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Under presidents george h.w. bush and bill clinton, and attorney specializing in transportation litigation. and mark gerchick. aviation consultant and author of the book "full upright and locked position." not so comfortable truths about air travel today. mark, i want to begin with you. the most incredible fact here is the tail of this plane appeared to snap off and only two fatalities. what does it say about the engineering, the simple engineering, the structural integrity of this massive vehicle that that could be the case? >> absolutely. the engineering of these aircraft is quite amazing. t...
Altimeter. >> it's possible there are mechanical problems here as well. mark, my question to you is how do we understand the safety revolution that has happened in commercial air? i mean, it just seems to me when you're thinking about this as a problem to solve, you have so many moving parts. i don't mean the moving parts of jet airlines going at hundreds of miles an hour. i mean, you have different governments, right? a plane has to go in south africa and in germany and in buton and all sorts of different places. you have different governance regimes, different regulatory regimes, different a...
Buildings. approximately 40 people in that town are still, as of this hour, missing. for that horrific stomach-churning accident, and other transportation accidents, simply don't bring out the same response of us. on cable news or in society as a whole because there is something unique about plane crashes. there just is. something about them that stokes our deepest fear, something that provoked us as a society to marshal the manpower and resources so making sure getting on a commercial flight is the safest way to travel. imagine what we an do to fight so many of the other dangers we face with ...
Water. a 17 mile straight-in final is a long way, but they had to cross a body of water. you have a greater sink rate over a body of water. >> you go down faster. >> right. you go down faster. it's possible the flight got away. of course, it's still possible they had problems with the altimeter. and the airspeed indicator. >> it's possible there are mechanical problems here as well. mark, my question to you is how do we understand the safety revolution that has happened in commercial air? i mean, it just seems to me when you're thinking about this as a problem to solve, you have so many moving...