The turn right here. Stop your climb and stop your turn united flight 601. Two united airliners narrowly miss each other in the sky. Do you know what happened there . You basically crossed directly over the top of each other. Also look at that golf ball hail. It seemed like all hell broke loose. Holy hail, damaging winds and flooding just as the Holiday Weekend begins. I fell through that hole, thankfully i didnt keep falling that way. Trapped 70 feet down on the himalayans mountain side. My right arm is seizing up. I cant use it anymore. An amazing story of survival, live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello, thank you so much for joining me. It has happened again. Two commercial jets packed with passengers coming within seconds from slamming into one another in the sky. This time a pair of United Airlines airbus a320s came within 400 feet of each other as they were taking off from houstons bush enter continental airport two weeks ago. Passengers didnt notice anything.
falling he thought he was going to be dead. he got lucky, he survived and started recording his harrowing experience of how he climbed to safety one inch at a time. i fell through the hole, thankfully i didn t keep falling that way. reporter: trapped alone 70 feet below the ice, professor john aull was broken, bruised and fighting for his life. my right arm is seizing up, i can t use it anymore. reporter: he was liking alone when he plunged into a crevasse, landing on a ledge just three feet wide. his face bloody. he suffered several broken ribs and a fractured arm from the terrifying fall. like the survival drama, 127 hours , the professor made a lifesaving decision to climb out, his camera in tow.