afghan leader. what took so long? even though i know personally people who have saved the life of the former president he never thanked them. this is a new relationship. i can tell you it was a different mood at the pentagon yesterday. for the folks who are watching yesterday, we hear the stories about how screwed up things are over there in afghanistan. looking forward, can it get better? it is totally messed up right now? it was interesting hearing president ghani talking about he had a statement where he quoted kennedy, ask not what you can do for us, but we are going to now stand on our own two feet. the problem is the u.s. is still going to have to fund the afghan government. the one lesson that was learned by this white house is you pull out of a country too quickly, you leave a vacuum and get isis. what you ll see in the meeting with the president is he ll slow
what about flying at that altitude, general? well, the altitude is he wants to keep his altitude as long as possible. is it high enough? it s about 6,800 feet, are you happy with that? say that altitude again. 6,800. no, i m not happy with that. too low? too low. that s the height of the mountain. that s the height of the mountain. i m sure he was around 30,000, 35,000, which the 320 normally levelled off on that type flight. if it they were tracking it ever since the distress call was made. if it disappeared off radar at 11:30 a.m., 33 minutes after the distress call. would it disappear off radar if it was at the mountain level or had it been off higher and disappeared off the screen? if it disappeared it means it got off the mountain.
information. it s being picked up by the associated press. german wings low cost airline out of berlin. one of their a 320s has gone down. joining us on the phone is our aviation expert. we re getting breaking details regarding this incident with the airplane. a large number of people on board, including crew and two pilots. give us your thoughts on this developing situation. it s a low cost airline in cologne. it has a couple of according to our reports she was lost at about 6,800 feet, which is mountaino mountainous. that implies a possible collision with a mountain, flying at perhaps too low an altitude. it s very unusual for an aircraft of this nature to lose
to either of those locations were this particular crash? were they taking off, landing, should they have been at 7,000 feet? it was lost at 6,800 feet. yes, that is heading into a mountainous area. so, yes, there is a possibility of simple misreading of an altitude or a control problem that brought the aircraft down into a position where it became jp, so there could be pilot error, could be something that malfunctioned with the instrument panel and the reads that prompted them to be at the incorrect altitude. because, otherwise, if it was pilot error, it doesn t make sense because you shouldn t be at that altitude in that area, correct? that s pretty much it. those type of things do occur. there are many times a pilot flying on a route might miss the minimum inroute altitude.
so far in terms of a weather report, some clouds and some light rain. that wouldn t be something to throw off an experienced pilot in a plane that size, correct? especially not at 31,000 feet. speaking of the weather our meteorologist here at fox just sent this to us. it looks like there was some rain and clouds over the northern mediterranean, but no major activity near barcelona or southern france, especially if they were at 31,000 feet flying altitude. he will put up a satellite image. he will put it on weather seven. it wouldn t have been a visibility issue. at this point it seems like that might be able to be ruled out. stand by. if you re just joining us. there is the that s the image of the weather radar. as you can see, nothing big. just like what sal was talking about over the alps at the time. it is currently 12:37 in the