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,
during the war and afterwards. he wrote to a person named, betty, assuming his wife, all the dead and wounded u.s. troops he had to tend to and help. the vietnamese defense minister used panetta s visit as a chance to announce the regime would now allow the u.s. military access to three new sites previously unavailable to them. these sites are thought to contain the remains of american troops missing since the war. the pentagon has a team that has been here searching since 1973. there are still 1284 american servicemen missing in vietnam. the acid dick nature of the oil here caused quickening disintegration of the remains. aging family members see there is a real race against time to find the missing. the military officials told leon panetta today that they only had five or six years left to find the remains of the missing before the soil would cause them all to disintegrate. back to you, jon.
peter goelz, a former managing director of the national transportation safety board, the agency that examines flight accidents in this country and elsewhere. peter, africa has long had a troubled history of airplane safety yet nigeria just recently was upgraded to sort of top level status by the united states. was that premature? well, i think that s one of the questions that is going to come out of this accident. it was raised to category 1. you are absolutely right, jon, that africa has been a concern for the world s aviation community for almost 20 years. and the accident rate in africa have been high. they continue to be high and there is a lack of confidence in the safety systems in the continent. jon: this particular plane, an md-83, was built by an american company, mcdonnell douglas, now owned by boeing. it was flown by american air