approximation where it is it will rear its ugly head. it landed somewhere nicely or will be used on secondary mission or tried to do that and it crashed somewhere. bill: thank you from new york here. aviation professor and aviation attorney with your even simulator that you worked on for many years. thank you, sir. thank you, bill. bill: all right. heather: well investors looking ahead to comments from federal reserve chair janet yellen, now time to take a look at the markets right now. there is a live look for you. the dow closed yesterday up 89 points. we will keep an eye on the markets throughout the show for you to see what is happening today. bill: certainly will. heather, talk about a close call, did you see this? wow. check it out. roll it. man, that s a truck going airborne. we ll tell you what sent this truck flying and who was on the side of the road that was just missed. heather: really close.
started drifting to the west or changed before it left the ground or even taking off that night at 12:41 a.m. we re trying to piece this together. brenner is a very, very good source on this we ll talk a little bit more about that. what is on the deleted files? bill: that we do not know. whether or not that is even relevant in this entire investigation. so whether we get it, we ll pass it to you. all right. meantime we do have other breaking news to talk to you about this morning. toyota and the justice department reportedly nearing a $1.2 billion settlement in order to avoid criminal charges. it all stems from a series of mysterious acceleration incidents linked to 13 deaths. stu varney, host of varney & company on the fox business network joins us right now. steve or stu, what is the latest on this? well, heather, this is the unwanted acceleration problem that burst into the headlines four years ago. remember there was a lexus speeding down the highway,
that were on the street. the pilot and the news photographer, they were both killed. a man inside the car, he was able to get out but he was badly burned. witnesses say that it was obvious the helicopter was in trouble. i didn t see the chopper go down but i certainly heard it. but it was evident that something was wrong. i didn t hear anything until the crash and the explosion. i turned around. saw that it was clearly a chopper that it was in flames. i heard a boom. and engine sounded a little bit heavy so, i heard the boom and i looked up and two seconds later the flames started spreading out. i saw the guy coming out of the car with his body on fire and i saw also the truck that was hit. and then chaos. heather: seattle s mayor meantime says the city is now reviewing rules for helipads. bill: got a lot of breaking news now on ukraine as well. a lot to move through already
because the transponder was not transmitting when asked why it took so long to release the data, a thai government minister the object or flight did not present a direct threat and was never in their airspace. bill: when you get more come back, catherine herridge. leading the coverage in washington on that. heather has more. bombshell from former faa spokesman scott brenner. he says i now believes the plane was intentionally taken off course. listen. one of the pilots clearly had intention as soon as the plane took off he would take it in another direction. why, i have no idea. it is very clear, the fact that the transponder was turned off. the fact that the aye cars data was turned off. this is 100% clear this copilot or pilot took the plane with the intent of doing something bad. you heard him, 100% clear. you heard him say pilots started
what does this prove? reporter: it shows prior intent. was it a mechanical problem or they be attempt to take the airport? 30 minutes on the way to beijing it took a turn by punching a code in the auto pilot. 12 minutes before that, the copilot told the tower all right, good night. if there was a mechanical issue on board why didn t he tell air traffic control and request a new landing spot? we know within the first 26 minutes, they had reprogrammed the plan and were turning west far before they signed off with air traffic control. reporter: so bill, the last thing that is odd about that, and you can probably figure this