we have an active shooter situation in the airport. we are not parking at the terminal out of an abundance of safety for yourselves. >> wow. >> that claim of an active shooter clearly proved to be inaccurate and an example of the panicked assumptions of the moment. that audio was recorded by cnn's own isabel rosales as she sat aboard a flight that landed on the tarmac. wow, isabel, your recording nothing short of bone chilling. the last thing you're going to hear, right? when you're on an airplane. how did you and your fellow passengers react? >> pam, good evening to you, first of all. it was an instant moment of did he actually just say that, an active shooter? throughout the airplane just a stunned silence as people soaked that in, as people soaked in the potential gravity of the situation as americans just by