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Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journal s editorial page. Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journal s editorial page. investigators will be trying to figure out the motive based on what they have seen so far. the fbi says they do not believe this was a terrorist threat and they do not believe there s any additional criminal activity associated with this. another major issue, authorities will surely look at is security access, the fact that could happen at all. all entities will do what they call a hot watch, they will review incident and look at all of the things happened and look for the holes and why employee had access to aircraft and try to determine where it was broken down and with that they ll be able to strengthen the system. former dhs officials spoken to fox news today say at this point mental health seems to be the primary issue when it comes to this situation. the challenge on t ....
A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. question that goes to congress and reviving congress again next week. big question. so, rick, with that said, what vulnerabilities did this highlight, do you think? not just, is it the airport, the airline? i mean, who are they really going to be looking more closely at here? well, every airport is different. so, they re going to have to come up with specific guidelines for each airport. and the problem is, once somebody does this, he puts a lot of people at risk. one guy gets in one airplane and he takes off in a crowded metropolitan area and look what happens. not only deuz oes it tie up the traffic system but no one knew what his intentions were. he could have easily turned north and gone through downtown seattle. he could have caused countless deaths on the ground. this is a real vulnerability that they have to address. it s not, they say this is one guy, one plane. but the potential damage he could cause ....
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. much. i want to dig into this more. josh and lynn is joining me. lynn, let me start with you. geoff bennett mentioning the 2 7 district in new york and this is a district that sort of hugs buffalo, it is in upstate new york. and donald trump won that district by almost 25 points back in 2016. you look at the electoral record for the congressman who has announced he is suspending his campaign. chris collins won that district 67% of the vote back in 2016. let me put the same question to you as i put to jeff, what is the import of this as you look ahead to the midterms? it depends if he gets his name off the ballot. that is the next question we have to ask. local authority determine the rules for elections. if his name stays on the ballot, then it might make it improbable that a democrat would be elected. after all, a long time ago when release of the book. what do you make of the whi ....
The latest news from around the world. is like on takeoff, but yeah, it it s burned quite a bit faster than i expected. that is the plan flying the plane. he did a loop. a very dangerous maneuver on a turbo prop plane that he was up there flying. as you can hear in a strange situation. we heard a short time ago from the chief operating officer for horizon air. here s her statement. good evening, i m constance the horizon chief operating officer. i m sorry to share with you this evening at approximately 8:00 p.m. one of our q-4 airplanes made an unauthorized takeoff from seatec airport. we believe it was made by an employee and no other passengers or crew were onboard. shortly therefore it crashed by it was carrying somebody from the government because i had seen two f-15 fighter jets behind it. maybe it s nothing big. as i m jogging around a bank, i see the plane start banking right like towards the island. a little gap between the water and the land, if you look in my ....
plane. i don t think this was the first flight certainly. and the communications back and forth with the tower at one point asking if there were other pilots on the line, asking about what kind of chop he would get into over the mountain areas. this went on for quite a period of time and it did emso liseem e air traffic controller had some familiarity with them. so as the picture becomes, you know, more and more flushed out, this is someone who was familiar with the airport. you know, you almost are tempted to say it was someone who kind of snapped because he clearly enjoyed the flight, enjoyed the role and loop that he performed, sounded anyway, surprised that he was able to do that loop. that is difficult do especially in a twin engine aircraft that is not made do that. and it sheds a lot of light. and many people heard the clip that we just played, but i want to play a bit more of it. obviously viewers here in the u.s., many people just waking up again for this plane that ....