and that very significant statement was lost on air traffic control. at 9:22, the flight is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk, and strong wind sheer, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. nowhere did the first officer ever use the word emergency. if that word had been used, they would have given them immediate priority to get them on the ground. climb, maintain 3,000. negative, sir. we just we re okay at 3,000. at 9:34 p.m. the flight runs out of fuel, engines flame out. this passenger remembers that horrible silence. the lack of noise, it is horrendous impression. you have the wind against the
right now with a lot of heavy snow and it is hard to move around. imagine a plane trying to gather speed for a takeoff there the other problem is this. we ll ask my photographer to pan out to the top of the ibm and trump tower. you have a low cloud ceiling you can t see the top of the trump tower in chicago. that low cloud ceiling means at a lot of airports, particularly o hare, we have ground stops going on. that is major headache for any kind of traveler, until that lifts then you can t even move traffic in or out. if you can it moves really slowly. between the weather and cloud sealing it will be difficult for air traffic flowing midwest to east today. bill: big ripple effect out of o hare too, our nation s second busiest. thank you, steve brown. it is late february in chicago. martha: all right. we ve got breaking news just happening moments ago. we have learned that the president says he will meet with the four top congressional leaders on friday at the white house. they re going
first officer, who was the pilot handling the radios, told them they could no longer make boston. and that very significant statement was lost on air traffic control. at 9:22 pm, avianca flight 52 is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. nowhere did the first officer ever use the word emergency. if that word had been used, they would have given them immediate priority to try to get them on the ground. avianca 52 climb to maintain 3000. negative, sir. we are just running out of fuel. okay. at 9:34 p.m., flight 52 runs out of the fuel, the engines flame out. passenger nester zarate remembers that horrible silence. the lack of that noise is
their alternate was, which was filed for boston action but the first officer, who was the pilot handling the radios, told them they could no longer make boston. that very significant statement was also lost on air traffic kr08. at 9:212 p.m., the flight is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. nowhere did the first officer ever use the word emergency. if that word had been used, they would have given them immediate priority to get them on the ground. we just running out of fuel. at 9:34 p.m., flight 52 runs out of the fuel, the engines flame out. passenger nester zarate
was lost on air traffic control. at 9:22 p.m., avianca flight 52 is finally cleared to land. but with an extremely low cloud ceiling above jfk and strong wind shear, the pilot misses the attempt. the plane is again diverted from the airport. nowhere did the first ever use the word emergency. if that word had been used, there would have been immediate priority to get them on the ground. at 9:34 p.m., flight 52 runs out of fuel. the engines flame out. the passenger remembers the horrible silence. the lack of that noise is sort of it s a horrendous impression. you have the wind against the fuselage.