you mention that mechanics do test these airplanes as they are known to taxi at airports. But what would the scene be when the ground control, the tower, airport police, realize this person is taking off in a commercial plaenlne . Well, very concerned, upset, all sorts of alarms would be going off. But there is very little that they can do. The key is who has access to the planes. Because you once youre in it and once you know how to start it and taxi it, there is very little that anyone can do to keep you from taking off other than put like you see in hollywood movies, they can put vehicles on the ground in front of the taxi area, but they wouldnt be expecting that because this person was obviously in had the taxi approval. He could taxi planes at the airport. So once he decides to move off the taxi area and into position on the runway, the controllers were doing the best they could to make sure he didnt interfere with traffic in the air because
obviously he could have caused a disaster in the air, although all modern Passenger Aircraft have automatic avoidance equipment on it. We dont know what he had turned on this plane, but the controllers had to keep not only him and others safe on the ground, but once in the air, they had to keep him away from everybody else. And there is so much focus and attention on security, people going into airports, passengers getting on to planes. But look, this really raises another question, another issue that certainly will be flushed out as this investigation is under way. Mary schiavo, thank you so much for being with us and well keep in touch. Again, in breaking story of course well continue to follow it here on cnn. Another major story to tell you about as this weekend pushes forward, a very grim anniversary. In charlottesville, how that city traumatized by racists, White Nationalists, nazis. How it is preparing for this
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full speed into the crowd, immediately put it in reverse and reversed at speed back up the mi hill. Reporter when it was over, Heather Heyer was dead, dozens of others injured. I saw a woman dumb link down tumbling down on my windshield and landing there. I kind of like closed my eyes because i didnt know what i was seeing was real. I remember Heather Heyer being on the ground near the back of my sisters car there were emts all around her, but i remember particularly the emt that was giving her cpr at the time, he was using all of his might, all of his force to try and revive her. Reporter the driver of the car that plowed into the crowd was arrested and charged. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. That same day, two State Troopers were killed when their helicopter crashed while patrolling the area. In response to it all, President Donald Trump didnt denounce the hate group involved. Instead, he said this we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides. Reporter the backlash was swift, yet three days later, the president doubled down on his remarks. You look at both sides. I think there is blame on both sides. Heather heyer they showed up at charlottesville excuse me, you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. Reporter the images seem to tell a different story. Randi kaye, cnn, new york. It was such a horrible day
for our country. And so far President Trump is ignoring the charlottesville anniversary, at least on twitter. He is actually tweeting criticism of some athletes who are making a quiet protest about Race Relations in this country. On friday mr. Trump condemned a small group of u. S. Football players who kneeled during the national anthem. The president accuse us them of showing fake outrage for something they cant define, but the athletes are explicitly calling attention to Racial Injustice an inequality in the United States. They say the way mr. Trump is handling it is making the whole problem worse. Now, from dog whis i will statements to comments that seem to give the racist groups a pass, it seems that White Nationalists are now emboldened to spread their extremist views. We have one example. Sara sidner has a story of one town that is struggling to figure out how to confront a neighbor who is a knee owe neo
nazi. Reporter in the koum of this rural pennsylvania town, the sign hate lives here. Are you a knee owe nazi . Do i embrace it . I dont try to push it away. Reporter youre wearing a swastika on your shirt and youve got swastika flags. Flags, why the shirt, why the hateful symbols . I dont think they are hateful. I think it is an ideology that has been completely m misinterpreted since the third reich. Reporter i have to stop you. Misinterpreted . 6 million jews were killed. No, you will never sell me on that. Reporter im not trying to sell you. It is reality, it is history. Daniel burnside is a light thing rod of ulysses, pennsylvania. His town is getting attention it does not want. Rural america spoke up when they elected trump. Rural america. Reporter and by rural america, he means white america. Were staring dont barrel of
