ending their air strikes in yemen for now perhaps in response to president rouhani s plea. translator: we hope a proposal is realized for an immediate cease-fire. there s an opportunity for us to effect a political transition in yemen. reporter: meanwhile, the uss theodore is now shadowing the nine ships in the iranian convoy in launching aircraft including f-18 hornets to fireman reconnaissance near the iranian ships. what we just did was push all of the chips into the center of the table. now, if the iranians are dumb enough to call that, then we have to act on the hand because we have the winning hand. reporter: the state department tried to downplay
you ve been following this story closely. give us your thoughts. what we re hearing a lot of people talk about right now is the distress call that was made. clearly the pilot was in trouble. clearly the plane had a problem. my experience is an f-18. what happens is when you lose one system it causes you to lose other systems. at this point, all we can do is speculate because we don t know what happened yet. for example, if the airplane lost one engine, that could have caused other systems to have problems. or whatever caused that malfunction could have caused others as well. in airplanes like this, we ve been talking about how the airplane essentially flies itself in most cases, and then when there s an emergency, the pilot needs to take control and start handling the emergency. hands on to deviate from the flight plan that s been entered. not just that, but actually handling the systems themselves.
broke off the car. it takes the steering and wheels with it. the down force for the front wings. sthaz that happens it s like pulling the chic back on an f-18. and when i went into the air it was hard to react to it. i was hoping i would stay on the race track. i ve been through this once before 15 years ago. you want to stay on the race track and let the asphalt scrub the speed off the car and get you to stop as fast as possible. and not hit the other car too. that would have been twice as bad. al you re laughing and smiling. it happens 15 years ago. do i assume you re not quitting? gosh, no. i mean, it s that s what i do. my dad races cars in the 60s and 70s. ever since i was a little kid that s all i wanted to do. that s my environment my neighborhood. those are my friends out there. when you get on the race track you re in a competition.
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we thank you for joining us. that s a very good point that american airlines plane a couple weeks ago severe turbulence. thankfully nothing really bad happened to that. that s just an indication of the weather conditions especially in southern asia and that area which maybe now the pilot will have to take under consideration as they fly. as we ve been reporting this airasia plane disappeared amid stormy weather. the pilot did ask for a change of course due to bad weather in the area. we know that now. we re learning that dense storm clouds were detected up to 44,000 feet in the same area at the time the plane lost contact. leah gabriel a former navy f-18 pilot and fox news correspondent and anchor is here to sort through this. thank you for joining us today. i want to ask you right off the bat as we were reading through some of the information about