Use the full spectrum of sensors. get a good surface search. then if you do get a ping on the radar, can drop lower to get an electric t electrooptical. you can actually fly really low in that 300-foot range. and get underneath that cloud layer. you can just look with the binoculars. so we do have a full spectrum of sensors. it is all-weather capable. so this is a pretty advanced plan. and like i keep saying, if we fly over any piece of debris we re going to see what it is. it s amazing you can fly 300 feet. i didn t realize so low. the navy is moving into the area the toed ping or locater and something called the blue fin. can you describe what each does? sure. these are going to be some pretty critical pieces of equipment, we hope.
Emergency. oh, we were in climb and had just gone through a cloud layer and you ll hear the whole tape, at the beginning you hear joe the pilot trying to call miami center. he just runs out of air. and i don t specifically remember hearing that because i m just kind of looking out the window, you know, we hadn t been off the ground five minutes but i either heard that or i heard when nate, the first controller, tried to get ahold of us a couple times. something didn t sound right. but whatever it was, made me look directly at joe. you were in a twin engine king air. were you in the back as a passenger or were you right seating this aircraft? i was in the right front seat beside the pilot. okay. lisa grimm, this is a real story about team work with air traffic controllers acting quickly to avert a disaster. how did you handle this? what happened? well, there was quite a lot of controllers in the