a gun here in white america. There is still 193 million white americans. Yes, the vast majority of them are in their 60s and 70s, will be in the ground in the next 20 years. And therefore we have the possibility of becoming a minority in our own country. A possibility of becoming a minority. Reporter sounds to me like youre afraid of being me. This is my country. Reporter being me this is also my country. You didnt win the culture war. Reporter he invited us on his property to talk, but when he doesnt like our conversation, he explodes. Get the [ bleep ] out of here now. Reporter we do. Just down the street, were met by A Dozen Residents who say burnside does not speak for this town. There are families in this county that blame politics for people like him sort of being able to come out and be very loud. Is that fair . The president weve got right now hasnt helped the situation a whole lot. You know, hes done a lot of the same beliefs, you know, wont speak against him. This guy feeds off that stuff. Reporter among the crowd, many with fathers and grandfathers who fought the nazis. We are good people and he is stepping on all of us. Were all one tribe. And who does he think he is. Reporter Teacher Debbie Hamilton says she just returned from Touring Concentration Camps in poland. One thing that we talked about was Passive Resistance versus active resistance. Reporter so far they have chosen Passive Resistance with burnside. On the other side of potter county, joe and his wife are convinced Passive Resistance is the wrong choice. Im not saying you should go to their houses with pitch forks and guns, you know. Im saying hold a peaceful protest against them. Reporter after seeing kkk flyers appearing in their neighborhood, and burnsides decorations in their county, joe did protest. Only to receive a threat by one of the supremacists he stood against. They would look at me and
give me the finger and even make little gestures like they were going to shoot me. Reporter joe says the racial hatred intensified when his jamaican bride arrived. In walmart, i get a lot of that [ bleep ]. Reporter in their hinds if more people stood up against hate, the racists would be forced to leave and let love stand. Sara sidner, cnn, ulysses, pennsylvania. Lets bring in our Pop Culture Journalist Jarrett Hill joining us from los angeles. Thank you for your time. Looking at that piece from sara sidner, it shows examples of hate that seem to be more overt and this weekend hate will be on parade in the nations capital. Ive got a 3yearold son and i worry about what he sees and what he hears on a weekend like this, but what are your thoughts about the feeling and the tone of hate in america right now . I think we have to really pause ourselves for a moment and think about the fact that were having a frank uncomfortable
contentious conversation with nazis on a regular basis right now because the president of the United States is not everyone comfortable saying like what they are saying is bad, what they are doing is wrong, the things that they believe are not american values. And were having to take these ideas very seriously because they are coming from all over the place. And were in a time right now where all of these kinds of ideas are people with these ideas are feeling empowered to say whatever it is that they want to say and go to washington, d. C. On the one Year Anniversary of charlottesville. I think it is really, really terrible despicable time for us in america. And what is unexpected at this point, what is to happen could happen in charlottesville and what we know will happen in washington, d. C. This weekend, question ha we have to go back one year to the days after the violence when asked to clarify the false equivalence that he suggested, mr. Trump, between protesters and nazis, again nazis that lost
world war ii, here is what mr. Trump had to say back then. Excuse me. Excuse me. You had some very bad team in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. That was then and now this is now. Here we are a year later, what do you expect . I have the very lowest of expectations and the highest of hopes. I think that this president has shown us time and time again that we cant rely on him to be our moral compass. Hes shown us that we cant rely on him to be a sounding board for what is logical or what is reasonable, what is even comfortable to america in a time where we have nazis that are literally coming to washington, d. C. To protest or to celebrate or to commemorate what happened in charlottesville. There has not been a peep out of the white house. It does seem their strategy is to wait and see if they are forced to do so. But how important is it in your view for the president of the United States to make a clear statement denouncing these hate groups . To be very honest with you, i think it would be really great if the president came out and said i dont believe this, i dont believe in this, i dont affirm this behavior, but i dont even know that i would buy it at this point. Weve sat with donald trump since june of 2015 2015 as a president ial candidate and even before that with the birtherism and all those things. So him coming out right now and saying this is bad or, oh, they shouldnt be doing this, i dont even know that i could buy it at this point because weve had so much come before it. Hes had so many opportunities come before that he has walked by and not said anything. I dont even know that i would be able to embrace it or accept it as something that would be genuine because it would be so countered to everything that has come before it. Although this is a president who is known for saying things that are directly contradictory to the previous thing that he said
before. Mr. Trump again turning attention to Football Players kneeling, he says it is about disrespecting the flag and soldiers which rallies his base. We know however those protests whether one agrees with them or not are really about highlighting social injustice. But lets listen to mr. Trump as he leans in on the rallies his. Get that [ bleep ] off the field right now. Given the tone of what you just heard there, given what we know could happen this weekend, do you see this president as having the ability to pull a nation together on such a critical issue like race . I wish that i even believed that was a priority for this president. I dont believe that this president cares about that. I think this president has shown us since the day