Brussels has been a very hightension area for the police and for these terrorists who have been hiding out in belgium, so we do not know yet if this is an act of terrorism. We do know there have been two explosions reported at the Brussels Airport. And right now youre seeing the live pictures of the people who have been taken out of the airport. Obviously, its daytime in brussels, a very, very busy time of the day. And police seem to have the people arranged. Theyre keeping it very, very calm and trying to not panic. They dont know if these were set explosions, if this was an accident. Of course theyre looking into it to make sure that they have an understanding of why these explosions happened and if it was an act of terrorism or not. We do know that one was an explosion at the curb departure area of the airport in brussels where they say there have been multiple casualties. Now there are reports saying there are several dead, but we do not have a count on how many people have actuall
I want to bring in mary schiavo, a cnn aviation analyst. She also represents victims and families after airline disasters. Good tuesd good to see you. We have more audio trsmissions. Were hearing from the Turkish Airline pilots who were trying to locate egyptair 804 as well as you heard from pilots of another egyptair flight. So how routine is that for other airlines in the area to also try to reach out to an aircraft that air Traffic Control no longer has contact with . Actually, thats very typical in air Traffic Control around the world. United states also is trained to do that. When they cant reach them, there are other Communications Lines that they can use. And they actually ask other pilots literally to use their eyes. Do they see anything, can they see the plane, anything burning, anything in the sky. Many tragedies, both daytime, nighttime, passenger, small planes, often air Traffic Control does that. In the face of a missing aircraft thats a common and typical response. And th
And come out and then running out and additional reports of shots being fired at the airport. But i just talked to the mayor and she reports that it was just one shooter and one shooter only. Lets talk to gary who was in terminal 3. Gary, you are live on cnn tell me what you saw and heard. Yes, i was in terminal 3, just off my plane from philadelphia and i am no longer art t at the airport. There were tons of different Law Enforcement officers, armored vehicles, police from every agassi i saw there, it was a very scary scene. There were people running and crying, and i wasnt aware of what was going on, i thought the girl was just upset, but it turned out to be a much more serious situation and they started collecting people around bottle necking people around to get out of there but my ride came so im all safe and sound. You are one of the lucky few to get out of there. Gary just quickly, did you say you did or you did not hear the pop pop pop of the gun . I did not hear any pop pop po