southern virginia and the capitol was on high alert, for temporarily during the incident. but we ve also learned that the owner of the plane is on court motors from melbourne, florida, had the reportedly of the three passengers on the plane coming it was a starter, nanny and a child. in the pilot appears to have lost consciousness in writing many of well remember the pain stuart fights, the golfers that went down in the pilot had died of hypoxia because the pressure had gone down in the plane. ntsb is investigating and the faa will be investigating but a very sad day for those passengers. trey: yes jennifer, that is exactly what i was thinking was about pain stuart and i m sure it is happened to other pilots as well. and it certainly will i guess evers is a medical incident. and for folks wondering why the
medical incident or hypoxia. ntsb is investigating the cause of the crash. there were no survivors, bill. bill: jennifer griffin live in d.c. tragic situation. dana: let s bring in scott brenner, executive vice president as crossroad strategies. a very tragic end for this family. bill: it is troubling when you hear with all the advances we ve made in aircraft safety, something like this happens and still unclear exactly what happened. you know, that plane took off, got to cruising altitude and never lost that altitude until it crashed in virginia. so obviously a lot of questions here. my biggest question is, air traffic control, i would like to hear what they were saying. as early as 20 to 30 minutes after the flight took off people were trying to contact this
breathable, more compressed, not breathable outside at high altitude. if there was a rapid decompression in this case, meaning that the air inside whooshes out because of some mechanical failure, maybe the door was open or there was a cracked window, maybe something in the structural integrity of the airplane, if you re up high at 34,000 feet, the pilots have very little time to respond. 10,000 feet, they ve got a lot of time to respond, 25,000 feet, three to five minutes and put on oxygen masks. 35,000 feet, 30 to 60 seconds. that is when hypoxia starts to set in. it s really the insidious killer. very hard for pilots to recognize. i can tell you, as a pilot and flight instructor, the first symptoms, your fingernails go blue. then you start to get a bit of visual impairment. also maybe acting a little drunk, maybe a little giddy, and then, of course, judgment impairment and you can slip into
been a rapid decompression. pressurized aircraft cabin. meaning the pressurization inside, the breathable air inside lets out. and then the thin air outside is what is in the airplane. you can t breathe that for very long. let s advance this to the next one. this is what happens if you re up high. the plane was at 34,000 feet. so 35,000 feet, 30 to 60 seconds of useful consciousness and a thatra i had decompression happens. so the pilots have to very quickly put on oxygen masks to try to continue to operate the airplane. but the symptoms are sort of insidious. they can sort of range here. hypoxia, headache, decreased stimulus, drowsiness, visual impairment. these are the basic symptoms but it gets worse and worse and pilots train for this in a chamber where they can raise the altitude artificially and they
an airplane compresses the air within the cabin, so there s enough oxygen for people to function normally. if the pressurization fails, then there s not enough oxygen in the cabin, people get hypoxia, lose consciousness and sometimes die. tonight family members mourning the lives lost in addition to the pilot, a prominent no, real estate agent, her 2-year-old daughter, and hernany. truly a tragic ending. tonight big questions about why it took those fighter jets 90 minutes to launch while that plane was flying near new york city and the nation s capital, supposedly the most protected airspace in the country. david? serious questions indeed. martha raddatz, thank you. meanwhile there was another image from washington today that immediately made news. former president trump s attorneys seen at the justice department. donald trump s attorneys have now met with special counsel jack smith, who of course is