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>> that's the great question, there have been many studies, some asked by include cybersecure, though there's no indication this was a hack or an attack, but the problem with these massive government computer systems, they're run by contractors. almost always, when you have a contractor-run system there are criticisms, for the people in charge in government not understanding it, not being on top of it. so you're at the mercy of these glitches. the good news in the vulnerability in our air traffic controllers, ground controllers, many of them remember the old system where you had to do hand-off...

Of the fighting for us. this seems to cut not only against everything rational, everything american, everything patriotic, but also everything that trump says he wants. >> yeah. these are very small footprints on the ground. we probably have at any given time not more than a thousand troops inside syria, air force ground controllers, it's been an incredible leveraged position because the kurds did the ground combat. same situation takes place now in iraq that basically 7,000, 8,000 troops there. most of the maintenance of the security situation is done by the iraqi forces. and afghanistan wher...

Tonight, washington officials downplaying concerns about security, insisting that all protocols were followed before an airline employee stole a plane from the seattle international airport, which is frankly pretty terrifying if true. kyung lah is "outfront" with the latest. >> on runway 1-6-center. holding on runway 1-6-center. >> reporter: new audio from the first moment ground controllers realized they had a big problem rolling down the taxi way. a ground controller repeatedly tries and fails to make contact with a rogue horizon q400. >> flying out of the area. >> reporter: that's the momen...

Ground operations and they have their own dispatchers and own ground controllers. and so the tower might not have known. there would be no reason to tell the tower that they are moving and repositioning a plane on the ground. there was not someone in that aircraft. they -- two different functions. you have ground control and then you have the tower that controls the takeoffs so tower probably didn't know it was just one guy moving the plane around. >> now that somebody has seen this, is there concern, mary, that can happen again at another airport? >> well, sure. and it's been a concerned, lit...

Taxiway. other than things like employee assistance programs. and alcohol detection programs. most mechanics do have to take peer odd alcohol and drug test thousands. once somebody decide. a mccannic they will fake an aircraft. they are sophisticated enough to talk to the ground controllers. quite quickly get the aircraft out into a position where it could take off. i don't think, i don't think they would have had much time to react. before you move tult other point. we will get to it. if i can stop you for a second. would that be fair to say, that that is a glaring vulnerability in the system...