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Welcome back. recovery efforts go on in the crash of airasia flight 8501, i keep thinking about the need for real time transmission of data from the cockpits of commercial airlines. if i can track my kids through their cell phones, why can't we do likewise when hundreds of lives are in the hands of two pilots. arthur is a pilot, an aviation attorney and the founding partner of the law firm and he joins me from philadelphia. arthur, this has been your business for 46 years. what is it that you think went on that you haven't heard anybody else express thus far? >> michael, there's an emergency a...

Dispatch aircraft in foul weather in the hope that their flight crews will be able to use their radar to avoid serious weather conditions. this crew used its radar, but they tried to climb, they were denied the full climb that they requested, they deviated and they were able to deviate around some storms but there's a point when the weather gets so bad that an airplane shouldn't be dispatched. this was such an evening. >> does the fact that the pilot made that request to climb comport with arthur walk's concern about the safety directive perhaps not have been followed in this case, in other wo...

Welcome back. recovery efforts go on in the crash of airasia flight 8501 i keep thinking about the need for real time transmission of data from the cockpits of commercial airlines. if i can track my kids through their cell phones why can't we do likewise when hundreds of lives are in the hands of two pilots. arthur is the founding partner of the law firm and he joins me from philadelphia. arthur this has been your business for 46 years. what is it that you think went on that you haven't heard anybody else express thus far? >> michael, there's an emergency air worthiness directive. it's one of ...

Weather in the hope that their flight crews will be able to use their airborne radar to avoid serious weather conditions. this crew used its radar, but they tried to climb, they were denied the full climb that they requested, they deviated and they were able to deviate around some storms, but there's a point when the weather gets so bad that an airplane shouldn't be dispatched. this was such an evening. >> does the fact that the pilot made that request to climb comport with arthur walk's concern about the safety directive perhaps not have been followed in this case, in other words, put the pie...

Into an airport. they fly all around the world, there are a lot of different destinations. what you want to do is have a crew that's proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, that's important. >> arthur walk, what's your assessment thus far of the experience issue? >> i think 43 hours, which the captain had, is not an unreasonably low amount of experience for the 777. remember, he had over 10,000 hours flying big airplanes, like 747s. that's not unusual. what i'm troubled by more than anything else is the lack of what i'll call cockpit resource manag...