ahead, you still have peripheral vision and if someone is typing on the keypad, sort of down and lower to my right where i m sitting now it is impossible not to see that. and unless they did it while one of the other pilots was, perhaps in the lavatory or something like that. jon: it is such a strange, strange mystery. robert mark, we have a lot of other questions to ask you. we ll get them another time. thanks very much for being with us today. you re welcome, jon. jon: we re also just getting news on another aviation story in the headlines. the faa has made a decision on the fate of the troubled boeing dreamliner. good news for the american aviation industry. that is coming up right after the break.
could make his or her way into the cockpit. they re serving meals or whatever to the cockpit. this was news to me. i thought in post 9/11 in flight this thing was possibly sealed off. it s possible. the door is open from time to time for the cabin service staff to provide drinks or for the pilots to get up and use the lavatory. so the door is opened occasionally. it s a carefully controlled process and procedure but yeah, there with possibilities here that it could be a passenger. and we have these reports about it might have changed direction multiple times. we know about the sort of sudden and dramatic change in coarse. we have other reports that it may have changed direction multiple times in possible kind of dramatic fluctuations in altitude. as a captain, when you see
time. and you don t think that beverage cart that they placed in the aisle over there and the flight attendants stand behind it while the pilot walks out, they go to the lavatory, whatever, and then they close the door, you don t think that s good enough? well, you tell me whether that s good enough. that was just depicked. that s the most robust form of protection that the airlines have. and the cart did not disappear. the cart was pushed over. the carts are top heavy. they are easy to move. that cart was pushed over and so was the flight attendant by one of the intruders, and the second intruder just went right into the cockpit. basically what you re saying is when they saw the pilot walk out they stormed that cart and just ran over the cart and got into the cockpit? absolutely. study results showed 100% time cockpit was protected once the secondary barrier was installed and up. but using the most robust form of protection that the airlines have, which is the cart and the
all 202 passengers, one by one, off of that flight with their hands on their heads. no one was hurt. swiss authorities plan to press charges and the copilot could actually face up to 20 years in prison. we ll continue to follow this story for you. back to you. can you imagine being one of those passengers? that s just crazy. thank you very much. can you imagine being the pilot? you go back into the lavatory and suddenly the plane you go, where are we going. does he get in trouble as a result of what his copilot did as well? perhaps. people being escorted off. we should point out that the copilot who hijacked the jet liner, rather than go down the jetway, actually opened up one of the cockpit windows. he had a rope in there and he went ahead and got down to the tarmac. he is now in custody. wearing a utility belt. batman. shocking. some other headlines, heather
people want to be talked to. kurt delivers his announcements with a humorous twist meant to entertain passengers. oxygen will flow at a rate of $2 for the first minute and then 99 cents for each additional minute. if you re traveling with more than one child, now is a good time to pick your favorite. he is definitely trying to make you laugh, but this flight attendant does take his job seriously. we re trained to be firefighters, we re trained to do cpr, we re trained to use the defibrillator. people don t realize that. but we re really there for your safety. kurt works for ata airlines, and his most popular route is phoenix to hawaii. long five-, six-hour flights. videotaping his announcements proves to be a fun distraction. someone is in the lavatory. this is the lavatory police. come out with your pants up. kurt s antics enliven the flight for the whole crew. their names are barbara, donna, and julie. and my name is kurt, and i am the man. when he can t man the cam