about people. the defense officials i ve spoken with about this have reinforced it s not a threat to commercial aviation at its altitude and doesn t pose a threat to people on the ground when it s flying around. again, if that situation changes while they re watching it, i think that s when we might see some sort of change in action here. general, what s your read on this? well, it s a strange, uncoordinated action by the chinese. they have been getting increasingly aggressive, harassing our own intelligence collection platforms seen in the air. this thing was hardly covert. for god sakes, as courtney explained, it s enormous. it was spotted by commercial airline pilots. it was photographed from the ground. by the way, there s a question in my mind how did they intend to recover their sensor package. to some extent it doesn t make whole bunch of sense. it is a persistent, low cost, low level collection asset.
The Obama Administration has had an institutional hostility toward the concept of arming pilots and specifically the Federal Flight Deck Officer program since the very beginning. The President’s fiscal year 2013 budget slashes the FFDO in half, and the Transportation Security Administration has resisted the program from the beginning. Retired U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Al Aitken discusses the history and effectiveness of the Armed Pilot program established in December 2002.
and it s a very delicate system. ifnt there s a disruption in one part of the system, it has a catastrophic effect among the rest of the system, which is going to affect commerce, it s going to affect trade, and ultimately it s going to affect the economy. if you have flights reduced by 30% because 30% of pilots are fired because they won t take the vaccine, this is going to affect how your goods get here from overseas, how they are distributed to the store. h the same thing is happening with the truckers, it s happening in the shipping industry. those amazon boxes that typically show up in two days you might be looking at three weeks. tucker: so i mean, it turns out that people with the essential skills like airline mechanics and traffic controllers and yes, commercial airline pilots, have more power maybe than they realized. you ve got to wonder if people are being pushed to the point where they re going to be fired how many more of these sick
heart and soul of this country, and it s a very delicate system. if there s a disruption in one part of the system, it has a catastrophic effect among the rest of the system, which is going to affect commerce, it s going to affect trade, and ultimately it s going to affect the economy. if you have flights reduced by 30% because 30% of pilots are fired because they won t take the vaccine, this is going to affect how your goods get here from overseas, how they are distributed to the store. the same thing is happening with the truckers, it s happening in the shipping industry. those amazon boxes that typically show up in two days, you might be looking at three weeks. tucker: so i mean, it turns out that people with the essential skills like airline mechanics and traffic controllers and yes, commercial airline pilots, have more power navy than they realized. you ve got to wonder if people are being pushed to the point where they re going to be fired, how many more of these sick outs, job
there is this kind of self-reporting hotline that the federal government has for commercial airline pilots where they can report issues with aircraft or their work circumstance. when they ve now heard that five pilots have come forward and made complaints that they were fighting with the aircraft, that the aircraft did a quick nose down shortly after they put on the automatic pilot, that sounds like the sort of things we ve been hearing in the initial phases of the investigation of both of these fatal crashes overseas. the faa says it s still safe. we have breaking news coming out of the courthouse in washington, d.c. that is that paul manafort has begun speaking before the judge amy berman jackson who will issue a sentence to him. we have our team outside the courthouse. pamela, shimon, we have one of our colleagues inside the room.