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This case. shortly thereafter controllers lost contact with the plane. the flight was scheduled to land at 8:30 a.m. local. here now security expert and former commercial pilot an no any roman. thanks for being with us. you are in that situation. a lot of turbulence. you ask air traffic control, can we deviate, increase altitude, whatever, to get around what's in front of us. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. you hit a situation where you may need to take evasive action. there is something with an airbus a-oh 320 that could be part of the way the particular pilots are getting feedback,...

Enjoyed my time as the captain on the airplane. we flew it in all weather. it is a very maneuverable airplane. it has absolute state of the art electronics, both weather radar and systems on the airplane. so the pilots of an a-320 are prepared as anybody in the sky to be able to deal with inclement weather. and pilots professional pilots deal with thunderstorms and inclement weather regularly. it's part of the experience that you gain as a pilot. so the deviation requests are absolutely normal. the altitude the airplane service ceiling is 39,000 feet. then the computers onboard will tell you a...

What has come out of it is a slight rebalancing. i've spoken to people very familiar with this deal. what they tell me is that they, the airlines can live with it and now it is all about execution. >> so here you've spun me now. you're saying, your fares are going up but not sxs you think. here's the other thing. people complain about the planes them say this is a really old plane. >> they've gotten gins and wings. >> they fly but they're not the night of thing on the planett and you tell me that here again, there is another side of the story. >> i'm not going to sit here and do american airli...

We turn next hertoew reporting tonight after we learned of a close call at the san francisco airport. a major disaster narrowly averted, an air canada passenger plane coming in for a landing, heading straight for a taxiway, where four other passenger planes were waiting to take off. up to 1,000 passengers on those planes. here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: new details tonight on a disaster averted on this runway. an air canada pilot, confused on a night approach. >> tower, i just want to confirm. this is air canada 7-5-9 we see some lights on the runway there. >> air canada 759 confirmed,...

Model of a very reliable model of planes. the a-320 is flown around the world, it's a work horse of a plane. 0.14 fatal loss. it's very, very low. it's registered in ireland. it's the irish who are ensuring that the documentation is done correctly and that the plane is maintained well. it is usually in the interest of whoever is holding that lease, it is in their interest toin sure the people because whoever owns that plane is going to want to sell that plane down the road. so it's in the irish interest to