is, if it was deliberate, why not take the plane straight in? why program an eight-minute fatal descent? megyn. trace, thank you. so how is it that authorities can seemingly rule out terror so soon? let s bring in our panel. robert mark is publisher of jet wine.com and former pilot. and kathleen bangs is a former commercial airline pilot and former airline training instructor. thank you all for being here. jonathan, let me start with you as an investigator on your thoughts on how they can say so quickly that this was not terror? well, i don t think they can. i think it s important, megyn, to look at who s saying that. you have a prosecutor and also different people associated with the airlines that are saying that. the important thing here is that the investigators that are doing the investigating on the ground do not consider it absolutely not the possibility. they have to stay focused as they continue to investigate this. they re not offering you know, they say we know his na
is, if it was deliberate, why not take the plane straight in? why program an eight-minute fatal descent? megyn. trace, thank you. so how is it that authorities can seemingly rule out terror so soon? let s bring in our panel. robert mark is publisher of jet wine.com and former pilot. and kathleen bangs is a former commercial airline pilot and former airline training instructor. thank you all for being here. jonathan, let me start with you as an investigator on your thoughts on how they can say so quickly that this was not terror? well, i don t think they can. i think it s important, megyn, to look at who s saying that. you have a prosecutor and also different people associated with the airlines that are saying that. the important thing here is that the investigators that are doing the investigating on the ground do not consider it absolutely not the possibility. they have to stay focused as they continue to investigate this. they re not offering you know, they say we know his na
michelle, thank you. thank you. there is word of another attempt to ambush police officers amid increased tensions between police and protesters nationwide. police say they are searching for a suspect after somebody fired a rifle at two cops as they drove through south l.a. last night. the officers apparently fired back. nobody was hurt in the shootings. cops say they have arrested one suspect but are still looking for another. the shooting came roughly a week after man shot and killed two nypd officers in brooklyn before killing himself. continuing coverage of the search for the missing airasia flight. we ll speak with a former commercial airline pilot who has flown the area where the plane disappeared.
it could be days weeks, possibly even months before we learn answers to essential questions about flight 8501 and some may never be answered at all. we re following the conversation on twitter. we re here to answer at least some of your questions with a couple of our guests who are experts here contributing editor to flying magazine les abend and also with us patrick smith commercial airline pilot and air travel columnist. les, welcome back patrick thanks for joining us. i ll start with you, patrick. we have a question why didn t the pilot just turn around and head back to the airport until the weather was clean? well it s very unusual for a crew and you say the pilot. i just want to throw something in here. we hear this in the media over and over. it s the pilots. there are always two fully qualified pilots in the cockpit. i m a co-pilot.
happened at this night no. the international air transport association which represents 250 airlines, reported earlier this month that this year was among the safest when measured against the volume of traffic john. what about that, the record low number of crashes. the network shows there have been seven deadly crashes so far, the lowest in memory, despite the nature of this year s disasters. some of the more significant fatal aviation commercial crashes include the presumed 239 people killed in the malaysia airlines crash and the 298 people killed in the malaysian airlines crash in ukraine. if airasia is confirmed to have gone down that will make a total of eight crashes this year. thank you. more now on that missing asian eric flight. jptrestoni chinas us a former commercial airline pilot who flew the same region. when you heard of those