how come there was no fire? was there a fuel issue here? that requires speculation that i can t make at this point. do you know how much time elapsed the. 40,000 people a year die in automobile accidents every year on the highway. and when there is an accident that somebody doesn t die in, you don t get that question. so don t know at this point. how could do have lost power? flying in an aircraft, it all takes experience. this pilot is an experienced pilot. and i ll say what is the procedure for investigating it? it doesn t have a black box? where do you start?
injuries? i cannot. all i know is what the fire department has told me. we have not been in touch with anybody at the hospital and that is we belief that he is going to survive. you said that it appeared that this pilot left santa monica airport, took off, and then did he circle back around in an attempt to come back to the runway? i m responding to the information of the atc tape that s apparently have already been played because that s where i heard it from. the pilot reported a loss of engine power and was attempting to return. mr. jones, can you confirm or deny if it was harrison ford on that plane? next question. how come there was no fire? was there a fuel issue here?
be looking at what would have caused the engine to fail. unfortunately right after takeoff is the most dangerous time for engine performance. it s not been running for a i while, so it could be anything. you don t know whether it was a fuel issue an engine issue or mechanical issue. i know you have had your own i m sorry. go ahead. i didn t mean to interrupt you. what we do know is that harrison did a wonderful job of putting it down safely and away from any populating areas. and that itself is quite a task in these aircraft that do not have much of a dplied ratio. and you know that all too well. you yourself was flying a plane like this and you also experienced engine trouble and had a crash landing, i understand it. tell us about that.
also to a lesser extent on a more practical level an ita representing the industry. you have an imperfect system here in which most of the actual decision power to actually say you re not allowed to fly there is at the national level in what s a very international system and not all the individual countries, or of course the airlines as your reporter already said, have the knowledge or expertise themselves. so they rely on this cooperative engagement internationally to know is this route safe now or not. but glen, you had a situation where sorry to drop. an accusation being made towards the one who did fly over the eastern ukraine was they were doing it to save money. it was a fuel issue and cost
ended up in this area? is that feasible? of course he could have disabled various systems. but to completely shut off the acars, he would have had to go back into the e and e, the electronics and engineering compartment that s eight feet behind the cockpit and down below the galley. and basically vacate the cockpit. the evidence is such that the acars system was being pinged by the satellite. so he would have had to disable that, too. it just seems so implausible to me. you must be talking to pilots all the time about this. i m talking to random people in the street about this. everyone s obsessed with it for one reason, the mystery remains a mystery. when you talk to pilots, experienced, long service pilots, what is the general feeling you re now getting about what they think is the most likely scenario here? most of them kind of align with my malfunction theory and with the fuel issue we just brought up where it is plausible it could have gone a certain