you enjoying a nice cup of coffee there? why did it take a week for you to tell me you have a coffee maker in your office? i told her before, actually, she just didn t listen. i ve been at the network for almost a year. and i find out doing this shift, he has a frother, too. because i like lattes. i like lattes. good for the soul. you can have one any time, reena. i want to keep your office, now. on a serious note, we begin with the latest details of the crash of that plane bound for algeria. officials now say the wreckage has been found in the african nation of mali. they confirm none of the 116 souls on board survived. kirk hawkins has the latest. reporter: reports coming in from a burkina faso official saying search crews located the wreckage of the missing algerian plane. bad weather and violent thunderstorm may have played a role in bringing down the air alegrie flight. it lost contact with controllers and disappeared from radar. the aircraft, an md-83, was
planes, these pictures of people boarding a boeing 737 and here s a mcdonnell douglas md-83. lots of these different planes, one of the things that might attract your attention as a layman as you re getting on to a plane are these acute shaped oddly looking sort of fragile looking small probe things that stick out of the fuselage. you ve seen these? they look kind of fragile, right? this is what they look like on a commercial plane. this is what they look like on a military aircraft. they re called ptow tubes. the basic technology of a pitot tube measures velocity, an instrument that measures speed. planes can t measure how fast
carriers for quite a while. and in fact there were a couple of incidents when it was flying, when it was flown, i m sorry, alaskan airlines in which it had to land prematurely because of smoke in the cockpit, that kind of thing. we have that graphic. maybe we can get it up on screen in just a moment. but at any rate, some of them date back to like 2002, peter, for instance. is that unusual for a plane of this age and will they look that far back into its history? first of all, no, it is not unusual. the md-80 was for many years a very common aircraft in the united states. american airlines still flies almost 250 of them. so it s, it s a good aircraft. it has got good safety record. it does consume a little too much fuel. so u.s. carriers tend to be shedding themselves of this aircraft but the investigation will go back as far as necessary to
identify what happened to this plane. you know, there are reports that there were engine problems. they will look at the engines to see if they were making power. they will check the flight data and voice recorder. they will also check the fuel to see whether the fuel was contaminated. the ntsb is sending a team over alongwith boeing today. so i would expect within a few weeks we ll start to see what happened. jon: hope we can get to the bottom of it. peter goelz, formerly with the in. it sb. thanks, peter. thanks, jon. jenna: back to the economy and the worldwide debt crisis and new controversial comments from a top ceo who says the way to solve bankrupt budgets just rethink when you get the gold watch. he says the retirement age needs to go up, way up. liz macdonald is with the fox business network and she s here to tell us a little bit who is this ceo, when does he think we should retire and how close is he to retirement by the way? reporter: that s right,
the same fire burning up the wreckage of their plane. other firefighters were pulled back from the front lines giving them time to grieve. they are pilot tom neil tomkins and copilot, ronnie edward chambliss. both from boise, idaho. investigators are trying to figure out what caused their plane to go down. jenna: there is another airtanker that makes an incredible emergency landing. this is helping with the california wildfire. it just filled up with fire restandardant when the pilot noticed the landing gear wasn t working properly. the pilot spent 90 minutes to attempt the landing you see there. he slid off the runway but nobody was hurt luckily. the forest service faced criticism recently for not updating the its fleet of air tankers. not sure if that was a factor in this incident, jon. jon: right now investigators are digging through a terrifying scene in nigeria. a plane carrying 150 passengers crashing into the