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Spoke with russia. russian officials say they are willing to have a conversation but only if they discuss broader topics than just pilot to pilot interaction in the air. now, meantime nato secretary general is saying it was not an accident when russia flew over turkey over the weekend. here's how white house is responding to that. >> certainly that kind of activity that was described by the nato secretary general is not consistent with the kind of constructive contribution that we'd like to see russia make to the broader international counter-isil effort. >> continued concern over conflict in ...

We look at precedent, simply precedent. yes, pilots have fallen asleep. both crew members. however, these aircraft are highly automated. they fundamentally lie to themselves. along the navigation waypoint route and can even land themselves at the host airport without any pilot interaction. the risk of death to the passengers from pilots napping has not come to fruition. there has been no recorded event that passengers have been killed as a result of crews falling asleep. what if the pilot or co-pilot turns on them. >> there have been situations like that. in that particular situation, the crew...

Certain period of time. if that plane flew on for six or seven hours with no pilot inputs whatsoever i'm wondering how much they will be able to learn from the recorders? >> and that really brings up another point which is that the airplane did not communicate to the outside world. and maybe one of the failure modes that we just never thought about was maybe we should have the ability for that airplane to be able to communicate via satellite, to the outside world without any pilot interaction. i don't know. i am sure one thing for transport category aircraft that are flying these oceanic route...