passed through bad weather. within seconds, the aircraft dropped nearly 13,000 feet. the. the pilot has to basically put the plane that s lost the power to its engines in a dive. and that wind going through those engines spins the turbines and helps the pilots get a relight. but even with a relight, getting your engines actually going again, the fuel is burning, you have to be able to sustain those engines. it s a really tricky maneuver. reporter: singapore airlines says the problem started about three and a half hours after departing from singapore. they say one engine regained power while pilots worked on the second. it is something that they re trained to do. and in all cases, on all planes there is a point at which the manuals say, don t try any more diving restarts just look for a place to put it down. and set it down. reporter: this is the latest of several incidents involving asian airliners. in february, both engines on a transasia flight lost power. flight 235 crashed
a serious scare in the air at 39,000 feet tonight. a major airline trying to figure out why both engines on an airbus failed. that means there were no engines operating. the incident happened over the weekend. it was a singapore airlines flight. by the way top-ranked airline in the world. that plane was bound for shanghai. there were 194 people on board that plane. it was just south of hong kong when the two engines both lost power. at that point, the plane started to descend. the pilots were rushing desperately to try to restart the engines. so how did this flight lose power to both engines? and could it happen again? renee marsh outfront. reporter: sing more airlines flight 836 with 194 on board was flying over the south china sea bound for shanghai when both engines went out. the sudden loss of power at 39,000 feet as the jetliner
of fraud. and today we are issuing fifa a red card. reporter: events like the world cup help fifa bring in more than $2 billion a year. the international event draws top players, top tourism and top publicity for the host cities and sponsors. now the justice department says fifa officials have used that allure to earn a cool $150 million in bribes for more than two decades. in exchange it allegedly provided lucrative media and marketing rights to the world cup and other tournaments. fifa worldwide has extraordinary power. this is uber power. we could make the case this is the biggest sports bust in history today. this is historic. this is monumental. reporter: who s among fifa s least trustworthy team of executives. jeffrey webb is directly accused of using his position to solicit kickbacks. according to the irs, top committee member charles blazer
just look for a place to put it down and set it down. reporter: this is the latest of several incidents involving asian airliners. in february both engines on a transasia flight lost power. the flight crashed into a river in taiwan. in december airasia flight disappeared from radar and crashed into the java sea. and malaysia airlines flight 370 from kuala lumpur to beijing disappeared without a trace more than a year ago. but as for singapore airlines, its safety record is one to brag about. this year it was rated one of the top ten safest airlines. our thanks to rene marsh for that report. in our money lead one of america s most iconic magazines is moving away from what made it famous. but will covering up really bring in more profits for playboy ?
of things. the ground saturates and then all of a sudden the water goes up. we didn t get saturation here. 2 or 3 inches and the water goes down and it becomes a mudslide all of a sudden it goes up the river rises and the river did go up. all of a sudden you take all that water and you push it up a hill. and it has to come down into one spot. then you have a problem. here s the river basin for wimberley. down through here san marcos blanco river. right through wimberley, that is the funnel. that s the funneling effect that really got them in trouble. there s the river right there. two coming together, two basins coming together and all of a sudden you push all that water through one place, it goes up 30 feet in two hours. incredible. the convergence comes in one place and you re low ground. thank you very much madd chirs. outfront next two mid-air scares. one plane losing power to both engines in midflight. dropping thousands of feet. 200 people on board. the other almost crashin