marine corps grounded its entire aircraft fleet. some 850 jets, helicopters anospreys killed 18 marines and a sailor. 14 noncombat aviation involving u.s. military aircraft. 40% higher than this point a year ago. the uptick in crashes has the chairman of the house armed services committee concerned. we re working these airplanes beyond their designed life. just last month for the first time in a fight against isis. u.s. navy was forced to ground fire squadron after two pilots suffered from decompression sickness. the cabin pressure issue has been pervasive enough that the navy requires all deployed aircraft carriers be equipped with decompression chambers. the pentagon says it has requested nearly $30 billion to fix the readiness issue. currently about 70% of
cockpit. giving them hundreds of pieces data parameters how this plane was performing. we re talking about alt, altitude, speed, vertical acceleration, head, pitch, roll. looking at engine performance, autopilot. whether there was, in fact a cabin pressure issue. all should be included in the flight data recorder. black boxes, there are various forms of black boxes. they don t all look like this come in various shapes and sizes. so i can t tell you exactly what that one looked like on that particular a320 but all do essentially the same thing. the key will be recovering that data as best they can and that should help explain some of what created this emergency. you know i ve got to tell you, every expert i talk to, jose is coming away scratching their heads on this one, because how do you go to 38,000 feet spend one to two, to three minutes there, then begin a programmed descent down to what appears to
realize you have a problem, you program in we got to get this plane down because we have a cabin pressure issue. why wouldn t you program it to go to 10,000 feet? then you level off and everybody can breathe again. why wouldn t you communicate on the way down? listen. we are all in the realm of theory right now t. theory was, you know when i was talking to one of these pilots listen when you are hypoxic, it s almost as if you are double drunk. it s very difficult to make very good decisions and you simply can ty straight. it s possible something might have dialled in descent, if you will, or let s get back down. right. but didn t program a target altitude. you know when you talk about payne stewart and there was a couple other examples when people they re hypoxic they can t think clearly and they make silly mistakes which you