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Why risk that again? >> right. >> when you can simply have the faa and the boeing safety inspectors working together -- >> right. >> -- to inspect these planes and give an assurance to the flying public these planes are safe and if they're not, do the fix. >> if the issue is what if it's not just the plane? what if this software thing goes to the human component as well and that foreign pilots don't get the same kind of training on this software and what is, i've been told by people who are in the flight game, that you have to know some specific things about this particular aircraft. >> look, ...

So if the pilots aren't trained, that could be part of it also. maybe you got to look at the pilot issue. >> chris, there's an international organization that can provide the kind of training that's needed if that really is the flaw. we're not going to know if that's the flaw unless we go in and really find out that there are no other technological or mechanical issues that -- >> right. >> -- need to be dealt with. once those are off the board and once they're convinced that it's not that problem, then the international community can come together and provide the proper training to pilots. >> ...

7:00 and 8:00 p.m. wind out of the east at about 10 miles per hour. the wind itself, certainly nothing to be worried about, but a slick runway and then if the pilot comes in too hard and too long, in other words, doesn't give himself enough room to actually run the plane, that becomes a problem. and if you hit the arrester beds, which is what happened in this case last night, the plane went off the end of the runway and then into this crushable concrete material designed to stop a plane when it is coming in too hard, too fast, and it goes too far over the end of the runway. it goes into the ar...

The world's busiest airspace is in that region so the corridors are congested. there's a lot of planes flying and the middle class flying in indonesia. island to island short hops you're always in weather, chaotic weather is a big problem and indonesia doesn't have a very good safety track record in the area. so we have a pilot issue, in terms of the qualifications whether they are being paid enough, we have infrastructure air traffic control, we talk about data streaming and realtime tracking we're not even at the first step of that in those air yauz ofreas of the world. we have a long way to...

Normally otherwise do. that happens all the time, unfortunately. >> we want to stress again that there is no evidence, as of now, according to sources, about the pilots what solve. today the ceo of malaysia airlines did not speak specifically about the pilot or the co-pilot but said that all new pilots go through a thorough examination and have follow-up exams depending on conditions, such as their age. >> pamela, stay with us. i want to bring in evan perez and tom fuentes. i want to get back to that in a moment, the whole pilot issue. but interpol released an interesting statement today reall...