The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. Theft and crash is it also reveals an enormous security issue. Were lucky that only that man at the controls was involved. Imagine if this commercial plane had been full of passengers. Juliette kayyem. And scott miller a commercial pilot for 30 years. If this Ground Worker is able to grab a plane and take off how far is a stretch is it for someone with more sinister intentions to do the same thing. There is always going to be a risk in aviation and particularly from what would be known as an insider threat, someone who has gone through security, that the company at least has sort of confidence in. By the time a Passenger Airline is being filled with people it already has a cockpit staff. It already has the Security Apparatus surrounding it. In some ways he took advantage of the vulnerabilities because the plane was in fact empty. Scott, what crossed your mind
when you heard about what happened. At first i thou
when you heard about what happened. at first i thought he had to have some sort of flight experience in his background. it was curious because when i was coming up in my early 20s i was a ground service worker for an airline first at san francisco and san jose. and i was tow qualified on the aircraft. i was at the time i was thinking in the back of my head, you know some night if i wanted to fire this up and take it around the pattern could accomplish that. i never honestly even would consider doing it in real life. unfortunately this individual seems to have done that. just how hard is it for someone to get into one of the planes and get it into the air? well, as the alaska ceo said, they are very complex pieces of equipment. but i ve read some reports that this particular ground service agent was tow qualified. probably had some, just picked up i ohs mow sis the proper sequence to flip the switches and get the fuel valves open to get the engine started. it appears he had the