he was fired from that airline according to court documents because of mechanical errors. reporting outside reagan national airport, rene marsh, cnn. there is so much to talk about with this story and that s why we need to bring in david ss sousi former airline investigator. could he have crashed this airplane and could he have done something the piles wouldn t have known about until it was too late? the tube is something that was tied to any aircraft and we talk about the 737 max 8. that was the indicating problem or the angle of attack indicator with the peto tube is what caused the max 8 and the air france accident. that was a tube issue and it could have caused a crash or loss of life. in your long experience, has this happened before? an airline mechanic intentionally disrupting something that could damage the
peto tube is outside the plane. it looks like a little tube and measures the airspeed and if it gets clogged up you don t know how fast you re going. you point to different things but i want to know as we go further into the investigation the acar system, and airplane communication and recording system. it gives out signals. when will we find out if the engines were giving out signals? when will we find out if this plane was in distress? i m sure the investigators already know that information. they re not just, just not telling us. so you know, like you said acar broadcast all the information at specific times t may have been in between the broadcast piece but they will have some information before the accident and maybe some right at the event. they re just not telling us. trace: do you think, john, that airbus pilots like we kind of learned in the asiana crash in san francisco are relying too much on computers and not enough on manually flying these
friday they expect to have something on their website that would indicate one way or another. the reports suggest that basically the senior pilot on board flight 447 was, according to standard procedure, was basically not not cockpit when things started developing. on these long-haul flights there are three pilots. the senior pilots takes the landing and takeoff while the other two fly the plane in the space in between. he was on a rest break when things started happening and, according to the reports, he could be heard rushing into the cockpit, trying to take charge of the situation. of course, that failed and the plane broke apart. the question i think that investigators will be looking at before they rush into blaming the pilots necessarily, is whether or not there should have been more done by airbus before this to replace the peto tube which is were frozen over,
canceled flights in scotland and northern england. mr. obama will be visiting buckingham palace where he ll spend two nights. the president left ireland for the uk ahead of schedule last night due to that cloud of volcanic ash. in the u.s., the tornado that blew through missouri has claimed 116 lives and left a trail of destruction. the u.s. national weather service says it was the most deadly tornado in more than 60 years. those are the headlines, i m zain vergee at cnn in london. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories on tuesday, may 24th, under the weather, travel trouble looms as volcanic ash blows towards europe. meanwhile, investors on the continent have caught debt contagent fever. the scramble in the cockpit to save the airliner. they don t have ability to go anywhere. they don t have ability to