maximum speed 87 miles an hour so the plane isn t exactly a speed demon. it cruises at 55. of course, that all depends on how much sun it is getting. stick around. rapid response panel is next. i m hampton pearson with your cnbc market wrap. stocks end at session lows pressured by a strong dollar and interest rate jitters. the dow plummets 332 points wiping out all the gains for a year. the s&p sliding by 35. the nasdaq 80 points. a different story at target. last week it said it would lay off thousands of workers. 1700 jobs are being eliminated. another 1400 will go unfilled. that s it from cnbc, first in business worldwide.
oh, it is now time for the mix. oh, yeah. the mix.. yes, this thing right here. sky diving. is that mine? yeah. the whole thing. i thought you wanted the proposal because you are in love with love. oh, man. we are blowing it. we are. there is a go pro video of a man proposing marriage at 10,000 feet during a tandem sky dive. i really want to hear the video to thi s. as if jumping out of a plane isn t shocking. now you want me to sign on for life. she was happy. she said yes. she did.
pilot is asked to fly above a storm, to raise their altitude. how high does a plane need to go to avoid storms like this? in that region of the world, that particular plane cannot top a thunderstorm. those thunderstorms are going in excess of 55,000 feet with those temperatures and the upward lifting development, that plane isn t even certified to fly that high. the other thing is when the plane continues to climb, the performance envelope of the plane reduces. it s limited on bank angle. you just don t have the controllability at those altitudes that you would at lower altitudes. in addition if there s any turbulent air, that can put the plane into an upset condition or where a plane actually departs controlled flight. david, there was no way to top this storm, going as high as 50,000 feet. there were reports that there were other planes flying at higher altitude.
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and the pilot then has to say, okay, as far as i can tell, that s true. any dispatcher, any pilot can pull the plug saying, look, i read the news on monday and a plane was shot down by a missile to go to 70,000 feet. you want me to fly over there? i don t know who s manning the missiles. they should have shut that done. tom costello, for people about to travel and want the know that their plane isn t going over a war stone air space, is there any way to determine the route? very difficult. you can get on websites like fly to where, for example, multiple websites out there to show you where the specific flight, a flight number, the path is today and over the last couple of days but that doesn t mean that that flight s going to take that path today. for example, the return flight, kuala lumpur back up to amsterdam flying over, guess it, over syria returning to amsterdam. syria is another war zone. we read that story and all struck by it. it s something that none of us want to hear