Tolerate Sanctuary Cities pete what a morning. Abby guess who is back from vaca. Ed i was off for a couple weeks. Abby you look so refreshed. Ed italy will do that for you. Abby were you even vacationing. Ed i missed you guys. Pete Nothing Happened while you were on vacation. Abby big news we will talk about tomorrow. This is our last weekend together. So well make the most of it. Pete we have Sound Effects for you. We have a Big Celebration Tomorrow as well. But we have a lot of news breaking this morning. In fact, we begin with a Fox News Alert. Terrifying moments as a stolen plane flew aimlessly in the air before crashing in seattle. Abby take a look at this video. Alaska airlines employee i dont want to hurt no one. I just want you to whisper Sweet Nothings into my ear. I have a lot of people that care about me. And its going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. Air Traffic Control tried to get the man to land the plane on water. The fighter jets did not shoot the plane dow
aviation expert was saying if it was at a passenger gate you would need more people involved to actually if he was in the cockpit getting ready to fly you need other people to push it back from the gate. that s not what happened. it was in a maintenance area. abby: begs the question how do you monitor all of your employees and make sure they are mentally well that something like this doesn t happen again. that s a question we asked sal la gotten i can t. here is what he said. he had credentials. let ability to get out on the ramp and be among the airplanes. so it s hard to say that we are going to stop somebody like that from doing anything unless we figure that he may have some nefarious thoughts. remember, how many people go around and service an airplane before it s ready for departure. 12, 15, 18 people, depending on the eyes of the aircraft. can you keep traffic of all of those people all the
released. but you mentioned the investigation. it will certainly start this morning. they will look into exactly how he was able to get into plane and take off. he had no formal pilot skills that we know of. he was a ground transportation employee. he was the guy that de-ices the planes in the winter. he will also direct the planes with those orange cones and bring them in to the gate and take the planes out to the runway and things like that. so how was he able to fly that plane? how was he able to get it undetected? we do know that plane was in for some maintenance. it was not supposed to be flown that day or last night. so, exactly how he got that plane and how he was able to get off the ground with it will be part of the investigation. ed: dan springer some terrific reporting in the middle of the night for us. appreciate it, dan. pete: thanks, dan. ed: that answers a little bit of the question one of our experts had last hour whether the plane was at a gate. dan is reporting it the
from getting away from the gate to taking off to security protocols. walk us through it? it depends or the aircraft was. if the aircraft was at a passenger gate, at a departure gate. someone would have had to push that plane back it doesn t back up on its own. it would have been a crew member to do it. some kind of authorization or coordination with somebody on the ground to do that. if the plane was out near a taxiway, maybe just standing by for maintenance or going into a maintenance bay, then, if you know how to start an engine like that and, again, that takes some training, so he would have had to have some training, then taking off on a runway is not impossible. it s something that a flight student could do after a while. abby: certainly a wake-up call around the country that this could happen. he is a 29-year-old man. as we are hearing he is not a technician but maybe a higher up, at least high enough to have certain access to things. what should people be aware