on your laptop or for $100 you can play a game of rand paul beanbag toss. and for $1,000 you can even have a bound copy of the u.s. constitution signed by none other than rand paul. on a sad note though seven people died yesterday morning when a small plane crashed on to an illinois field. they were returning from the ncaa men s basketball championship in indianapolis. among those killed two were from the illinois state university. deputy director of athletics aaron leech and men s basketball associate head coach torrey ward. authorities believe the heavy fog and light rain may have been partly to blame. what we can do from radar data is we can determine what s called ground speed. that s part of our investigation. it will be part of our follow-up activities. as you can imagine, the illinois state community is in mourning. the university tweeted, the redbird family lost two today. thanks to all across the country for reaching out. now to a bombshell in the aaron hernandez mur
is the ground speed because we are pulling it off of data was consistent, but the question is why didn t level out well above that terrain. again, they would have had warning and nobody the terrain and the on board information would have told them to pull up caution, caution, whoop whoop, and they didn t react to that. we don t know whether they were physicallyin cap as ated or couldn t command the airplane to recover. thank you both for your expertise. next up, we ll turn to the other breaking news we opened with this hour. the president and president gauning talking about troop levels and making news on israel. we ll go there live. that is next. scar® driver. i m kevin nealon comedian. and i m arnold palmer, professional golfer. know what we have in common? we talked to our doctors about treatment with xarelto®. me, when i had a blood clot in my leg that could have
the speeds increase enormously. we do know that the ground speed indicates over 400 miles an hour, so there is some issue that prevented the flight crew from either recovering at an altitude that would have provided them the ability to maintain an altitude above the terrain or there was an issue that prevented them, such as incapacitation incapacitation. that s yet to be determine or confirmed. hopefully, one of the boxes will tell us that. john let me come back to you and ask you about the maintenance of this plane. just yesterday, this plane had a maintenance check. does that surprise you in any way? the maintenance of the germanwings aircraft is known to be very, very good. the a-320 has a long service history. it has a distinguished service history, and the maintenance program that germanwings uses is
largely reclaimed land. 7,000 feet on either runway. and on a good day, you got to really put it down right where you should and get on the brakes really hard and do your job without any mistakes because there s not a lot of margin for error. on a day like today, it gets even trickier of course. low visibility, low clouds and a slick runway. that s a bad combination here. in this case, ashleigh, i d like i hope chad is still listening. the winds at la guardia right now are about 16 knots, getting close to 20 miles per hour as a tail wind. in other words, they would have been landing with the wind and so the airspeed of course is the same always, but the ground speed in this case would have been pushing the plane a little bit faster than it would have been if it had been flying into the wind. and so is it possible that that exasperated the situation here?
the pilot called ground control asking for permission to go 38,000. the maximum is 40,000 that kind of air bus can 90. didn t hear anything. that was the last we heard. after that, there was silence. no more may days nothing. when you look at the radar data there s troubling information. it is hard to know what was really happening because we re measuring ground speed and it may not be very accurate. what it does indicate is that the aircraft was dangerously close, if not at its stall speed. meaning not that it is quitting. it would fall out of the sky. so a big question here he was not cleared of that altitude and yet ascended. was at an emergency operation on the part of the pilot or an updraft which he could not control? was he going for a ride courtesy of mother nature? he was technically allowed to go up. even though he hadn t received permission. in an emergency situation, the captain can do anything he needs to preserve the souls on board the aircraft.