bushy terrain. let s go live to janet oh with new information tonight. janet? reporter: crews found the remnants of the plane on palomares road. deputies will be here throughout the night and awaiting national transportation safety board and faa to arrive and also waiting for the coroner, who will decide if they ll be able to retrieve the body and get it out of the steep, hilly area. the challenge is the terrain here. first, crews have been out here in the thick forested area, looking for the wreckage, which they did find. they also found one person who is believed to be the pilot and the only person on board. the sacramento bee confirmed the pilot that was flying to work. we learned it was a
a pilot deployed his chute over the pacific ocean when he had a fuel problem inch 2009, a chute brought this plane down safely into a d.c. suburb. you pull down, and then with two hands you pull straight down, about 40, 45 pounds of pressure. and the parachute, which is in the back of the plane, will deploy. reporter: it s a standard feature in barry goldberg s 2015 cirrus. ultimately the parachute is a safety feature of last resort. i have one more tool in my bag as a pilot to ultimately end a situation successfully. reporter: the parachute maker says its devices have saved at least 361 lives. scott, in this most recent incident, the f.a.a. and n.t.s.b. are now investigating. pelley: kris van cleave, thanks, kris. an uber driver wants a passenger to pay dearly for slapping him. that s next. ing him. that s next. if a denture were to be
we have new details tonight in the case of that miracle survivor. the young woman, the plane carrying her and her step-grandparents, crashing over the weekend. her grandparents did not survive. she did. emerging from the woods after more than two days. and tonight, for the first time here, her 911 call, and the unlikely thing she says taught her how to stay alive. here s abc s ryan owens. reporter: a selfie in her hospital room. she s 16, after all. autumn veatch continues to recover, even watching news coverage of her survival story. tonight, we hear the young woman s voice for the first time, as she tells a 911 operator how she lived through a plane crash. yeah i m the only one that survived. okay. are you injured at all? yeah, i have a lot of burns on my hands and i m, like, kind of covered in bruises and scratches and stuff. reporter: they were flying from montana to washington state
you can see the scorch marks. amazingly, no one on the highway was injured. smoke and fire billowed from the crash, happening right in front of startled drivers. it wasn t higher than the top of my truck. i guess it was god telling me to slam on my brakes. reporter: gerald smith had a very close encounter with the out of control aircraft. i heard an impact, and the plane was up against the wall, burning. reporter: all four onboard, a father, two sons, and a son s fiancee heading from asheville, north carolina, to another son s graduation at ole miss. the piper cherokee six had stopped for fuel at an airport on the outskirts of atlanta. at 10:00 a.m., takeoff, and there are problems quickly. the pilot reportedly calmly telling controllers he has trouble and then, hey, we are going down. heading straight for that busy highway, impacting the five-foot wall between the two sides of the highway. it was like a bomb being dropped or something. all you see is a huge black plume of
after all the hype for this megafight, a lot of fans walked away feeling defeated. tom? t.j., thank you. also in las vegas, while all eyes were on the big fight, another drama was taking place a few miles away. a former student pilot allegedly stealing a small plane and going for a joyride. when he finally came in for a landing, the police were waiting for him. clayton sandell has more. reporter: the calls about a possibly rogue pilot in a twin engine plane like this one, flying over las vegas, started coming in saturday just after midnight. he claims that he stole an airplane from the airport. reporter: allegedly at the controls, 27-year-old evan grant, reportedly a former flight school student. authorities watching nervously. a twin engine over a highly populated area is a formula for disaster. reporter: but as he flies, grant begins talking to an alert air traffic controller. i kind of screwed up your night, didn t i? i just want you to get down on the ground safel