Pilot 2015 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Procedures. i'm assuming they vary from airline to airline. maybe there are new requirements given this is a european airline. >> former ntsb board member kitty higgins, thank you for joining us. joining us from the crash site is nbc news reporter claudio lavanga. claudeio, what is the latest from the site? >> reporter: well, it is 1:00 in the morning here so we don't have any way to corroborate and confirm those reports. those just came out in "the new york times." we have not seen that before. all we heard of this afternoon, about a few hours ago, which was official, which is the aviation au...

The airbus a320 crashed about an hour after takeoff yesterday morning on a flight from barcelona, spain, to dusseldorf, germany, carrying 144 passengers, and 6 crew members. today we learned three of those passengers were americans. there were no survivors. joining me now by phone, former ntsb board memberer katy higgins. katy, this just was published a few moments ago and we're all just shaking our head at the horror of this. your response? >> yeah, chris, exactly. it compounds what is already a horrific tragedy, and makes this just that much more awful. it is reminiscent in an eerie way of t...

Else that will help investigators find out what happened during that flight. hopefully that will be recovered tomorrow. but in this case if this is really what happened, and this is not confirmed yet, if this is really what happened then that voice recording black box will be more important than the flight data recording. that will mean this is not a technical issue, but something that is more human. >> claudeio lavanga at the crash site, thank you. the news reported by "the new york times" just a few moments ago tonight, that one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit on that fateful air...

Near the cockpit door in the front of the plane. those are all the precautions and safety requirements put in place, but they were also locked from the inside. >> they're locked from the inside. there is no other option. >> no. there is no other option. and it's just -- obviously we have to hear more from the authorities who hear the tape and more about the pilots their background, training what we know about their personal stories. that's all part of the investigative process. obviously, with this development, they're now turning very much to the pilots. i don't know, perhaps you do i'm tryin...

Fox's empire. now the biggest phenomenon on tv. all those shows and a whole lot of others including scandal, have created an appetite in hollywood to cast more nonwhite actors in the pilot season. according to deadline a new approach comes with pitfalls. pilot 2015 the year of ethnic casting, about time, or too much of a good thing. describes the plight of all the poor, underworked white people in hollywood. are this is from the article. as is the case with any sea change, the pendulum might have swung a bit too far in the opposite direction. instead of opening the field for actors of any race...