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How many commercial flights are there around the world every day? 40,000 or so. and over the past 25 years, how many airplanes have gone missing? i can think of one. there are practical questions -- >> and we mentioned, there have been a fewer number of crashes this year than we've seen since 1927. so it is important to keep the bigger picture perspective. let's ask another question here. this is from john. he asks can pilots override traffic control amiss imminent danger? >> absolutely. in this particular circumstance the pilots were deviating around whether more than likely they would have u...

It's definite that someone actually made the airplane do this. they could have done it two ways. they could have put information into the computer to make the plane fly in that direction, or they could have just simply turned the heading knob in the direction that they wanted to go. >> john barton, thank you for your expertise. we appreciate >> it thank you. the fort hood shooter had never been in combat, so why was he undergoing diagnostics for ptsd? and should a baseball player tell his wife to schedule a c-section around the season opener? [ male announcer ] this is kevin.

Got in and initiated it. it's definite that someone actually made the airplane do this. they could have done it two ways. they could have put information into the computer to make the plane fly in that direction, or they could have just simply turned the heading knob in the direction that they wanted to go. >> john barton, thank you for your expertise. we appreciate >> it thank you. the fort hood shooter had never been in combat, so why was he undergoing diagnostics for ptsd? and should a baseball player tell his wife to schedule a c-section around the season opener?

Emergency on board. >> richard, that's what raises questions that the co-pilot didn't say anything about it when he did communicate. >> what's interesting here about what we're seeing from the flight deck here is this 12 minutes, anderson. because deduct 12 minutes from the last known "all right, good night," and you get into roughly the time when the last acars message would have been sent. so a question for you, martin and mitchell in the flight simulator, if either by the heading knob or by the flight management system a route change was made, would that have been sent out on acars or would...

The fact that because the plane changed course dramatically that it necessarily means sinister intent. it does look rather odd, though, that you've got a plan in there and you say rather calmly all right good night, that doesn't sound like you're you've got an emergency on board. >> richard, that's what raises questions that the co-pilot didn't say anything about it when he did communicate. >> what's interesting here about what we're seeing from the flight deck here is this 12 minutes, anderson. because deduct 12 minutes from the last known "all right, good night," and you get into roughly the...