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The situation room right now. she has been doing a fact check for us. what are you learning? it could be frightening. >> this is a story that is generating a lot of buzz online. the headlines of a man hacking into an aircraft flight system. we looked into this a little further to find out if this is a real concern to our nation's aviation system. imagine your plane taking off but suddenly the onboard computer is now under the control of someone on the ground. using a smart phone app. that scenario of an aircraft hacking was laid out by german security consultant hugo teso at a conference in am...

Until we do, and we get the airlines to demand it, we will have incidents like we read in the "new york times" today. >>shepard: tell us what the system needs? >>guest: in the air, we need a free flight system that lets airplanes go where they want did go without putting them in line like a highway. the system they have will computerize it. it will be satellite based. on the ground at kennedy or o'hare, there are systems that can monitor where planes are. those are closer to fruition. some are in place. we need management at top of the f.a.a. that is not a political appointee. that is what we ...

The cloud drifts over europe and upper atmosphere and makes the climate colder and wetter than usual. martha: if this happens, a real possibility it could impact our international flight system. >> well, they are worried about that, ash up in the atmosphere gets into the jet engines, and clogs the engines and the engines will flame out. and they are worried about the international travel and the effects on international travel. martha: we talked about 1783 and what happened then, and obviously the world was a very different place then but famine dpri gripped a huge part of iceland as a result ...

The chinese city of guam joe all you have to do is fasten your seat belt take a look then the automated flight system takes over the electrically powered drone can take a single passenger out a twenty three minute flight at one hundred kilometers an hour last year dubai in the united arab emirates announced plans to cooperate with the company behind the drone a hang to develop self driving taxis to service the desert city. might take some getting used to well that's it for your business if you want more just check us out. of business i'll be back with more tomorrow same time same place i'll se...

Thanks to all. mary let me start with you. the entire flight system is based on machines able to check for bombs. tonight we find out the bombs can beat the checks. >> that's right. one, we think that they've had additional testing capabilities by using the very equipment that we purchased, the united states encouraged other countries to purchase after 9/11 to prevent bombs in the future and the plastic explosives, etc. the mo has changtd, ever since the underwear bomber in 2009, we thought perhaps they had help from inside. we went thu a lot of equipment. in the somali bombing, they thought t...