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That is done by home kunls, in other words in the united states it's done by the faa. in ukraine, done by ukraine. and by airlines and their home countries. so malaysia airlines and ma lay shea. they could have decided not to fly over ukrainian air space. >> there are airlines that continue to fly. british airways. why is that, captain bunn? >> you are talking about israel. let's make it clear. talking about israel. i was talking about what happened over ukraine. but into israel this morning, that's correct. you have foreign care yerls flying into tel aviv. >> captain bunn, do you question the...

History. already burned out an area four times bigger than the city of seattle, knocked out utilities, water, power for several towns and left nearly 200 homes destroyed. now the breaking news, the faa taking the dramatic step of banning all flights to and from tel aviv over safety concerns. joining me is nbc's tom costello, the expert on all things aviation and joining us captain tom bunn. tom costello, this all started with delta plane, flight number 468 enroute to tel aviv diverted to paris over safety concerns. what happened there? >> what happened is a rocket landed within a mile or so ...

Already avoided the airspace and then you have airlines like lufthansa that just announced today in the aftermath of this that henceforth, they would avoid the airspace. emirates turned around a flight that was en route to kiev. again, if indeed the report was that the airspace was closed at 32,000 feet and this flight was at 33,000 feet the pilot was legal so i'm not sure you can draw that conclusion. >> jim cavanaugh, captain tom bunn and scott hamilton, thank you for joining us on "the ed show" as we continue our coverage. coming up, president obama and vladimir putin had a phone call earli...

Do. >> this is what they're trained for. >> this is what they train for and this is the what they design the plane. the reality may be something different. >> captain bunn, talk to me a little bit about the dynamic between the pilot and the co-pilot as they approach for landing. what is -- what's the pilot doing, what's the co-pilot doing, or what are their supposed to be doing? >> one person's got to fly the plane, the other person handling the radio. and you swap off every other landing. people may think the captain always lands, no, it's 50/50. now, the pilot who's flying the plane is suppo...

These news conferences earlier that, apparently, that boeing 777 was evacuated in somewhere between two and three minutes. that seems, again, it seems as if -- that's really fast. >> it is. although i'm sure, under the circumstances, with the plane, you know, being on fire and having just gone through a crash landing, i'm sure a lot of passengers on there felt differently in terms of how quickly that was happening. but by the regulations, they have to be able to evacuate a plane like that in 90 seconds with half of the exit doors blocked. so it -- that's what you have to do. >> this is what th...