look, dana, we have 16 years now of wear an tear on our military, particularly our navy and air force and the air. these planes are falling out of the sky. probably from lack of maintenance and from a lack of training. we have to ask ourselves as tensions are so hot in korea, can we handle that plus continuing the wars in afghanistan and iraq and everything we have going around the world? one more point. the three carriers that are off the coast right now, off the north korean coast as a show of force, the navy had to basically scrap the rest of its aviation fleet to be able to staff those carrier. that should ring alarm bells everywhere. we have to support our military with its budget in congress and stop the constant. dana: the president focused on that, even tweeting this morning the military is getting stronger. but obviously, from what you just said, we ve got a lot to do. we have a lot of work to do to reset after the last 16 years. dana: thanks for being here.
at the pentagon with the breaking details. not a lot is known except for the worst people of ninformatio. 16 people lost in this plane that crashed in mississippi. nobody knows what happened to it. it is not clear if the pilot was able to make a may day call or give any signal that the plane was in distress. the video from the ground showing the wreckage, the flames, it crashes into some sort of field or apparent agricultural area. this plane is a real work horse at the u.s. military. this marine corps plane is used for refuelling and hauls cargo and troops. it is one of the decades old work horses of the entire aviation fleet. the marine now investigating in several hours from now when they
aviation fleet. you were talking earlier about the numbers of take-offs and landings all around the world using this aircraft type. what we see from not just this aircraft type but all of our transport category aircraft is that they are incredibly safe. they have a tremendous safety record. it gets better every year when you talk about reliability and performance of the aircraft. but we have to understand when we have events like this we have to understand what happened why it happened and how we can prevent something like this from occurring in the future. and i think until we find that wreckage we still have a lot of unanswered questions. seems like we are in this age of being in constant contact with other human beings certainly, at any given minute every few minutes, a lot of us are touching base with someone and yet when it comes to airplanes, there seem to be these gaps. why aren t there better realtime tracking devices on commercial
of russian built planes with and it operates on the fringe of regulation. so you don t know how much training their pilots have had, how much experience they have. it s really something american consumers really ought to stay off these kinds of airlines and thankfully none were on this one. what about the 737 itself? that is sort of the work horse of the u.s. aviation fleet. does this accident raise any concerns about the 737? no. it doesn t. it s the most ubiquitous aircraft in the air today. it probably had 150 seats in it. this particular aircraft has been owned and sold by a half a dozen other air carriers which would lead to a question of do they really have the maintenance records of the aircraft? was it maintained to the type of
obviously the newer models can fly more than 8,000 nautical miles without stopping to refuel. it cruises about 43,000 feet. were there ever many issues with the triple 7? nothing that is in the league we re talking about today. if you go back to 1990 when it came into service there was the usual teething problems but since then we ve had the triple 7, 200. we ve had the er. we ve had the lr, the 300. we are now on the triple 7 300 er. the one that crashed today was a 200. er standing for extended range. more than 1400 have been sold. if you look at the u.s. aviation fleet, if you look at united, look at delta, american particularly american and