brazil, you think of the asian january that plane or asian airplane that went down near java. obviously, the germanwings crash which was apparently pilot-induced, but what s going on that all of these planes are reaching the safest moment of flight and then dropping? well, you re absolutely right, jon. that is usually the safest moment in flight. and statistics show either it s the takeoff or landing phase is where most accidents occur. i want people to understand this and keep booking for the holidays. i know the holidays are coming, people are booking on airlines with airbuses. u.s. airlines, the faa is a very safe organization. they overlook the safety of all the u.s. carriers. and keep in mind, this is a foreign carrier, and these incidences are very unusual. and that s why they get the attention that they do. however, we have got to look at each one individually. sometimes it s not just one
steve ascent and then the plane stalled, does that make sense to you? well it does in some respects. look there are two thing there are several things that can cause an aircraft to go up at a very rapid rate of climb. one is pilot-induced, pulling the nose up. although it s very difficult to maintain any high rate of climb at high altitude because the aircraft performance is insufficient to maintain a high rate of cliep. you could get an initial high rate but then it would drop off as the aircraft stalls. the other way is an updraft in the thunderstorm. if there s a very strong updraft, the aircraft could in theory climb at great rate. but you know which ever way you look it, ku i do not there s only so much power from those engines so unless you ve got forward air speed, you do not have control of the aircraft and it will stall. alistair rosenschein, thank you so much for joining me once again. i sure appreciate it. still to come in the newsroom, she knew the risk but loved
thing. and here you have the additional complexity of a mail asian airline, mostly chinese passenger, wreckage that hasn t even been found yet that may be near australia. the question of which country s court is something that s going to be very complicated to resolve. there have been at least some initial efforts to try to bring a case in the united states. it happened in the past couple of days, but you know, this is very early. this could be just intercontinental ambulance chasing. so this is all going to take a very long time to be resolved, legally. peter, you were directly involved over at the ntsb with the egypt air investigation. what happens in a situation like this when there s a multinational investigation. how do you determine who really is responsible? well, it is very complex. sometimes in silk air, even though the ntsb determined that the probable cause was pilot