go ahead they would consider him being convicted for the five years he spent in captivity and leching the army with a less than leaving the army with a less than honorable discharge. we ll get an update on the review of the bergdahl case. mikey, thank you. and levi pettit from the former disbanded university of oklahoma and he will speak publicly for the first time. he has not been seen or heard from since the racist chant went viral and dominated the news cycle. and dave guiterrez is live. and talk about at the event he will be speaking and who encouraged him to come and speak today. reporter: hi, thomas. that event is set to get underway at 5:00 p.m. eastern time here at this baptist church here in oklahoma city. the person behind this event is
into his disappearance from his unit after leaving his base in eastern afghanistan in 2009. and we have mikey kay joining us to talk about what we are learning today, the breaking news for the plane developments and boeingwe bergdahl. and i m reading what we learned from nbc news and officials pointed out that bergdahl was most likely face charges of desertion but it depends on the degree of charge. there could be a lesser charge that would have him avoid responsibility of reporting to jail and it could be considered time served because of being a prisoner in afghanistan. tom, since the bowe bergdahl case came to light, i ve been covering it for a few years now, and the mitigating circumstances of what bowe bergdahl had gone through were extreme in my view. he was held in the network and held for a good couple of years.
trying to understand what the particular noises were. could it be a power up we simply don t know. what we do know and what mikey kay has very credibly reviewed is a that this aircraft didn t offer any distress signals and descended in a controlled fashion. between 38 and 42,000 feet the pilots have only a few seconds to don their oxygen masks if there s an explosive decompression, for example. did that happen? could that have happened? that is one possible scenario. we don t want to suffer from investigative bias another possible scenario is a terror or criminal act. there have been approximately 18 a-320s accidents since the inserpgs of the aircraft. we want to make sure we re
sure it is an accident. beyond that the spokesperson said it would be near speculation. one thing we know for sure one black box has been recovered at this point and the debris field you re seeing new video on the left hand side of the screen of the search area where there are now crews trying to go through what is the wreckage of this flight. again, it went down shortly after takeoff. mikey kay has been with me today, a former special services pilot, as you re hearing what lufthansa is saying over 58,000 air hours for this airplane that had usually only taken short hops, it was specifically designed for smaller flights on the continent. you don t usually see it doing trans atlantic flights or trans pacific flights. it s usually on the short haul aspects. one thing we ve got today,
this is according to the aviation safety network. even its parent company that we mentioned before lufthansa has a remarkable safety record. aviation website airline ratings.com ranks lufthansa among the top ten in the world. another ranking has it in the top 15. joining me now is faa licensed commercial pilot anthony roman and mikey kay, a retired adviser to the uk ministry of defense and joins us as well. gentlemen, it s good to have you with me. mikey, as you re hearing about the details and time line specifically, as a trained aviation expert talk about what you think the descent indicates, at least what we know on the time line? i want to pick up on what leflter was talking about in terms of the mantra given to pilots in emergency situations which was the afiate navigate and communicate piece. the navigate aspects of this,