flight without a checked co-pilot supervising him. perhaps they felt comfortable he was with a pilot so seasoned. joining me world news editor for u.s. today, aviation analyst. william, let me start with you again with your reporting that investigators are looking into the captain. you talk about how they are looking into relatives of the captain, trying to get information about his behavior, his state of mind. what are they looking for? i m also curious about what your sources say why there had been such a delay in terms of interview, for example, the pilot s wife. they are trying to get more information out of relatives to determine if there s something there that other people have overlooked that may indicate why this event occurred. farce the wife goes, we re told that they would like to interview her more but at this time they haven t told us why it
let s talk about what we do know. there is a good chance the captain was at the controls. that s because pilots fly, one pilot tends to be at the controls, the pilot flying and the pilot not flying, in this case, probably the copilot, made the radio call. now, what would be interesting to find out ahead of time is if we could determine possibly through air traffic control tapes, if there were earlier radio calls made. i would be very, very interested to know if we heard the captain s voice at all once they took off. the captain would be on the radio on the ground. but if the captain was on the air when they were flying from kuala lumpur to beijing and suddenly we hear the last call from the copilot, there is a very good chance that would mean there was an inflight problem or emergency. in something like that, in a crisis, what a captain might say is you have the airplane. i m going to work the problem. and you have the radio. so i would really like to hear those air traffic control t
and we didn t know where it was after that last contact, that could have been taken back up north, south, east or west, and that really complicates the matter. something could have gone wrong after that point. before i let you go, quickly, mike, no history of extremism in either of their backgrounds as far as we can tell. everybody who knows them says they re good guys. no history of problems. they loved their airline. they loved to fly airplanes. yeah. all we found out, the captain has been with the company basically over 30 years. the copilot had girls in the cockpit. all right. so he s a red blooded 20-year-old guy and on the hustle and his technique isn t very good apparently. but other than that, there is nothing else we know that s really negative about these two guys. yeah. wound up falling in love, the pilot s wife had just left him, according to some reports. thank you both. thanks, megyn. whatever happened to this plane, searchers are focusing a lot of their attenti
today. it was great to talk to the president and even better to talk to bruce. the cast of mtv s jersey shore is planning to help rebuild its namesake. stars of the mtv reality show will be part of a fundraising special on mtv next week. in other news, a near fatal collision at a small texas airport was all caught on tape. it s amazing. watch this. a student pilot on his first solo flight was moments away from a smooth landing when the landing gear clips the passing suv. the video was capped captured by the pilot s wife as the teu dent is four weeks away from receiving his license but has decided to quit flying. you can imagine why. seven people came close to drowning after heavy surf caused their boat to capsize. four adults and three children were stranded in the bay without any life jackets.
kills me because that s what i do. i don t feel like picking numbers. i just say give me five of the quick pick and i m out of there. let s play and if we re not here you know why. should we do the office pool or play individually? you and i will split it. keep doing the overnights? no. me neither. but first, the pilot s wife says there are several sides to the story, though, involving her husband. and now investigators will be looking into what may have triggered these extremely bizarre actions aboard that flight yesterday. safety experts are now questioning whether flight crews are being put under too much pressure. with more, here s abc s jim avila. reporter: a chaotic scene aboard jetblue flight 191. three hours into a trip from new york to las vegas. passengers in the aisle pulling down not an unruly passenger but the captain of the plane. in the cockpit, his co-pilot radioing an emergency asking for an unscheduled immediate landing in amarillo, texas. amarillo