CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield March 24, 2015 16:17:00
The distress call came from the ground to the plane, not from the plane. >> that's my understanding. with a lot of emergencies, we've talked about this before on air. it's aifuate, navigate and communicate. that may have been in the process of navigating so they weren't getting themselves into a terrain danger because they know, i'm sure, they're situationally aware of the terrain in the alps. and then they wanted to communicate. something stopped them from communicating directly because maybe they had a compound problem. 12k3w >> it's not as simple as hitting a button so that air traffic cont...