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>> i don't believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle. >> well despite jokes from lawmakers they were under attack from a flying lawn chair, the security breach is not a joke. a it's a major failure by several government agencies a wakeup call on how easily a terrorist or drone could have done the same thing, causing untold damage. tom foreman begins our coverage at the capitol near where that gyro copter landed. this is stunning, what happened? >> the investigators are trying to anything you're it out right now. one of the things they're doi...

Pilots to hide it. i mean, essentially, if you are grounded for a year because of depression or because of medicine you're taking because of depression, that can destroy a pilot's career. >> that's the rub. there's another thing that can take their career down. that's making a severe error in their flight pattern and reporting it on their voluntary reporting, putting it in front of a board and they have to decide, are we going to ruin this guy's career permanently? that's a record and it's on his record. so there's a lot of things the pilot faces in this realm. if you have this record, it goes...

Requires employees to disclose if they have a condition to affect their ability to fly but there is a real incentive for pilots to hide it. i mean essentially, if you are grounded for a year because of depression or because of medicine you're taking because of depression that can destroy a pilot's career. >> that's the rub. there's another thing that can take their career down. that's making a severe error in their flight pattern and reporting it on their voluntary reporting, putting it in front of a board and they have to decide are we going to ruin this guy's career permanently? that's a rec...

Pattern, they are trying to wrestle with the plane that doesn't want to do what they want it to do. eventually eventually they crash also. all lives lost there. now look at one more here. this is a greek airline called helios flight 522. in this case the crew suffered from hiypoxia. the crew passed out. one attempt by the flight attendant who was able to try to fly the plane. it coasted and went in on auto pilot to the ground. look at that flight pattern. different and smooth and regular. let's add the germanwings flight pattern. it too, has that same smooth pattern. does that mean this was a ...

Box itself. even if they don't find that box, the cockpit voice recorder will tell them incredible information. if the voices of the pilots are lethargic or questions that are nonsensical nonsensical, they'll know they're under the influence of decompression. it will give them all kinds of clues as to what actually happened even if the data recorder isn't found. i don't think it is an act of terrorism because the airplane remained in a very steady flight pattern. >> anthony, just briefly, when you talk about the voice recorders, that's different from the black box. if you get it, it shows what...