the world to fly because it was made before the 1950s to a different certification standard, and those wings are rather straight. modern training aircraft have a dyhedral. it kind of baby carriages the fuselage. then again he landed the millennium falcon at one point, so clearly he s a skilled aviation man. we re getting a closer look at the incident at laguardia airport yesterday. it narrowly escaped a plunge into frigid waters. landing at laguardia is a difficult thing to do in any circumstances. how much do you think this situation prompts a sort of revisitation as far as the dangers that are the institutional dangers of landing
mystery of malaysia airlines flight 370 is as rare as it gets. modern commercial air travel has become so safe that when something does go wrong, it is a massive challenge to find out what it actually was. from an intellectual and from an emotional standpoint. so what are the odds of something like this actually happening? if you ask the faa, and i m going to quote them, the certification standard for a failure or combination of failures that would prevent an airplane from successfully landing on a runway must be one in a billion flights. that s not hours. that s flights. want to bring back in lieutenant colonel michael kay and cnn safety analyst, david soucie. david is also a former faa inspector. first of all, david, i could not believe when i heard that statistic, given what we have been dealing with the last 24 days. but it truly is a standard of one in a billion. if that s the case, why do we have air crashes fairly more