you mentioned after the new york crash in october of 2006, cory lidle, the rules changed for flying around municipal areas, especially new york city. with the new rules in new york and no new york area, it is monitored and tight area to fly. and i would say that i would not fly over the hudson river, for example. a place like austin is it almost impossible to have that kind of monitoring like have you in new york after the lidle crash? austin is a mid-sized airport. there s not the same amount of monitoring taking place, new york, chicago or washington. and it is pretty tough when you see something like this happen. and be able to catch it on time. i want to talk to you about another type of monitoring. reagan national airport has different rules for small planes, private planes that want to fly in. we have an animation showing the flight path into reagan national. have you a knowledge of that being a flight instructor in this area. small plane pilot have to do to be able to
new york, october, 2006, baseball player cory lidle crashed into a high-rise building in new york city killing himself and another person. that was accidental. you have milan, italy, april of 2002, where a private pilot crashed into the pirelli tower. ruled most likely accidental. tampa bay, florida, january of 2002. 15-year-old flight student crashes a plane into the bank of america building. that was ruled a suicide. let s first talk about the intentional crashes. today and also in tampa in 2002. what s to prevent your perspective as a flight instructor, who is to prevent a private pilot from getting in his own plane and to slam into a building from a security standpoint of the small airport? if the airplane is a rental aircraft, there is a group of people that will dispatch an aircraft on the airplane. there is definitely some scrutiny there before we hand out the keys. if the plane is owned by that
question outstanding is this, he was also involved we are told by federal law enforcement with the torching of his house before he took off in the airplane and we don t know what the linkage might be there. why? a big question at this point, wolf. thank you, jeanne meserve. we bring in fran townsend, former homeland security adviser to president bush. the government, how does it monitor these incidents? what is going on? well, earlier in the broadcast, wolf, brian todd talked about oftentimes we have seen these sorts of incidents happens as an accident in the case of cory lidle sliding into the building there, but there is a 15-year-old in tampa where it was a suicide event. but people in small private aircraft all of the time all around the country, everyday and take off and land safely. so, this is a small fraction, the ones that come to public attention and end tragically, but this guy, the investigators will look at were there warning signs? he was clearly angry and posted