this door controlling to gel switch with warning lights is normally installed on the pedestal that can also be located on the overhead panel on request. and joining us, two pilots who fly air bus a-320 dj frost and rick. dj, let me go first to you. i guess when you get into the cockpit, when you fly a plane, you don t know, necessarily know who is going to be next to you, do you? not like somebody that you necessarily fly with all time? many times you are dealing with a new crew member, sometimes you fly with the same people i also want to process this and say of all the airlines that they talked, about none have been u.s. registered airline. so i wanted people to keep that in perspective as they spring break and busy travel season. none of these were u.s. registered aircraft. in addition to that rick not only is this not a u.s. carrier, none of these incidence have been u.s. carriers. actually so far as we know the planes have been
this door controlling to gel switch with warning lights is normally installed on the pedestal that can also be located on the overhead panel on request. and joining us, two pilots who fly air bus a-320 dj frost and rick. dj, let me go first to you. i guess when you get into the cockpit, when you fly a plane, you don t know, necessarily know who is going to be next to you, do you? not like somebody that you necessarily fly with all time? many times you are dealing with a new crew member, sometimes you fly with the same people i also want to process this and say of all the airlines that they talked, about none have been u.s. registered airline. so i wanted people to keep that in perspective as they spring break and busy travel season. none of these were u.s. registered aircraft. in addition to that rick not only is this not a u.s. carrier, none of these incidence have been u.s. carriers. actually so far as we know the planes have been
because when you re coming in at that speed. it s actually your tail doing most of the steering for you. obviously having a tweaked, a sideways front wheel isn t going to help you, but the air rushing past your tail is really what s going to keep that plane lined up down the runway at those speeds. megyn: and so what he was saying is what your you were saying. trying to keep the belly, the nose of the plane up just to kill the speed and then, how fast will the plane be going when they try to touch the nose down? i just, i m taking it from the helicopter pilot. i don t fly an lear jet, but i m guessing that the chopper pilot said about 80 miles an hour which is still significant, obviously. megyn: right, right. but you re coming in for landing at about 120 and you bleed off about 40 miles per hour of speed and 40 knots, roughly. and then that nose gear touches town. megyn: and is dj frost still with us? the commercial pilot with us by phone momentarily, a moment ago. is he sti
do not know the number of people on board, we know it s reported they re having landing gear problems and both of the pilots who we have with us today. jon scott and dj frost, a commercial airline pilot, tell us that this should be handleable. it s a problem that s not all of these things are potentially catastrophic, but it should be handleable by a trained pilot as we watch the u.s. air force attempt to help this lear jet by at least doing fly-byes that might mimic what the lear jet is going to experience and perhaps give information to those in the control tower at least. dj is back, dj frost. were you the pilot on board a flight such as this? is there anything? do you believe the passengers are being told to sit in a certain way, to brace for impact? what if anything do you tell the passengers at a time like this. oh, absolutely. you ll make sure everybody knows the correct position and what to do when you do give the brake signal for the the emergency landing and right now, too,
the air force plane flying that at first we thought was the plane. those are wing tip fuel tanks. you can see them at the end. and does that change your assessment of the dangerous situation here, if it s integral inside the wing as opposed to the bubble on the end of it? well, it s probably, it s probably better, i know that in, i ve never had wing tip fuel tanks, but some of them are designed essentially to snap off in case of impact and they have valves on them that close so that the fuel doesn t come spraying out. it s incredible when you think of the safety mechanisms on board the planes and not just the commercial jetliners, obviously, lear jets are expensive aircrafts and all of them are out closet they provide for the pilots. i want to bring in dj frost, i m told you ve flown into this airport in st. louis many times, dj. can you give us perspective on it? sure, two big long parallel runways, and better