>>> let's bring in mary schiavo. she is former inspector general at the department of transportation. good to have you with us. i want to start with putting this in some terms that a lot of us remember the story of the miracle on the hudson. if you have this flock of birds that took out that plane, both engines there, what kind of damage could this drone do? >> without a doubt, a drone would take out the jet engine. there is a limit to even what kind of a bird an engine can take. it can't take a goose or any kind of a large bird. the drones are tougher than the bird. it would take out the engine. the laws that are in place now do cover this. they covered it before anywhere around an airport, you cannot operate in the airport area of a major airport like jfk without air traffic control clearance. this particular drone operator broke more than one set of laws. many, many laws were broken here. i did some reading with the floyd bennett field where apparently this happened. that's a place where model plane enthusiasts go

but former inspector general of the department of transportation, mary schiavo, points to what she sees as the problem with the regional airlines in general, cost cutting. >> their whole business model is to fly inexpensive aircraft and save a lot of money, because they have a fixed-price contract. so they can fly cheap planes cheaply. they make money under their contract. if they have more expensive pilots and more expensive planes, they don't. >> the regional airlines association disputes that and told nbc news that their focus is on safety, professionalism and reliability of service. still, there are differences within the industry on how much flying time is required to pilot a commercial airplane. >> you can be done with those ratings in as little as 350 hours of experience. and what happens is when people get out of flight school, and they have their required government ratings, they then move on to the regionals because that's who hires them. >> while major airlines usually pay better, they usually demand that new hires have 1500 flight hours or more. further blame could lie with

we want to go now to mary schiavo and david soucie to talk a little bit about this plane it is.ir. this is a small regional jet. our renee marsh did some research on this. according to aviation safety.net, this particular airline, in july of 2007 the e.u. added this airline to its list of banned carriers because of safety oversight issues. what issues normally would warrant a ban like that, mary? >> in the case of airlines out of indonesia, there were two main ones. one was that indonesia itself had ineffective safety oversight. indonesia's version of the faa was simply ineffective. they didn't have inspectors. they didn't have really the ability to police or control the airlines. and the second problem was training, just really inadequate training, sometimes class room book training where you needed hands-on training. real lack of experience. and the kind of training that we would hope that our own faa enforces on behalf of this country and finally on the atr itself, it's operations in bad weather. particularly icing. you wouldn't expect icing conditions. but the plane is not r

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>> you do. >> mary schiavo, let me just bring this in. your interpretation did that jump out at you whatsoever. this could be semantics to richard quest's point. how did that read for you? >> well, it read certainly less certain than the malaysia official's statement and given that he indicated to me that they were just simply looking at it. i think if they would have found any kind of you know more expansive identification number serial numbers, any kind of markings that were absolutely mh-370 they certainly shouldn't have said so so what that suggests to me they are going to do a full analysis paint analysis and, you know, the very sonnographic and we didn't get too much more from what boeing already told us looking at the pictures and i was disappointed that they don't have -- and it would suggest to me that they don't have a serial number. >> richard quest, i want to hop back to you because the french producer just hopped on to you. >> the correct phrase was a strong indication. >> strong indication. >> difficult from the original tra

mary schiavo is a cnn aviation analyst and former inspector general with the u.s. department of transportation. good to see you. >> thank you. >> so how much confidence do you have in this piece that matches a boeing 777 that was located? is it too ambitious to think that a whole lot of information will come from it? >> no. for the flaperon you can get some information. now i don't think that you can solve the mystery of what brought 370 down but you can get a lot of information. for example, you can rule out if there was an explosion or any kind of a chemical device on the plane from a characteristic pitting that would be on an aircraft part. say there was an explosion in the cargo hold or fuel tank. you can also tell from the flaperon how did it tear from the plane. did it tear in a twisting action or did the pins and bolts holding it on fail maybe even before the plane hit the water or as the plane hit the water and this piece did not go down with the rest of the plane. remember if it ended up on the beach, if the search area is correct, the items would have to

mary schiavo with us, martin savidge with us from paris.hank you. >>> the female suspect being sought in connection with the bangkok bombing had left thailand two months ago according to her mother. over the weekend, police arrested a man in connection with the bombing but they said he isn't the main suspect, he is apparently denying any involvement, but authorities also said they found bomb-making equipment in his apartment when police moved in to capture him. >>> for nearly 2,000 years the temple of baal has been considered the center of religious life near the syrian city of pal miremyrapalmyra, is are trying to destroy what's left of it. the syrian antic we t antiquitiy there was an explosion but witnesses say the temples iconic columns are still standing. last week, isis published photos of the destruction of another ancient temple in palmyra. >>> isis' reign of terror are forcing people flee from their lives. they're not the only ones. freedom the middle east and africa are trying to escape their situations. this year alone, nearly 25

. >>> our cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo joins us now from charleston via webcam to talk about this. mary thanks for your time. a short while back deputy prime minister warren truss of australia mentioned a series of letters and numbers that were seen visible on this flaperon. how much potential information will investigators found once they pull all of it apart? >> well it depends how many of the serial and part numbers survived. now, they had a part number on the end of it which identified it as a flaperon for a 777. however, there are part numbers unique to every part manufactured and part of the regulatory plan in the united states where the plane was assembled is that each part is unique so you can track it. so this part would be unique to this aircraft and this aircraft's part numbers would be unique to the one that belonged to malaysia 370. >> and that though only gets us so far. the aflap number itself won't tell us why the plane went down or necessarily how but it might shed some light as to what condition this part of the plane was in at the moment of impact and that is ke

. >> mary schiavo, thank you for quarter your insight. >>> 17 candidates are descending onto clevelandprime time will be packed onto the debate stage, each given one minute per question to convince voters their vision for america is best. biggest challenge may not be in messaging though but taking the spotlight away from donald trump. but for all the potential gop in-fighting, the head of the republican national committee says all that attention is a good thing. >> we're probably going to have 12 or 15 million people in this country tune in to a republican-only debate in august and i think that in some ways it can be very helpful to our party. >> so will it be helpful to the gop? let's talk about that. i'm joined by the communications director for mike huckabee for president, alice stewart. good morning, alice. >> good morning, carol. thanks for having me. >> thanks for being here. are you nervous for your candidate? >> well there's more of a sense of excitement around the air in the past several weeks as we have been gearing up for the debate as it is for every debate he's ever partic