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Before they got to a flying pilot. all of our mentality was keep the people in the back of the airplane from getting to the front of the airplane. so we built these systems and gave the pilots the able to ensure that level of security. we never thought about it. or it was never really concerning we would have the bad guy, if you will behind the locked door keeping the people that are trying to salvage this bad situation from getting in and stopping this type of event. that s the rarity of it all. absolutely. this is almost unbelievable. greg and tom and anthony, great to have you all with us tonight. thanks so much. thank you. we re keeping a close eye on the breaking news out of new york city. firefighters are battling a massive blaze after a building collapsed. details are still pouring in. we ll bring you the latest. stay with us. we re right back on the ed show. for the whole weekend! [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] zzzquil, the non habit forming sleep aid that helps you ....
Hours, and then to have that kind of responsibility and be able to isolate yourself in the cockpit, it just tells the traveling public we have a long way to go don t we? i think so when you look at it here in the united states that pilot wouldn t be in the front end of one of our commercial airliners because it requires 1500 hours of flight time or greater now, especially after continental expressed up in buffalo. the fact is that with a young pilot like this who has been flying 600 hours isn t a lot of experience. this isn t an experience accident. this was an zengsintentional act. he learned to fly the airplane. something triggered him to take the airplane and take it from a motor transportation and make it into a weapon to kill the folks in the back. the big question now is what motivated him, and were there any precursors? i think tom and anthony would agree with me. the hardest thing you can do as a pilot is try to filter and ....
Will come out later on. for more, let me bring in captain tom d airline pilot. and anthony davis, aviation expert and pilot. great to have all of you with us tonight. mr. bunn, i ll start with you. he had to go through a short series of things to control this aircraft to do it. what do you think happened? he didn t have to do a lot of thinking about it. it s second nature to control the airplane however you want to do it. just as you said you just dial the numbers in hit it to execute, and that s it. could we do more? could this have been prevented? yes, our procedures would have preventeded this. ....