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That, that the public has a right to know it. i suspect they're with fewer pilots because business had been slow until recently that the pilots tend to be more experienced now than they might have been let's say 15 or 20 years ago. but they are very seriously trained. i mean, before they assume the flying duties in a new kind of aircraft, they've done a lot of training on the ground in the simulators, then they fly along with the check pilot for a great while. even though they haven't accumulated a whole lot of hours with hands on, they still have had a fair amount of experience in the cockpit...

But they are very seriously trained. i mean, before they assume the flying duties in a new kind of aircraft, they've done a lot of training on the ground in the simulators, then they fly along with the check pilot for a great while. even though they haven't accumulated a whole lot of hours with hands on, they still have had a fair amount of experience in the cockpit. >> finally, we believe that one of the two teen-agers who so sadly lost their lives may have been killed by being hit by a rescue vehicle speeding to the aircraft along with many others. is it anything other than a fact that it wa...

Likely to happen. >> when you hear that a pilot's had 43 hours of flight experience on a plane like this, never done it at this particular airport, does that raise any -- is 43 hours a lot? is it not a lot? >> it's not a lot, however, this pilot obviously has 10,000 hours or something close to it, has been a pilot on another large airplane, the boeing 747. but there was a supervisory pilot, an instructor, check pilot, next to him supervising him. i during my career was a check airman, one of the most enjoyable things i did was when we were hiring new pilots, to take them out after they had bee...

Experience on a plane like this, never done it at this particular airport, does that raise any -- is 43 hours a lot? is it n a lot? >> it's not a lot, however, this pilot obviously has 10,000 hours or something close to it, has been a pilot on another large airplane, the boeing 747. but there was a supervisory pilot, an instructor, check pilot, next to him supervising him. i during my career was a check airman, one of the most enjoyable things i did was when we were hiring new pilots, to take them out after they had been through a month of ground school, to take them out on a airline flight wi...