off. it s been variously described as blue out or blue off but it sounds like the tires themselves might have come off this jet. and the jet began circling teterboro airport at that time. it took off a month these are pictures of emergency crews staging at teterboro but there s a new development and i will get to that. this bluetooth tires as it took away from run of four at teterboro it was heading to a similar airport, general aviation airport outside of london, it has been in a holding pattern now for the better part of an hour and 40 minutes or so, and was planning to return to teterboro airport to attempt an emergency landing. so they cleared everything at teterboro which is the largest general aviation airport in america, it s one of i d say six or seven general aviation airports in the general
they are still searching for any signs of life at this hour and still have not found any. martha: obviously they re going to want to figure out how these plans mound up on a path that would allow them to collide. what do we know about that investigation, adam? that is interesting. we have a map to give an idea of the san francisco bay layout. they started at half moon bay. there was an event down there. the pilots were both from the golgold rush country above sacramento. if you draw a straight line, they would ve gone through the south bay, but they went through the north bay where this took place. and the plan that collided making it back, it flew 40 more minutes passing six or seven general aviation airports before landed back in ione. it was a vintage warplane. martha: thank you very much. bill: there are no details in the investigation.
have you heard from the faa and how concerned are you about the effects to the citizens of your town? i haven t heard directly from the faa yet. we sent out letters to our congressional representatives and the faa and said, look, we understand there is a budget crisis here and we re look. we understand that there is a budget crisis here. we re willing to work with them. need to cut back on the hours to provide safety, safe air travel here in our area. another concern that affects the area, all the towered airports with the exception of b.w.i. are going to be closing. that will put an extra burden on the tower people in bwi. we are the second largest municipality in the state of maryland and the second largest general aviation airport in the state of maryland behind bwi so the amount of extra pressure being put on that airport without the general aviation airports like frederick is a
phoenix, we don t know if this was mechanical different or what happened in this situation. in is this is sort of the largest general aviation airport. it s kind of a backup server facility to sky harbor which is the large international airport in phoenix, of course. this is one of the most active general aviation airports in the country, though. and we re just keeping one ear open to this cover pilot who is keeping the scene from above. bill: when there s a pause in his reporting, in all likelihood it s the anchors at the local station, in fiend i. there, asking him a question so this might ab bit scratchy off and on here but he s our eyes and ears literally from the sky now, aboard this helicopter, and above that warehouse in deer valley. there is an eyewitness, a local tv pilot who may be the gentleman on air now, saw the plane nose dive into the northwest side of that building just after 6:00
nice to be here. is this a major lapse in national security. the bare foot bandit who now has shoes was able to tale five airplanes. it is not difficult to take a general aviation out of most of those airports. there are 15,000, of them. why is it so easy. they don t have the same kind of security. some of them are patches of land outside of the barn in the midwest of you, are general aviation airports that are open to the public . the rest are private airports owned by individual and some have fences and tope some don t. have towers and some don t. some have the ignitions keys to the plane. a dozen of the small planes on average are stolen every year . so how does this, this is obviously sort of amusing when