For families looking for closure. joining me now is captain jay rollins, a retired american airlines captain and former navy pilot. thank you for being here. my pleasure, reverend. tell me about this report that investigators say the debris matches a boeing 777. how important is that? well, it is absolutely vital and it is almost certain that it is the aircraft. there are no 777s missing other than this aircraft. and it is located in the same ocean. the other aircraft that have crashed, which have just been a handful, have all been accounted for. so it s. in same ocean. how could it travel so far? 4,000 miles from the plane s last known position? oceanographers say there are ocean currents, large currents that actually move anything along its path. we have the same thing going on
you know here s what faa requires for pilot screening. pilots under 40 are required to get an annual physical exam from a flight surgeon. pilots over 40 have to get exams every six months. those exams are supposed to include questions on mental health. and pilots are required to disclose existing conditions to the faa. european rules are about the same. but do doctors actually do mental health screening, jay? not very much. but there is no specific sense they are checking you for it. but they can definitely improve in that regard. i think also they can encourage other crew members to the extent that they re flying with someone a little bit odd. maybe they should have a
Facility where such crew members could say, hey, maybe this person should be checked. after all, we re in the cockpit for hours with one other person and all we re doing is talking about one another s lives, politics et cetera. so we re in a good position to know when someone is a little bit off. jay rollins, lot of work to be done certainly to regain the trust of the public. thank you for your time tonight. my pleasure reverend. thank you. coming up outrage over a new law that may allow discrimination. under the cover of religious freedom. we ll tell you all about it. plus senator harry reid makes a major announcement today. what did the president have to say about it? that s coming up in conversation nation. i need to look for a used car. but i just keep
To be placed in a position of responsibility. it requires more than physical skills to fly the aircraft. it also requires vetting. in other words this individual in my opinion should have been flying smaller aircraft in smaller venues until he proved himself through the years and then was able to assume this responsibility that if a senior pilot left the cockpit that he would sit there and continue to do his job regardless of whatever sort of personal issue he had going on. jay, let me get a little personal. tell me about your experience. was there ever a time you didn t feel like you should fly? most absolutely. a few years back when i was flying, i actually went through a period of my life that was very stressful, lots of lawyers and missing calls and all that sort of thing. it got to the point where i
Searching for the remains of victims. police say they haven t found a single body intact. and families of the victims want answers. they were innocent people this relative said. if lubitz was ill, the company should have been aware. joining me now is captain jay rollins, a retired american airlines captain and former u.s. navy pilot. thank you for being here. thank you. jay, could this airline have done more to make sure this co-pilot was fit to fly? i believe so. aside from the fact that the airlines were not in a position up until now to realize the problem was psychological illnesses like this this company hired this individual with only 650 hours which in my estimation is far too few hours