Gone down somewhere in the french alps. Bill neely is in london. Anything more you can add . Yes, the fact that it has gone down in the french alps is not good. Its about 9,000 feet up with few roads leading to it. 142 passengers on board, two pilots and four crew. I suppose from a rescuers point of view thats very, very difficult terrain. At the moment it was not far into the flight from barcelona to d uss eldorf when it crashed. It is an airliner that is a subsidiary of the german airliner lufstanza. German wings is a low cost airliner. They were heading back probably from vacation in barcelona. Details are sketchy at the moment. The weather seemed to be fine. It was cloudy with just light wind. The pilot did send an sus urks srksstus urks srkss srkssuss sos message, but rescue teams are on the way. It is an inaccessible area. From a rescue point of view thats not good. Bill thank you very much. Tom costello covers aviation. You are just getting the details as we are. Talk about this
And the judgment and the knowledge to handle those dangerous events with which president s are inevitably confronted. Let me just ask you in the last couple of days, there has been a line of republicans both elected officials, unelected officials, most recently the 50 republicans who come from the National Security world. People like Michael Chertoff who is director of Homeland Security, director of intelligence. I know you talk about the khan family and these other incidents, but did that group because you serve on the Senate Intelligence committee, you were on Homeland Security. Did those 50 republicans also have an impact on your decision . I respect and worked closely with many of the 50 intelligence, defense and Homeland Security officials who signed that letter. But my decision was my own. It certainly was informed by the many years that i served as chairman of the senate Homeland Security, as well as the regular briefings that i receive now as a member of the intelligence commit