they re having people coming in. official giving them the information whenever they need it. what i told you before. an important point to re-emphasize. the main question they re asking, when can i got my father? sister? brother? mother? wife? when can i get them back. they have given up hope they re alive. but they want their bed backodies back. gary you flew into the area not long ago. you said conditions are bad. though they have found this plane. they have located it on sonar. that still doesn t mean that they re going to get to it quickly. that s right. i flew on another indonesian airline, a commuter plane from indonesian island of bali connecting to this airport here a couple of hours ago. the conditions were not good. nothing i haven t seen before with all the flying in our job, don. it was very foggy. very wendy. very blustery. when i was able to see the
they re unacceptable. they re worked on. but there is a backup system and people are safe. reporter: this is what can happen when planes get too close. in 1991, this usair 737 at l.a.x. landed on top of a skywest commuter plane preparing for takeoff. 34 people died. accidents like this are incredibly rare because of collision avoidance systems now mandated in planes. these mistakes can occur through a controller making an error, through a pilot making a mistake. but remember, there is avionics on board, particularly one called tcas, which is collision avoidance assistance. reporter: the faa says it s taken steps to prevent any similar occurrences in the future, but they didn t say what those steps were. well, we know that air traffic controllers, they re usually trained in realtime. now according to the faa, there was an instructor who was
course. yeah, it s been great. and you have a special surprise for us a bit later, i hear. yeah, after i did all this, how do you top elvis? what do you do? stick around, we might show you. we have dramatic video with what so many flyers fear, a plane going down. a passenger camera recorded every frightening second of the small plane crash in hawaii last month. it is an abc news exclusive. reporter: just after takeoff disaster. in this newly released video, you see the ocean surface get closer and closer until impact. take another look. the plane descending quickly, crashing on the surface. within moments, water filling the cabin. as amazingly calm passengers make their way out. the small commuter plane was island hopping to honolulu with nine people on board. all made it out alive. but the state s respected health director who died in the water. passengers credit the pilot for
rain in central texas, prompting dozens of dramatic rescues and evacuations. near austin, two men were killed when they were swept into rushing floodwaters. scores of cities from kansas to tennessee postponed halloween until today. israeli warplanes attacking a military base in syria this week. this information coming from the obama administration, though israeli officials will not confirm it. they say israel targeted missiles and other military equipment they fear could have been given to hezbollah militants in lebanon. the appeals court criticized the earlier judge s conduct and removed her from the case. the ruling puts off a battery of changes for the police department and postpones the planned use of a monitor to oversee reforms of stop and frisk practices. the fbi investigating an apparent security threat that forced the united express flight to be diverted to phoenix. the commuter plane with 47
in know wo of the towers and the other building is on fire. the scene is incredible. people are out of the office buildings and watching and crying and taking pictures. i have never seen anything like this. you saw the first plane. did you get a glimse of what kind of plane that was? we are told it was a commuter plane. it was a mid-sized plane and we could hear it low. a couple of us looked at each other thinking what s happening? it went through the buildings and into the upper floors of the world trade center tower. we want to mention when the impact hit the first tower, we hope that people were in the second tower were beginning to evacuate especially if air traffic control had an indication that this was deliberate, we hope they got