some light on what certainly has turned into one of the biggest mysteries of aviation history, oliver mcgee. thank you for joining us u what is your view on what most probably happened? >> thank you for having me, too today eric. as i said on hannity a year ago there are still things missing, the plane and patience. patience has been forced upon us. the preliminary report that wasssed just momentarily is having one safety recommendation, and that is global flight tracking. this is coming from the international civil aviation organization. preliminary findings and study on february 2 to 5, 2015, asking for global flight tracking. right now we track aircraft for about every 30 minutes in oceanic flights. they are probably going to be pushing back to do that tracking every 15 minutes, even as low as 10 minutes. and this is good news, because when we have, since 1948 80 oceanic remote aircraft that have been lost we've only found three this is the fourth. >> that's unbelievable when you say there have been 80. the vast distances in the south indian ocean are unbelievable. they've scoured about

oliver mcgee, howard university. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. melissa: taking the pulse of america. it is the not pretty. why one in three americans still have not recovered from the great recession six years later. >>> plus, we've got more on developing situation at laguardia. how a near disaster in new york is affecting the rest of the nation's travel. more "money" up next. melissa: bad news on the economy. the country still feeling like it is 2008. nearly one in three americans have not recovered from the recession. that's a huge number. it is according to a new survey from pew research. let's bring the panel back in. charlie gasparino david asman, rich lowery. rich, does it surprise you? >> no it is a recovery still not felt by a lot of people. there is a disconnect between indicators like employment numbers and stock market and popular opinion about the state of the economy. what is most striking from the pew numbers, look from february 2011 basically the same. the improvement is tiny just at the margins. melissa: you're right. just barely.

i want to bring in oliver mcgee. he joins us from washington. he is a former u.s. deputy assistant secretary of transportation. thank you so much for joining us. you served in that role from 1999 to 2001. and, you have seen, you've seen a lot of accidents in your day. what do you make of this one? >> well, i think this is probably an issue on equipment. it appears to be best speculation says it may be a decompression that took place. we're talking about pilots use of glasscock pit, fly-by-wire, airbus series, compared to fly by cable on the boeing series. pilots like to fly by cable because they can feel the aircraft better. they feel how it moves. aviate and 1/2 gaat better. fly-by-wire, cockpits sometimes they black out. this could happen here if we speculate. everything i'm say something speculation until we get the black boxes in place. that is a preference between the pilots of the insofar having recordings inside of the cockpit that is a good . mr. hall is suggesting because the more information we get, the better we know how to investigate these crashes. mel