plane coming inbound and hit the fence line away from the runway. we don t know what caused it. the faa is taking a look at it right now, and here is what the fire chief said about this incident. in my 40 years as a firefighter here in hawaii, this is the most tragic aircraft incident that we had. and of course there have been other incidents similar, but not in the recent history. he was talking about some other military crashes, but as far as civilian crashes go, this is very significant in hawaii there. have they released any details about the victims? we don t know details yet, no names released but the fire chief did say that some of their family members didn t go on the trip with them, and they were actually at the airfield when the plane went down, so you can only imagine what that s like if you watch your family members crash like that. oh, my goodness. thank you.
is raising eyebrows. the last military crash the pentagon was asked about it and they said no, we re not at a crisis point with this. here is the latest stats. we had our brain room pull them up out of all the branches of the military 2018, 10 crashes so far this year. last year 22. the numbers speak for themselves and clearly there is a trend, a rising number of military crashes. our military leaders will never say we re in a crisis because the face of our country to the rest of the world needs to be a position of strength. but i don t think there is any denying we re seeing a huge spike in the number of incidents. the military times reported there was a 40% spike in manned aircraft, military manned aircraft incidents since the budget control act went into effect and since mandatory military spending cuts went into effect in 2013. they re saying at this point the secretary of the navy has said they can t there is not
gabriel joins to us discuss the recent uptick in military crashes. two cuban officials are kicked out of the u.s. after a string of bizarre incidents leaving american diplomats with severe hearing loss. the symptoms now linked to a covert sonic device placed inside or near the americans residences in cuba. unclear if it was deliberate attack. the state department, fbi and cuban officials are investigating. a rally cat is born. a game between the cardinals and royals interrupted when a cat takes the field. a cat or a squirrel. that s a cat. there it is. ow, ow. the cat biting and scratching the grounds crew as they ran it off the field. then this happened. on the very next play. molina. left, grand slam. jillian: grand slam,
confidence in that device. they said if that pinger is still working, if they are searching in the right area, they will find it. the pinger locator s track record speaks for itself, wolf. the locators have been successful in finding locators in military crashes, right? that s right. one very prominent one. the manufacturer says that there s been several instances where it s found military planes because of its success record there. in 1997, a u.s. and a german plane collided off the coast of africa. the tow s pinger locator found the pinger locator found it in those crashes. let s bring in richard quest along with colleen keller, a senior analyst at mettron, a defense contractor who helped in the search of air france 447. colleen, you were brought in after they basically gave up. it still took two years to find