something that s outside of the realm of what a lot of foreclosurfolks are talking about. itself ths let s talk about the money only so much in the till. let s spend it on an approach that will eliminate the need for a lot of this kind of conversation. if you are not going to do something that will impact safety and make it better and easier and even more economical for the airlines, than let s not do it at all. it s unnecessary. we don t need to have it. i can hear it now, flaps, hydraulics, makeup. that s on the checklist now. mary, schavio, what about the argument that jim and les are making now. they say it is a ridiculous idea. what do you think? it s a ridiculous idea not to have them. the privacy issue is a red herring. the federal aviation administration regulations did away with that a long time ago when they said you have to have two people in the cockpit on every commercial passenger flight. why because pilots engage in constant crew resource management. they must challe
again without being detected and if so how would you stop it from being used as a weapon? i think one of the nine principles of war is surprise. if that was the case whoever the terrorist organization is planning to use it as a weapon has lost the element of surprise because the area defenses of the sovereign territories within that part of the world would be heightened i should imagine. it can be landed. if it was landed i would be surprised that no one saw it. if it was landed it would be the government of that landed. do you think that is a legitimate scenario. most unlikely scenario but we don t have enough information to take anything off the table yet. this is a question on pilots actions here. answer what is sop if the pilot feels a plane is in danger and must maneuver to escape a credible threat. jim, tell me? i don t know if there is an sop because i don t know what you are talking about in terms
department of transportation, now an aviation attorney for victims of transportation accidents. lieutenant colonel michael kay, retired military pilot with the british royal air force, jim tilmon, retired american airlines pilot. less abend, aviation analyst and triple seven pilot and aviation attorney arthur rosenberg and geoffrey thomas editor in chief of airline ratings.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
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course, in this extraordinary case has overwhelmed the malaysians. but with relationship to this report, this is being put together with the help of the ntsb, the atsb from australia, the aib from united kingdom. i think the french and chinese involved. there s a lot of parties to this preliminary report. you know, it s already being put together by a team of experts. of course i will the prime minister has another team just to overlook what has been done. i think this report will be a really good thing. it s going to clear the air on a lot of fiction which has become fact. with can go back to square one and say now we know what happened with this airplane to these various points. that will be a really welcome thing for the coverage of this disappearance. jim tilmon, i wonder when we get this report if it will be like some court documents that