be able work problems when there was a crisis that came to light. we know that the asian air industry has been exploding thousands of planes on order. new pilots saying they had to hire a couple hundred thousand pilots here in the next few years and decades as aviation in asia explodes. are the asian carriers training their pilots as well or are they bringing them through the pipeline in a way that when things start going wrong, it s clearly that they did in this case, that the pilots know how to deal with the emergency? well n this particular case, the captain was a former military fighter pilot. so i m not quite sure we can make that correlation in this case. and anybody who flies an airplane will have a tremendous amount of eye/hand coordination experience flying tactical airplanes and high-performance swift-wing airplanes. the issue of are we going to be swayed to the autopilot and
able fly for this fare. myles, picking up on what christine says when you have first-hands like this does this put a chill over the entire air industry? you know we really should john this is what makes af aviation so safe. we all learn from mistakes frankly, pilots spend an awful lot of time talking about these scenarios with the hope we all learn something from it. if you don t stop take stock, get that chilledesque you are not going to make aviation safer. the term that we use, it s bored. the rules are written in blood. it is the crashes which makes us safe. what worries me here we tend to see repeats of events in this case i see at early stages here, a lot of similarities with air france 447. there are outstanding questions on that that may have been addressed. we will keep asking the questions. thank you so much. the mystery deepening into
where they can sneak them by. we heard that thing she just depicted a moment ago about in advance of the sochi olympics where they were looking for toothpaste tubes or cosmetic tubes, something in there, maybe combined with the shoes? who knows? they re still after the shoe bomb. keep in mind, you have this story which got everyone worried about terror and al-qaeda. then we had the story about 45 minutes ago about this group that discovered this 22 al-qaeda sympathizing camps within this country. villages. islamic extremist camp and the f.b.i. is watching them right here in the u.s., including probably the biggest one this dallas. then you figure this videotape released in court yesterday that showed that one of bin laden s the shoe bomber on camera saying that bin laden was determined to attack us after 9-11 because he believes our economy was one big link on a chain and if we could blow up another link, which would be another plane, that would destroy the air industry and bri
affairs. neil: but do you they they knew or they just didn t . guest: watergate changed all that. suddenly reporters made the reputations not by being indebted with the establishment. but breaking loose and doing investigative reporting. neil: you reveal bigger things, the securing, and i never heard this until your fine book, the pan am deal for flights for he and his family, that alone, i think of my exclusive contract and dunken doughnutted kidding but the bosses got iny about it. guest: but he did not get fired because he had done military aviation and he worked for the airlines industry in kansas and covered the air industry a lot, he went on a junket and he was caught on it