Page 13 - Value Jet News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Plus now they have developed this business model for low-cost airlines. if you look at the way airasia is structured, you look at southwest airlines this is a common fleet. they use airbuses they use boeings. so now they're understanding you can move people with ultra low cost carriers no-filly airlines. the question is does the regulatory authority like in malaysian or china, have the ability. we had that problem when i investigated value jet, one of the big issues that came out of value jet, it was an ultra low low-cost carrier. it was growing so fast monetarily that the oversight by the reg...

When you do these kind of investigations you talk more about evidence. we are reporting about the likelihood that the plane is actually down and in the ocean. walk us through the process, day three of the search what kind of evidence these folks are looking at and how that adds up to the story we're being told about what happened. >> from my perspective, it was similar to value jet. you have a two-part process here. we're trying to recover the wreckage because that will give us evidence or clues as to what occurred with the aircraft. hopefully we'll know exactly how the airplane broke up, whet...

Treachery that goes with that route this time of the year. alister, are you there? he has disappeared and we will get him back in a moment. okay. where we left off, we will pick up on the idea of whether or not it is the basically the pilot or if it is weather or a kom bi combination of both? >> well, it is in some ways unusual the pilot, and the crew members did not radio an emerge emergency, but there is the culture of the cockpit in which the pilots are loathe to declare emergencies. in valuejet, the terrible accident and the pilots never declared emergency. >> that sounds like a big defici...

They are sitting waiting and watching of course there's not much they can do because the search effort is halted at this point. >> we were talking with will and with andrew at the airport about the families you know a lot about family assistance, because you wrote the book on it literally, right? >> in 1996 twa value jet and earlier the u.s. air accident pittsburgh the families came together and were pushing the ntsb and i chaired a -- and we wrote the family assistance act that congress passed in 1996 that really set the worldwide standard and has been taken up by virtually every other countr...

>> it is bravado? >> a little bit of it. and you think it had to be a catastrophic event if neither one of them and generally the pilot flying is not handling the radio. >> and the three words that we say is aif yat, and keep the airplane flying and navigate and then communicate. and communicate is three. and peter talked about it with valujet, and they knew they had a roaring fire and trying to get back at mimeami international airport and talking is a lower priority and that in some kind of to a rapidly deteriorating and catastrophic situation. >> and let me ask you a question rene, and mayb...