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liberated a number of towns near kharkiv. the region where they reported the civilian killed has seen several explosions. the cause is missiles and bombs. ukraine has not confirmed nor denied responsibility for the blast. another major development is finland joining nato possibly. they agreed to assist each other militarily should either country face attack. finland shares an 800 mile border with russia. finland's president will contact vladimir putin if that should happen. >> if that will be the case, what my response would be that you caused this. vladimir putin's profile. critics ...

Just become such an extremely divisive issue but, again, talking about the mac alan area, first of all, blocking a bus that's legally transporting people, okay, that's kind of a violation of a law but whatever, secondly, again, i have worked the mcalan, texas sector as international pilot doing border patrol in the air, it is not a secure area, there are border patrol agents that do their best but there's constantly drugs and illegal immigrants that come over that border so to protest there especially instead of maybe helping to secure the border and then having compassion to people in these s...

Did practice that during that flight. certainly it seems as though there were some very very interesting things happening even on that outbound flight that this newspaper says could very well indicate that he was trying to test the waters in all this. >> all right. helpful. so mary more information. reuters is saying that the report is out and that it shows that the pilot ignored a dozen contacts from authorities during the ill-fated flight which makes sense he'd be ignoring it. but also that he set the autopilot to 100 feet five different times during the earlier flight. what does that mean t...

That co-pilot of the doomed germanwings flight committed mass murder. investigators now believe andreas lubitz repeatedly practiced putting the plane into a deadly descent on the flight right before the one that left all 150 people on board dead. the information comes from a preliminary report by the b.e.a. the french agency investigating the march 24th crash. it put forth this graph to explain how lubitz rehearsed. note the red at zero level there. so this is exactly how long and how often lubitz according to this report set the plane to drop toward 100 feet. the same auto pilot setting fligh...

It's the type of training called crew resource management or crm. originally it was designed to prevent accidents. it empowered everybody. flight attendants, dispatchers, other pilots, any time they saw another pilot doing what they thought was a mistake, they had immunity and were actually encouraged to report that. now that was primarily an accident prevention program but perhaps we need to revisit this training and include behavioral disorders also because clearly the people that are in the cockpit are probably the ones that have had a chance to watch him closest for the longest period of t...