Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Chased the plane. So that addresses what Josh Campbell was telling us a second ago. Two f15s chased the plane but were not involved in the crash. So, again, if this is to be believed, the f15s did not shoot that down that play. Lets bring in zack helm. He sat the Seatac Airport right new and joins me on the phone. Zack, i understand you saw this plane while it was airborne . I did not see the plane airborne, but i was this the terminal where it supposedly came out of. Okay. Tell me a little bit what you know, what you saw. Anything you can tell us. Well, i was in the plane, about to take off in the time that it was hijacked. In that very plane . I was not in the plane that was hijacked. I was in another plane in the Alaska Airline industry. And i did not see it take off. But i was told to get out of my plane because if there has been a hijacking. In other words, how long before departure was this . H
think most western intelligence officials are almost certainly leading towards the idea that it was something on board a plane rather than being shut down by missile. those earlier reports seen by eyewitnesses and complained plane did not disintegrate. missiles are very powerful being smitten to blow a plane up and causing it to disintegrate in mid air, this one, as we saw from the video, spiralled down to the cloud to the ground and i think the theories that are being looked at by countries outside of russia are that it was some kind of sabotage, device on board, tampering with the fuel, something like that but i don t think there s any question in peoples minds that it was an accident in this was deliberate. the plane was flying perfectly normally at a normal height and there are no problems on take off and at a normal trajectory
all your viewers. jesse: new ones they are calling them space trash. well, i don t know but everybody please hold onto your valentine s day balloon because, otherwise, we re going to have big problems come tomorrow. [laughter] no, not sure what these are yet because they haven t been able to recover it. and, to be fair, in alaska, it s minus 45 and snowing. going to take a little time what happened of a that chinese balloon this has been true tore president biden his entire life. every foreign policy or every military skills he has made is always too late. and he allowed a chinese balloon that there was no question whether it was no. question you have to put a plane up there to see it. you had a bus flying over collecting all of our data. the chinese aren t bringing this balloon back down so they are probably sending the data back home. he let it go all the way over america before he decided. now, these other ones, they know they are much smaller. not quite sure what they are. bu
crash the plane. it ended with his arrest. cnn national correspondent nadia romero fills us in on the details. reporter: boris, amara, cory patterson is in police custody right now, facing a long list of charges including grand larceny and making terroristic threats. this all started early saturday morning when cory patterson stole a plane from tupelo aviation, that coming from police. police say he was an employee there, he had access to planes. he then took that plane up in the sky, began circling above tupelo, mississippi, threatening to crash that plane into a walmart. authorities then evacuated the walmart, and put up roadblocks around the area, just in case he followed through with that plan. now, we know that negotiators, according to police, were able to make contact with patterson and talk him out of that threat. he then landed the plane in a soybean field, not far from tupelo. and witnesses tell us that he came out of the plane, with his hands up and surrendered himself to
these charges to make their name, to have a name. they wanted my head on their shelf. there is this fbi surveillance may i remind you it s illegal to survey a citizen. but the fbi still had a plane up and tried to twist to to to say i was chasing down mr. rosenbaum. never happened. and the funny thing is, we were not provided that drone footage until october, and they had it way before an phish gave it to them and they compressed that fbi drone video and gave it to us. they gave us a compressed version of that file. so they had a 4 k drone that showed the shooting of mr. rosenbaum. tucker: yeah. do you know what hand break is? no assistant district attorney cross had a software installed on his computer called hand break.