it would really be nice to have video in the cockpits. this would help the safety of aviation. come on, les. get real here. camera in the cockpit. safer for aviation. why can t you guys let a camera in the cockpit? we have cameras where we work all the time, right, don? absolutely. > it doesn t enhance your safety. but then again, for two hours, what do we really capture on tape? this is after the fact in this case it would be nice to have seven or eight hours, wouldn t it? we don t know. we really don t know. i can tell you it would be better than two. that is the only job in the universe that i understand that people will say no, i don t want cameras there and allow it. everyone else, too bad. every athlete, every news person everybody who works police officer has a dash cam. everybody has a camera, even judges in the courtroom. does everybody have 300 lives on their hands in the back and subject to pilot fatigue? that s why it s more important. no, it s
developments on the search there. back to john for breaking news. russia s house of parliament rubber stamping bringing crimea into federation. the vote there unanimous unlike lower house of parliament which voted 443-1 to ratify. meantime president obama is targeting senior russian officials in a new round of sanctions over the annexation of crimea. in response, moscow has banned nine americans from entering the country. among them house speaker john boehner and arizona senator john mccain who say they are proud to be on vladimir putin s so-called naughty list. federal investigators are hoping newly obtained surveillance video of the seattle news chopper s takeoff will help them figure out why it went down. nearby businesses including space needle and mcdonald s captured the video. reviewing a number of things, pilot fatigue. it killed gary pfitzner and the
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pilots. more on that in a moment. the pilots were also trying to land on the shorter runway because the main was was closed for maintenance. this is the main runway here. this one they can use different flight pattern. this is a shorter one, and the plane crashed right about here while trying to make a landing here. in other circumstances they chief land here. this was just minutes away from being open and ready. officials are saying the temporary runway is half the length of the main one and did not have advance technology that helps pilots lan. lea gabe grill. investigators had the technology to safely land on the runaway, but they were descended too fast when they were landing. much of the hearing focused on pilot fatigue and how it may have played a role in the crash.
partly because of an air crash that had fatalities several years ago in which pilot fatigue was blamed. they wanted to protect against that. jetblue asking to extend that for a bit andy nighed from the government, carol. you are wearing many hats for us today i appreciate it. i wanted to ask you about a vote taking place on the senate floor. the voting has just begun. everybody is wondering if democrats will be able to get the five republican votes they need to get this thing through. mr. wicker, no. for some time, the betting money in washington and wall street was that they would eventually extend this thing. it is a mid-term election year. people that are long-term unemployed, the 1.3 million that need the checks, they are democrats and republicans. this has turned into a fight about how are you going to pay for it, when are you going to