even so the building as a whole is an impressive monument next to the one in cologne regensburg cathedral is considered to be germany s most extraordinary gothic cathedral. reagan s burg was not only important because it became a bishop seat fairly early on the danube was a significant trade and traffic route and here on its banks in the old town hall the perpetual diet or rice stock was held for over one hundred forty years. to find out more about what that was and what it meant for the city and meeting the director of the reagans birth museums don t. with gas still.
happier. there s hardly a better place to end the day on the this place that had the bar its famous in hamburg what a wonderful view. eleven. hamburg without the elbow that s impossible the river is hamburg lifeline so on the one hand it s a useful traffic route and on the other it s in a way of tranquility so no wonder the elbow fascinates so many people including
trafficked air routes in the asia pacific. very heavy traffic route. this airspace this airplane was over was very routinely trafficked. we have a lot of bad weather in the region too, especially at this time of year. airplanes always fly around bad weather. they land in bad weather. they take off in bad weather. and so it s very routine stuff. it s a very routine airspace, very routine stuff. and that s of course what makes something like this so shocking and such a big thing because it s so unusual. right. but in this area and especially this time of year, this is the monsoon region and we ve been reporting heavily on all the flooding people in this region are dealing with. storms this storm in particular was at 52,000 feet. so although pilots and this pilot had 6,000 hours, although they train for weather it s hard to say where you go when a
if the transponder was off, this is a military target. let me ask you about that 12,000 foot descent or to 12,000 feet. it also would put you below the heavily traveled traffic route, correct? so that speaks to somebody who is an aviator at the helm, correct? when you have this sort of situation, the first thing you re supposed to do is get down and take a left turn or right turn off of the air way where there might be other traffic. so you re going to get out of the way and you re going to get down. in this case one more step, you want to get back toward land. that is what we re seeing with this report. you know, obviously we have to wut t put the caveat that we e had a lot of dead ends but this
have been some some agreement that that was okay. i doubt it. so it clearly is the ability to have baghdad to act as a unifying element in order to create degrees of stability across the government. the one thing that you can measure, your canary in the mine, is, what do the border forces look like, what do the security forces look like? do they exist to provide legitimacy and relevance to this government as it grows up? in addition, obviously, the military, but more importantly are those security and border forces. otherwise, we d just have a major traffic route in between iraq and iran that isn t going to be healthy for anybody. yeah. and that s where we ll focus our attention as we go forward. thank you, both, for the perspective. a pleasure to make the acquaintance, major general spider marks and our friend and neighbor, lieutenant colonel anthony shafer.