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He actually even went back a third time with dick cheney to sort of make sure that the vice president knew exactly what he was ordering and that there was no confusion about the order because commander barnes understood just how unpress departmented this order was. >> the only plane in the sky as a reference to air force one since the faa grounded every single commercial plane quickly. when president bush boarded it to florida that morning where he was going is unknown. here's the pilot. listen to this. >> i knew i was delivering a message. initial conversation was that he take him to an air f...

Message. initial conversation was that he take him to an air force base no less than an hour away from washington. maybe try to get him to camp david. that all changed when we heard there was a plane headed towards camp david. i made the takeoff, climbed out, probably 25,000 to 35,000 feet and i gave it up to the backup pilot. i had three pilots on board that day. i said to keep flying to washington, d.c. >> hmm. it ultimately ended up at barksdale air force base in louisiana. why is that? >> because they ended up -- as he was saying the first reports of flight 93 was that the plane crashed cl...

People on ships and in planes are already in the zone so he says only use satellite images when you don't have anything else. bill? >> all right. rene marsh, appreciate your reporting there. let's bring in our cnn aviation analysts, miles o'brien, david soucy. good to have you both back. miles, what do you make of this new emphasis on the malaysian airline on cockpit security, that month one pilot could ever be alone up there? is that a law already in the states? >> it is. that's standard operating procedure, post 9/11 procedure in the u.s., the reinforced cockpit door. anytime the flight crew...