control that aircraft, there is something called pilot engine dead reckoning and the pilot knows his last known position, he can use his watch and estimate his speed and then they can know when they are going to reach the malaysian peninsula or some of those islands which would be a little more difficult to get to. but in those instances, the pilot would see ground lights. i understand it was a clear night. and they would then navigate to a major metropolitan center and circle about it as they are descending, locating an airport that has a rotating beacon, a light that shines and blinks white and red denoting an airport. so the pilots know how to find those airports and they could have successfully landed on a runway shorter than 10,000 feet. now, perhaps they ve run off the end of the runway but they would
breeze. as night fell, authorities lit up the scene with lights both from choppers and on ground lights and from surrounding buildings, deployed flash-bang grenades, a number of flash-bang grenades, could have been to disorient the subject or test whether or not the subject was in fact conscious, to see whether the subject was actually reacting to those grenades. deb feyerick reporting that the subject does have some medical issues, needs medical attention, and then again, just around 8:44, 8:45, elizabeth cohen reporting the suspect had been taken out, removed from the scene. the crowd broke into applause, a police officer confirming in fact that they have the suspect in custody, and that was followed up very quickly by a tweet from the boston police department. of course, there is celebration, no doubt, in bars throughout the city of boston and all over, a lot of bars are probably going to be opening up. i think a lot of people also, their thoughts and prayers continue to be with all