Disappoint them to hear that i did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. Just a broken guy. Got a few screws loose, i guess. Never really knew it until now. Think about landing this successfully, will alaska give me a job as a pilot . I think theyll give you a Job Doing Anything if you can pull this off. Yeah, right. If you wanted to land, probably the best bet is that runway just ahead to your left. Thats the mccord field. If you wanted to try, that might be the best way to see if you could land there. Or just like the pilot suggested, another option would be over puget sound into the water. Dang, you talk to mccord yet . Because i dont think id be happy with you telling me i could land like that. The ground and dealing with more of a Brush Fire Type of incident, as you know, its been in the washington and seattle area. Theyre dealing with these type of fires quite a bit lately. So how difficult was it to get to the scene . We know this was a heavily wooded ar
Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Investigators will be trying to figure out the motive based on what they have seen so far. The fbi says they do not believe this was a Terrorist Threat and they do not believe theres any additional criminal activity associated with this. Another major issue, authorities will surely look at is security access, the fact that could happen at all. All entities will do what they call a hot watch, they will review incident and look at all of the things happened and look for the holes and why employee had access to aircraft and try to determine where it was broken down and with that theyll be able to strengthen the system. Former dhs officials spoken to fox news today say at this Point Mental Health seems to be the primary issue when it comes to this situation. The challenge on this particular case as
took it into the air, did a number of stunts over the skies of sieeattle and purposely crasd on an island nearby. officials have yet to reveal the identity of the person responsible for this crash. only to say his age and confirm he was a 3.5 year employee of the airline. airlines trying to figure out what led to this and why the individual decided he was going to take on this huge risk and investigating whether or not there were any security proto l protocols that were violated and whether or not they can close some of those loopholes. the press conference just wrapping up a few minutes ago and our kyung lah was in the press conference. they didn t reveal that much information from what we were trying to learn about this situation. now, what was your biggest takeaway? reporter: there were a few takeaways for me. we did get some of the nuances of exactly who this employee
another question. okay, we are going to pull out of this press conference now. we ll continue to monitor it but we want to talk about what we heard. bring in cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh and transportation analyst and former inspector general mary schiavo and rear admiral john kirby. thank you all for joining me. we just were hearing there from the ceo of alaska airlines, horizon airlines representatives there as well. fbi agent, the special agent in charge for that area. and i would imagine that a lot of what we heard didn t come as too much of a surprise but mary, i want to start with you. the one thing that stood out to me, they made very clear there was no security breach here. this was someone who had the credentials to be where he was. he basically just took advantage of the situation. was that your sense? well, technically, there s no security breach in terms of credentialing but again, the
what the air traffic situation was at the time, the dependencies that the flight crew and legitimate scenario would require in terms of coordination with the ground crew and their air traffic control to prepare for that departure. we saw him do some incredible maneuvers in the air. if this person apparently didn t have pilot experience, how could he have done those maneuvers, based on what you saw in the air? sure. and you re right, there were some maneuvers that were done that were incredible maneuvers with the aircraft. to our knowledge, he didn t have a pilot s license. so to be honest with you, i mean, commercial aircrafts are complex machines. they re not as easy to fly as, say, a cessna 150 so i don t know how he achieved the experience that he did.