A pilot with more than four decades of experience in the air joins us to answer one of your

top questions this week.

How safe is it to fly?

I'm Jenna, and this is smarter news.

We've all likely seen the video of a plane upside down on a tarmac in Toronto and likely asked the same

question. How did that even happen? That's one of the questions I asked Scott Petillo. He has spent

more than 45 years in the air, both as a military and commercial pilot. Scott, tell me, when did you

first realize that you actually wanted to become a pilot?

Oh, goodness. I was in high school, and my father was a pilot. My mom was a pilot. My mother, who first flew back in the late 1940s. So she was kind of a trendsetter in her day. So both my parents were pilots. I kind of thought I wanted to do it, but I wasn't sure. But my first solo flight was in Hawaii. So my father was military stationed in Hawaii,

and I actually got to go fly. I took some flying lessons, and that's kind of set the hook.

And I've been flying ever since. Well, it's a really interesting background to have both military

experience and also to have

the commercial pilot experience, which is all the more reason we wanted to talk to you about

the news that is in front of us, because we have a story that's out of Toronto where we had

a plane flip over. And we've all seen the footage for that. I want to talk to you a little bit

about that. But the number one question I'm getting from our community at Smarter News is, what in the world? What should we

even think about when it comes to flying right now? Because we've seen a spate of several different

events that, you know, have captured the world's attention and can make even the most confident flyer a little bit nervous.

So what do you make of just what we've seen over the last several weeks?

A lot of different incidents that raise concerns about safety.

Well, I think people should be raising concerns about safety.

We would be foolish not to be.

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