the airplane, man, they had their hands full. and jim, divide and kconquer right, with the co-pilot, and we go out, and they say, that we are experiencing technical difficulties and the co-pilot is doing one thing and you as the pilot are doing another thing, and taub about that as they the are determining the ability of that plane, and their own ability to get to perhaps the nearest airport? well, i don t know which crew member was flying, and if it makes any difference, but clearly, they had lost control of the airplane between the two of them in the airplane, it didn t marry up. and when it happens, it is a matter of time before you have lost lives. so, i don t know that we we can say this point that one crew member or the other was actually at the controls. we just don t know yet. jim tilmon, thank you very much for your perspective as we are following the latest here on the metro jet crash. again, as you have is said, and
are we increasing safety or are we making a deterrent for pilots? in other words like a convenient store security, are we deterring the crime from committing at the 7-eleven? what are we doing in the cockpit? are we preventing pilots from doing a nefarious act, committing suicide, reading the wall street journal and possibly ignoring emergency bells and whistles. what is it we are attempting to do. if it is a live streaming data situation, someone like captain cassidy has to be watching and monitoring. what can the person on the ground do if that is a live streaming data situation? i don t see where cameras are going to assist or be a deterrent in any particular way. where do you position the camera in the first place? jim? i just think first of all, it s a ridiculous idea. most of that starts with
victims of transportation accidents. lieutenant colonel michael kay, retired military pilot with the british royal air force, jim tilmon, retired american airlines pilot. les abend, aviation analyst and triple seven pilot and aviation attorney arthur rosenberg and geoffrey thomas editor in chief of airlineratings.com. let s go to geoffrey first. what did you make of the interview? did the prime minister have a good explanation of how they acted in the immediate after math of the disappearance? first of all, great interview that richard was able to get. the malaysian prime minister has given us more clarity but it s not crystal clear. some of the answers were still left question marks. as far as the way they reacted afterwards he did concede they didn t handle it as well as they could but at the same time he does say, which is true, this disappearance is unprecedented
final question. reality check really. tomorrow will be seven weeks, day 49. mary schavio, what do you think? i think we need to get that preliminary report out and really reassess the situation. so it s a good time to see where we are and plan for where we will go next. seven weeks, mikey kay. seven weeks is 1/14 of the time it took to find the black boxes from air france 447. we are in for the long haul and just beginning. arthur. stay the course and for the future of aviation, cameras in the cockpit and streaming data of aircraft position. jim tilmon. outside of that camera in the cockpit, i can tell you we have learned a great deal out of this situation. we have learned how not to do things and how to do things we have never done before. i think aviation will benefit from this somehow. let s get accuracy on the