i wouldn't fly on valujet.he company tried to get us to dead head, dead head means ride in position to take your flight as pilot on valujet, i refused because they had bad safety record and bad training. i knew pilots very dissatisfied there. when you look at air ma share that -- malaysia. in years of record profits last couple years that company was teetering on bankruptcy. corners get cut on when they're losing money. i'm very leery of budget carriers. that does not mean this one falls exactly into that realm. lufthansa as the parent company has a excellent reputation. gerri: they do. eight million people fly every single day. safer than backing out of your driveway in your car typically. before you go, i phil, i want to get both of you to weigh in, if you're concerned tonight booking a trip, is there something in planning you can do that will reassure the family reassure you that to make sure you will be safe? phil, to you first. >> this is sort of difficult if the plane will crash into a mountain you can do

ever since the valujet debacle, we haven't had anything in the u.s. if you're on a scheduled passenger airline within the us, and within the eu, you'll be safe. other areas in the country. how many people in america know what transasia is? most people don't know who they are. i'd state of off of e is this demand for flying worldwide the airlines are in the driver's seat no pun intended, in the cockpit. that is the one thing, accidents will remain the force in play here. what do you think? >> absolutely. >> i think that's true. but there's a lot of other variables. you have the variables of the infrastructure itself. is there a radar in asia the same way there's radar in the united states? is there the type of air traffic control in africa the same way in the united states? that's why those continents have much -- >> it's always mentioned in these type of accidents the threat of terrorism seems to be more pronounced abroad than it is here. tougher here to pull some nasty stuff than it is there. i don't know if you concur with that. but it gets more scr

>> rd, you werejose, you were here when the valujet crashed. a turning point.think maybe low cost means cutting corners on safety. in the case of valujet, that was the case. that really taught these airlines. you know low costs can mean cutting amenity not serving meals and so forth, but safety is out of the question in terms of looking at cost. that has been the trajectory ever since then. southwest decades ago set the standard for that. a very basic product but a very safe one and now all of these airlines and certainly germanwings, subsidiary of luf lufthansa operates that way. airlines failed for economic reason but very safe to fly. >> good to see you. thanks for being with me. >>> by the way, at 10:53 a.m. german time, germ'sanwings and lufthansa employees gathered for a moment of silence. bringing in angie goff. >> reporter: exactly right. you mentioned earlier, two americans now added to this list of 150 victims. family and friends in more than a dozen other countries, we've learned, also among the mourners. most of the victims are from spain as well as