she suited up and soared over the skies of south carolina. she will fly the c-130. she hopes to be an inspiration to little girls who dream of flying. those are your headlines. rick is standing by for a look at the weather. he was doing putt putt. you had a difficult time out there. he did a good job. it s a difficult course. i got a whole in one on the first and then downhill. just get ready. we re in the middle of tornado season but only six weeks away from hurricane season starting. that s great. i wanted to let you know. the first forecast for hurricane season came out this week and we re expecting a lower than average hurricane season. we have an el nino blooming. you don t need to know the details but generally keeps hunter activity down in the atlanta. doesn t mean we can let our guard down but overall less activity, i think. today in the short term we have rain showers across parts of the southeast.
malaysia airlines stepping up security to make sure nothing like this happens again. they required no pie lot or fir captain is allowed to be alone inside the cockpit. they are stepping up security measures standing up the cockpit area. renee marsh joins me from washington. take us through the new rules. carol, the first one you spoke about, no pilot or first officer is allowed to be alone in the cockpit. the reason behind that is, for example, if one pilot has a health issue, you always want someone who is able-bodied to be in the cockpit to fly the plane or if a pilot has sinister intentions, you wouldn t want it that person in the cockpit alone. here in the united states, a pilot is never alone in the cockpit. before they leave the cockpit, they have to receive
from l.a. refnee renee, tell us about the new rules. we just spoke with jetblue. on top of the volume of holiday travellers, have you new faa pilot rest rules that just went into effect yesterday. so what are these rules? they essentially govern how much time commercial pilots must have between work shifts. so it specifically says they need ten-hour minimum rest period before flights and they have to have eight-hours of uninterrupted sleep. so the question is, how does that impact the traveler who is now just getting back from their vacation, holiday, and they want to get to their destination, and they are stuck at the airports. the impact of one example is, let s just say, you have a delayed flight. that pilot now reached the end of his or her shift and now they need to look for a new pie lot to take over that delayed flight. as can you see, it is just a
championship teams in both 1974 and 75. also killed in the crash aeu i according to the coroner. 52-year-old wesley caves believed to be the owner of the plane. we have been update owned the three victims transported to a hospital. one is a passenger in serious condition, another a passenger in fair condition, and when you see this wreckage you ll understand that it s a miracle that only one adult was injured on the ground, that is in fair condition. we don t know the sex or the identification of that person. this plane or what was this plane was a beechcraft premiere one, jon you re a pie lot, you re probably very familiar witness. it left tulsa, oklahoma 3:15 local time sunday afternoon. the pilot reporting according to an early investigation that there was a mechanical or electrical problem. it did touchdown actually and the airport runway in south bend then the climbed again before kraeurpbg into these three homes. though officials are still searching one of the homes today, jon th
breaking news at this hour, the national championship air races is an event in reno, nevada, that every year draws thousands of people in september to watch various military and civilian planes race. it s like nascar but in the sky. and today what has happened at the national championship air races in reno, nevada, is being described as a mass casualty incident. i vintage world war ii plane flown by an 80-year-old pie lot, a p-51 mustang, flown by 80-year-old jimmy leeward of ocala, florida, crashed into a grandstand area. there were two areas of seating that we can see from the footage that we have from the sight tonight. a larger grandstand area from which we have from which the footage we re showing you has been taken from hand held camera and a different area of box