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Wonderful? martha: i thought she was a yankee fan. bill: depend on where you are. martha: she said growing up she spent a lot of time at wrigley field and was a big chicago cubs fan. terrifying moment high in the sky as a co-pilot loses consciousness mid-flight. it comes after another pilot died of a heart attack. how many incidents have we seen and it puts focus on the fitness of pilots in the cockpit. >> reporter: two incident is two days is raising concerns about the health and well-being of those at the controls of the planes in which we all fly.

Is there something more here that the faa is going to have to take another long hard look at. martha: what about mental fitness. >> reporter: that's a very big issue. everybody remembers the germanwings flight in which the pilot deliberately crashed that plane into the side of the alps killing everybody on board. before that there was the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. we still don't know the reason for that disappearance. but there has been speculation the pilot may have been suffering from some sort of emotional and mental issue. in the wake of both of those incidents the faa...

Water treatment plant to continue operation. martha: another day, another scare in the skies. this plane was forced to land because the pilot passed out. bill: iraq asking for help from moscow. senator ted cruz with more live on that. >> the enemies of america have all taken the measure of barack obama and they determined nothing he says is ...

In this latest incident the plane was on the way from houston to san francisco. then the pilot fell ill. eventually even losing consciousness. the plane had to divert to albuquerque. the pilot regained consciousness and was able to walk off that plane once it land. but this came one day after captain michael johnson, a 57-year-old american airlines pilot collapsed and died while in the cockpit. that plane, too, had to make an unscheduled landing. all of this putting a focus on the fitness of the pilots. every pilot has to be medically certified every 12 months if he or she is under 40. every s...

Candidate as people over the country went to tedcruz.org. i'm incredibly encouraged because what we are seeing as conservatives coalescing behind our campaign. i could not be more encouraged by where we are. bill: thank you for coming back here. it's been quite some time. thank you for coming back. martha: this week we had back-to-back scares in the skies. an emergency landing because the pilot passed out right on the heels of another tragic incident in the sky. we'll take a look at what's going on in these airplanes. bill: donald trump, guess where he is right now. we'll have a look at who's ...