different emergency systems that allow them to go out and notify other ships in the area. the problem is that such a busy location. what s interesting about this, it was actually equipped with the defense missile. the systems on the ship are very sophisticated. it s used to detect someone north korea s missiles and shoot down intermediate range ballistic missiles. the fact that this was hit and had a collision east of singapore, we really hope everyone is okay and the rescue mission is underway with different coalition partners. you mention this is the second time it s happened under the seventh fleet command, but there have been four incidents involving our u.s. navy vessel since february. as you know, they will be
people witnessed this spectacle from many vantage points. one passenger aboard another plane described to cnn what he saw. listen to this. looked like the emergency systems deployed as they were designed to do. obviously the first thing i thought of is how would you react in that scenario? the people were running fast and looked like a lot came out at once. i imagine everybody was trying to get out a as quickly as possible. we landed from denver and as we pulled on the runway, we pulled to a stop and heard screaming on the plane as far as off to the right side. looking out the right side, it was the left engine that was completely on fire. a lot of black smoke engulfing the plane. dan simon spoke to one of the british airways passengers as he was hustled on to an ambulance. listen as he describes what he
there were actually people in it or if the people had evacuated and then all of a sudden, we saw the doors fly open and slides inflate and at that time we saw droves of people jumping out of a slide and running across the runway away from the plane. did it look ordinarily? we all wonder how people cannot panic in that situation, but did it look like it was happening the way it should happen? looked like the emergency systems deployed as they were designed to do. obviously, the first thing i thought of is how would you react in that scenario? definitely the people were running fast and looked like a lot of people came out at once so i imagine everyone was trying to get out of the plane as quickly as possible. your plane was landing at that time. did your flight did anything different? did they get you to the gate quickly? how did the airport, i imagine the airport
were trampling over one another to get onboard helicopters. hundreds of passengers were stuck on the vessel s upper deck for more than a day, suffering through hail and heavy winds. investigators are still trying to figure out what happened. john, what is going on with this investigation? well, john, we know it s going to be a criminal investigation because of the fatality, you at least ten, and because of possible safety deficiencies with the ferry. now, there are reports coming out that there may have been problems with the fire doors malfunctioning fire doors and also with the ship s emergency systems. as mentioned, one passenger said the fire alarms didn t go off until smoke started filling up the cabins and basically forcing people from the cabins and that there were no crew members to give people directives. so investigators will look into all that. if negligence may have played a role, and of course, what started the fire in the first
with the com radios, turn them off or don t answer the call. it s not necessary that you have to disable the radio. are there emergency systems that cannot be turned off? and if no, why not? with the transponders, alex, you need you need to turn those boxes off when you are on the ground because it creates clutter with the air traffic controllers when it s properly working. the big thing here is to have an emergency system up and running all the time for a tracking device isn t really practical because there are a number of situations where that would create radar-type clutter. however, there s a system, absb that is being integrated. it updates every second. it will provide air traffic controllers instantaneous data all the way through the entire