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Were only able to destroy five of the 19 cruise missiles that were launched last night. i mean, what do they need to fight this, do you think they will get it? >> yet, look i think a preponderance of air defense assets are probably a key to protecting the capital, where they should be. those are difficult to move, the other complicating factor is that odessa is a port city, with a direct line of attack of crimea to its southeast. so, you are not able to prepare a layered defense like you can do with kyiv, which was further in the interior of the country. so look, they're going to have to quick...

Right airport, the one -- where they should have landed. the other one still says branson. a different chart, for the small airport, and it reads the same way, except for the fact that the name of the airport, for the right one, is branson. the other one is another name altogether. so mistakes can be made. >> how dangerous -- i mean, the fact that this runway was so much shorter than the runway at the correct airport. i mean, what kind of a risk is there? they were 300 feet from the end of this thing. >> anderson, when i heard this story, i got goose bumps. i really have got to tell you, i fee...

Slowing sped instead of pushing down which he should have done. the plane winged over plummeted to the ground killing all aboard. there is growing concern increased automation may less on pilot effectiveness in rare emergency circumstances like that. new training for crosswind takeoffs and landings and better runway safety rules as well. the faa says that air carriers will have five years to comply with these new rules. that will allow time for software upgrades in flight simulation technology. it is expected to cost the aviation industry up to $353 million to make these changes but, the estim...

Many times they have fired and if they have taken out tanks. what should we be -- what is your observation on the first initial period there as this enforcement of the no-fly zone operation commences? >> i'm encouraged that the french got the aircraft up. there are reports that they took out the tanks. that is encouraging. hopefully they were all tanks that were manned and operated by gadhafi's people. it was taken out without causing collateral damage. but the real question is what is the impact of this on further actions by gadhafi and his team. do they fall back and say the international co...