a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. i m paula newton. ahead on cnn newsroom, the u.s. and canada authorized the takedown of a third high-altitude object in recent days, but just what was it? even as the death toll in syria and turkey climbs, officials are looking for answers. why did so many buildings crumble? ukraine says it shot down 20 drones from iran during a russian attack. ahead, a live report from kyiv. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so it happened again. for the third time in a week, a u.s. fighter jet has shot down an object over north american air space. the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, says the latest object violated canadian air space and was taken down by a u.s. f-22 fighter jet over the yukon in the northwest of canada. mr. trudeau and u.s. president joe biden authorized the strike by the country s shared air defense organization, norad. we ll hear mor
incidents to try to get a better sense for what these objects were and what they are actually capable of. natasha bertran, cnn, washington. cnn transportation analyst mary scavo joins us. we heard from the canadian defense minister saying it was the first instance of norad downing an object in canadian air space. her point was that we shouldn t underestimate the importance of this. how do you parse that? well, i agree completely. it s very important that we actually have to down objects in our air space. but probably more important than that is we re dining objects and we really don t know and haven t identified what they were yet. and depending upon which briefing you review, some of them say they did enter our air space before we were actually aware of them entering the united states air space, which
killed in the collision. the apa said terry barker and len root were among the crew members on the b-17 flying for fortress. our hearts go out to their families, friends and colleagues, past and present, their tweet said. the ntsb is launching a go team to investigate saturday s midair collision. a tweet from the ntsb on saturday evening said in part. no spectators or others on the ground were reported injured. the debris field from the collision includes the dallas executive airport grounds, highway 67 and a nearby strip mall. it is worth noting that the faa does require these stunts to be approved ahead of time. one expert tells us, though, even as safety measures have been put in place over the years there s still tremendous risk when performing complex and dangerous moves. here s mary scavo. when tragedies happen at air shows the faa has to reevaluate whether this should be allowed. remember, even though the regular federal aviation rules
the faa has data suggesting the ethiopia 737 may have followed a similar flight path. you recall yesterday after a phone call from the boeing ceo, the president did not take any action. today after another call from boeing he did. here to talk about it is former department of transportation inspector mary scavo, an analyst and plaintiffs attorney for activists and families and including in cases against the boeing company. also cnn aviation correspondent richard quest joins us. so the grounding of the planes, what does it mean for air travel in the u.s. because there are not a lot of the planes actually being used, correct? no, there is not a lot. but they are in some key markets, southwest has a couple of dozen. american similarly. and united has the max 9. and so we re already starting to see some delays and some lines as the airlines switch the planes out. and put in replacements. and it is all happening at a time of course when capacity is
pretty tight at the moment. there aren t a lot of spare planes about so i would expect to see a bit of confusion, a few delays and cancellations as the airlines pretty much learn to switch out the new planes, find replacements and lease or borrow or bring those out of retirement to make up the difference. mary, why do you think the faa didn t move quicker on this compared to the rest of the world, basically? well, the faa usually takes its cues from boeing and not just this but in many other instances and following boeing s lead. boeing after the accident, after the first and second one said the plane was safe and insisted there was nothing wrong with it and didn t need major change and the faa simply agreed with thex. and you could see that in the air witness directive and the additional directions put out on march 11th after the second crash, the faa said well based on what boeing has told us, so they were following the lead of