jump in and help. welcome back to early start, everyone. great to see you this morning. i m john berman. and i m zoraida sambolin. it s 30 minutes past the hour. this morning, we re covering breaking news off the coast of florida where the search is on for any survivors of a frightening plane crash. a leerjet plunged into the ocean just minutes after taking off from ft. lauderdale international airport. the wreckage brought to shore on a coast guard boat. on the flight, were two pilots and two passengers said to be a doctor and a nurse. the plane was moved by a company that moved sick patients around the world. two bodies, a male and a female has been recovered. there are two others missing. it appears that something went wrong just after the plane departed. the pilot radioed air traffic controllers that he wanted to return to the airport. you re going back to ft. lauderdale. we have engine failure. maintain 4,000 and turn left
feels right. you okay? it s great. a man has got know when to walk away. so, mr. rodman one way thanks. guys, this is just examples of how everything is just right in the sports world. i think my favorite part of that is brett favre saying he knew when to stop eating the pie. i got to say, everything comes to the price. those guys got paid a whole lot of money to do that. evander holyfield, the guy got his ear bit off and he s still hugsing mike tyson. a lot of crazy news. a leerjet falls from the sky off the florida coast. continuing coverage of frantic searches for survivors this morning when we come back.
the water. not paying that much attention. i was like it s really strange for a plane to be flying so low. maybe 30 minutes later, the coast guard reporter: they struggled to find survivors, helicopters and about a dozen boats scoured the area. searchers and responders located debris. shortly thereafter located two bodies. reporter: the wreckage brought aboard a coast guard boat, the two bodies immediately brought to shore. it s still an ongoing and very active scene. reporter: the leer jet 35 was part of air evac international, a medical plan originating in mexico. according to officials, the parent was dropped off and the plane was returning to mexico with the pilot, co-pilot, doctor and nurse on board. when the accident occurred. now, the coast guard says it will continue the search throughout the morning and into the afternoon. and then re-evaluate the situation. they also add that they did not
mississippi river in the st. louis area. okay. and the trees beyond, is it a fairly rural area in the immediate vicinity from some of these the tarmac there? no, this is this is residential. residential. okay. okay, diane earhart, i m going to let you go. i hear phones ringing in the background. we ll hopefully have you back and you can update us on the situation here. i want to bring in miles o brien. you ve been covering aviation for years and years. what is your assessment as we re sort of learning that this plane here, this lear jet 45 has some sort of issue according to the faa with its landing gear door and they re troubleshooting right now. what is your assessment? well, you know, the situation in this case is time is your friend, fuel permitting, of course. and so what a good flight crew will do in this case is not rush things. fuel dependent, of course.
forth that they might not have begun their journey with a full tank of fuel. miles, let me jump back in, this is brooke. you know, given this sort of jet, do we have any idea what kind of training a pilot or pilots on board this kind of lear jet 45 might have for scenarios like this one? well, you know this is the kind of these are the kinds of things you do train for in simulators. you obviously don t want do this in the real world except when you have to, right? so but as part of recurrent training for a flight crew that is involved in flying these for charter and so forth, there would be and to get your certification to fly this, what they call a type rating, a certification to fly this particular type of aircraft, among the scenarios you would consider is how to handle gear up landing or perhaps more importantly how to handle a scenario where the gear won t go down. what you try to do to make that landing gear go down. so very likely, you know, hopefully, in the case of