Small plane crashed into a home. I heard glass breaking, people yelling for their lives. A new cbs news investigation. Airline mechanics say they feel pressured to skip steps on maintenance. They try to pressure the ndividual not to write it up. The dynasty continues coglor and the dynasty making age irrelevant. How could this not motivate you . Glor good evening. Im jeff glor. And this is our western edition. Were going to begin here tonight with a state capital in chaos and ripple effects reaching across the country. Today more National Leaders called for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to resign over a racist picture that appeared on his 1984 medical School Yearbook page. Northam appears to be standing firm. Now the man who would succeed him is also facing allegations from his past. Ed okeefe reports tonight from richmond. No, we will not get over it until he has removed himself. Reporter protests in the streets and pleas from lawmakers so far havent convinced virginia democratic Go
all of that financial aid? that s a good question. in fact, dana, some people say supply is $63 billion. so was there some mismanagement here? obviously because they let too many people take early retirement and too many people haven t come back. what we re really seeing is sort of a mismanaged thing here because delta, southwest, united, american are not short of pilots. the problem is they re trying to fly 2019 schedules with 2022 staffing. if we look at the regional carriers, however, though, they have a problem. there s not a lot of people going into aviation. and what happens with the senior people at those regional carriers is they re getting picked up by the main line airlines. so raising the age is a bit of a temporary stop gap. it s really not addressing the underneath problem which is why can t we get more people interested in becoming airline pilots and airline mechanics? that s what we need to do. that s what the government if they re going to meddle in this, that s what
and it s a very delicate system. ifnt there s a disruption in one part of the system, it has a catastrophic effect among the rest of the system, which is going to affect commerce, it s going to affect trade, and ultimately it s going to affect the economy. if you have flights reduced by 30% because 30% of pilots are fired because they won t take the vaccine, this is going to affect how your goods get here from overseas, how they are distributed to the store. h the same thing is happening with the truckers, it s happening in the shipping industry. those amazon boxes that typically show up in two days you might be looking at three weeks. tucker: so i mean, it turns out that people with the essential skills like airline mechanics and traffic controllers and yes, commercial airline pilots, have more power maybe than they realized. you ve got to wonder if people are being pushed to the point where they re going to be fired how many more of these sick
heart and soul of this country, and it s a very delicate system. if there s a disruption in one part of the system, it has a catastrophic effect among the rest of the system, which is going to affect commerce, it s going to affect trade, and ultimately it s going to affect the economy. if you have flights reduced by 30% because 30% of pilots are fired because they won t take the vaccine, this is going to affect how your goods get here from overseas, how they are distributed to the store. the same thing is happening with the truckers, it s happening in the shipping industry. those amazon boxes that typically show up in two days, you might be looking at three weeks. tucker: so i mean, it turns out that people with the essential skills like airline mechanics and traffic controllers and yes, commercial airline pilots, have more power navy than they realized. you ve got to wonder if people are being pushed to the point where they re going to be fired, how many more of these sick outs, job
fire, the national transportation safety board will not send its so-called go team. rather they ll send in some of their engineers to look at the engine, to look at the debris to determine if there was an obvious malfunction here to determine whether there needs to be some sort of new guidelines sent out to other airline mechanics to determine that this could be a problem. but at this point, it appears to be relatively good news in that there was a plane fire, that it was right there on the runway and that all the passengers and all the crew got off. we hope to talk to some of those passengers shortly. kerry, let me ask you, do we know how many passengers were on board? i know you got that new figure, 14 transported to area hospitals. do we know how many people were on board yet? come on over. we just received word there were 101 people and crew on board the aircraft. among the injure, one patient sustained burn injuries, the rest are other injuries. that s the information from our