ashley: back a fox news alert. a boeing 737 jet liner with 132 people on board crashing in the mountains in one of china s southern provinces. official says the aircraft lost contact over the city and nose dived 30,000 feet. the plane was carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members. no word on the number of deaths or injuries aboard the china eastern airlines flight. we will, of course, bring you more details as soon as we get them. we want to warn you the video in next story is graphic. a 23-year-old man is in critical condition after being run over by a driver doing donuts in new york city. the nypd releasing this chilling video showing the victim falling in front of that drifting car. police say he suffered a fractured skull. brain injury and severe body trauma. police are asking for help identifying the driver in that red car. now to march magness.
on monday. 132 passengers and crew on board. no survivors have been found so far. according to chinese state media. cnn has more. reporter: new video shows one of the world s most popular jet liner dropping from the sky. security images obtained by state owned television show china eastern airlines flight 5735 plunging straight down into the mountains of southern china. data shows minutes after leveling off at a cruising altitude of 29,000 feet. the boeing 737 began a rapid dive. losing more than 25,000 feet in less than two minutes. china state media says all 132 people on board were killed. this is what they would have heard in the cockpit. retired airline pilot teaches in this boeing 737 simulator. he notes the plane in question was a boeing 737 800. which lacks technology behind the crashes of 737 max.
isn t an accident anymore. talk about the infrastructure you had around you that allowed you, in the elapsed time of two minutes, to go out and tell the leader of the free world what happened here. candidly, chiefs of staff have to make decisions all day long, does the president need to know. it s amazing how many people come in, i have to see the president right now. so i wrestled with that after a navy captain, deb lowery, she came to me, she was the director of the white house situation room, went on to become an admiral, one of the first admirals in the navy, she told the president it appeared to be a prop plane, told me it was a commercial jet liner and then said, my god, another plane. and that s when i stood there and said to myself, does the president need to know? yes, he does.
different ways. reporter: and a lot of powerful moments too, fred. one of them happened an hour ago when the solemn task we heard echoing through lower manhattan ending, at least signaling the end of that particular ceremony, as you mentioned, the commander in chief starting a full day of attending multiple memorials by making the stop here in new york earlier this morning. at dawn, the unfurling of a flag over the side of the pentagon hit by jet liner 20 years ago signaled the beginning of the day of tributes. it s one of three sites where americans gathered in somber remembrance, honoring each one of the 2,977 people killed in the terrorist attacks on september 11th. at the footprints where the twin towers proudly stood over lower manhattan, president joe biden and the ferus lady joined by the obamas in a sea of 9/11 families
station and saw the towers burning and i ran down to the assignment desk and when i heard vernon gross was on our air probably a small plane lost in the sun and saysna. i ran out into the newsroom i said no, i saw the plane it was a jet liner, i thought it was a 737. no, and i went right on the air knew right away it was a terrorist attack. flying an airliner into a building is a terrorist attack and certainly when the second one hit i already knew. look, i have covered this terrorism in this city for well, will fourth generation now. they always newcome back we are a target whether it s in this city. it is this country. they hate us. it s as simple as that they hate what we stand for. and they always wanted to try to return and this sadly was that momented that i been dreading for years, not only what happened but realizing