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It down and it's there for a terrible provocation. in either case, there is no disagreement that the thing was shot down. it is also worth being doubly, triply clear about the fact that this was a machine. a remotely piloted machine. no u.s. personnel were physically involved or at risk in the shootdown. the pentagon said the drone was an rq4-a global hawk. i'm not sure that's what you should use to describe it. this is a large aircraft designed for surveillance. we think of drones as being -- if you think of commercially available drones, it's the size of an old fashioned model airplane. this...

Pompeo, kicking off another middle east trip overnight. pompeo is in kuwait where he is expected to sign defense and trade agreements, the first stop on a 3 county tour in the region. mike pompeo heads to jerusalem, meeting with benjamin netanyahu and that will happen later this morning. here is the follow-up. the black box of the doomed jet that crashed last year in indonesia paints a frantic seen, and flipping the pages of a handbook where a faulty sensor was blame for the crash. it plummeted into the water killing all 180 people on board. the department of confrontation launched an investig...

Is. jedediah: good for balance. ever try to close your eyes and stand stable? steve: it's hard. they will be with us tomorrow. in the meantime we have jillian with the news right now. we are trying to figure out what went wrong with those jets. jillian: that's right. that video made me cry yesterday. legit tears streaming down my face. black box of the lion air jet that crashed last year in indonesia paints a tragic scene. tried to solve a problem while flipping through the pages of a handbook before plummeting into the water. faulty sensor maybe blamed for the crash. the u.s. transportation d...

Airlines? now you have a problem of cost of training. it is very expensive to train pilots in simulators. and so a small force airline may cut down the training cycle and as a former simulator instructor you don't give the pilots as much lee way which is normal on american carriers. >> sandra: spring breaks are coming up and people are worried about what they're hearing and seeing that happened here and checking to see if this is the particular model airplane they're flying. should there be fear about boarding one of these planes? >> absolutely not. look at the record. the airplane has been fl...

Investigators over there are going to be looking into that because that is a very, very serious coincidence, if it indeed is a coincidence. >> very weird indeed. this was a brand new aircraft, as you mentioned -- >> brand new aircraft. >> 737 max made in the usa. it is a brand new aircraft for boeing. southwest back here at home has plenty of these aircrafts in service and on order. should american fliers be worried about this? >> i took one in last night. i landed at national airport here in d.c. after a ski trip on that same model airplane. indeed, it is -- it's cutting-edge technology. whet...