very bright where we were. it s roughly a bit to the north. we celebrate later than he disappeared. i m just wondering, we didn t think it was a likely collision course. what else could it be? multiple pilots reported these lights, but as an astronomer chimed in on the sighting, they suggested it could likely be a piece of dust entering the earth s atmosphere at a very high speed. november, a busy time for shooting stars, pilots and members of the military have reported sightings of similar objects in the past but dismissed as simple space dust. tucker: what is interesting about this is, these are commercial airline pilots who, by definition are, experts at identifying other aircraft, and lights at night, behavior in the skies.
the ground folks not so much but they are echoir what they call security identification display area. in other words they have to display this badge to other employees and to appropriate authorities, whether itby tsa, law enforcement. more than to go through a vetting procedure tpweufirst wie airline and finger prints. they have to go through an entire criminal background check. they have to see if they re tied to any potential terrorist organizations. so how does somebody like this who has no business getbug hind the kupbg troll aofz commercial airline do what he did? this man would go under the radar in full plain sight because he s got the uniform and the badge i are eferred to. he gets into this uniform.
at large for mashable along with international commercial airline pilot d.j. j. j. faust. d.j., you re already being guided by centers as you fly across the country that don t have any visual eyes on your aircraft, right? well, that s true. and though when we come in for a landing, though, we have eyes on us usually from the control tower. i do have some reservations about this new technology. obviously, look how good that drone just worked that just crashed there in l.a., right? so there s automation at its best, right? so there could be some complications with it. what also i m concerned about is not having the actual air traffic control people in the tower, tower operators, ground personnel who have that intuitive experience that know what s going to happen or what could possibly happen and avert possible disasters.
it. even if it s in russia. joining us now here in studio is debbie wasserman schultz, leader in the house of representatives in so many ways. congresswoman, what are you hearing? what is the latest you ve been told? well, what we ve been told is, obviously, what we already know that this was a plane, you know, a commercial airline shot out of the sky in an area where there are russian separatists that are in disputed territory and that have been the subject of the reason that we ve imposed economic sanks. what s critical right now from our perspective in the united states is that there be an immediate international credible investigation. do you think, do you have confidence that will happen? that is a big question right now even getting international monitors to the area is a big question. we heard from the president and every nation involved calling
there s no one that understands exactly how difficult that would be than the people who fly these sorts of planes. joining me now, latane campbell. 14 years of experience flying international. captain karen pellicone. pilot for another major u.s. commercial airline and ross amer. he spent five years flying the boeg 77boeing 777. now ceo of aero consulting. ross let me start with you. in the dark, with no ground control and presumably, it appears, certain automatic functions of the plane turned off, could you get this thing to ground in any way? or is that just an impossible task? no, chris. it s a simple thing for a pilot of that caliber that gets to fly a 777. that aircraft has onboard equipment that could be used to find your way basically anywhere around the world by itself. so you do think that even