have for crash response with their vehicles there, it might be wise to go there. if i were a pilot, i would do the same. miles, stand by. tory, stand by. i want to bring in mike brooks working his blackberry as i m bringing him in here. our law enforcement analyst at our sister network, hln. this lear jet 45 is headed from this smaller airport to the massive st. louis airport, presumably to a myriad of ambulances on the ground there as well. right. they have a better eter aircra rescue firefighting capability. it is a larger it is a larger runway. concrete is their friend, is what miles said. right. and as they re flying around, burning off the fuel, you don t want to have weight and any kind of fire. but going to lambert field in st. louis it a larger airport, major airport, because where we saw them flying around, where we have been watching for the last
at it and confirm that information with the faa to get the latest on that. but from our understanding, what we know is there was actually this c-21 doing touch and goes, which, again, brooke, that s part of training had it comes to piloting the plane. okay. tory, bring us, as people are tuning in and watching the live pictures, bring us back up to speed as far as you ve been in touch with the faa what have they confirmed with you? so what the faa has confirmed at this point is that this was a lear jet 45, that there are reported problems with the landing gear door and it s possible they could be troubleshooting the problem. and their goal is to come into the airport. there is, of course, this potential for an emergency landing, which, brooke, is why we have seen those ambulances on the tarmac there, the four different ambulances. also the emergency crews ready. and if you look at the overhead picture here, what you ll notice is there is really not a lot of traffic beyond, again tha
information and this is from the air force, apparently that c-21, the lear jet that we have seen with the air force, just happened to be doing training in the area, touch and goes, which is really part of the aircraft training and why the jet we have seen with the air force markings was going up and down and put its gear up and down. and from the air force, the information is they have no other information about the civilian jet, which is in trouble. we re trying to sort all this out at the moment, figuring out if in fact the plane that we have seen sort of going around the airport is the one in trouble. gotcha. so to be crystal clear, as we re all sort of looking at this together, live on tv there are two planes we re talking about. one is the lear jet 45 with these eight people on board. this is the plane that is having the nose gear problems, having this issue of landing here at the st. louis downtown airport. there is a second plane that you ve confirmed with air force, that just
very thing. is that the plane? i don t think okay. okay. does not look like a lear jet to me. you re correct. the plane landed. that s not the aircraft that we have been focusing a great amount of attention on but it s landed. at this airport lambert international airport. jim, if everything is okay then once again your expertise and knowledge of the aviation industry paid off in gold for us as you said that this would probably play out this way. so again, this is video from near the airport. the helicopter for ksdk getting there on the scene but at least right now we re being told that this learwith at least eight people landed i don t want to say safely. i don t know the details and from looking at the screen we can t tell you much there but we re told it s landed, tom. that s the limited amount of information because that could have been a rough landing. we don t know the details.
jim nillman. we believe about eight people on the leer jet. the latest information i received, still about 40 miles away from the airport and the pilot still trying to quote troublesho troubleshoot. what does that mean, jim? well, may try to exercise the gear and see if it will center on its own. that landing gear as it is retracted in to the fuselage is supposed to center. it has a mechanism to make sure it s centered at the time it s stowed. if possible, obviously, that s what they would love to be able to do is get it in to the belly and then bring it back out again. it may not even get in the belly right now. it depends on what malfunctioning took place. so he s going to do what he can and that s his options are fairly limited and of course he can t see that gear from the cockpit. wow. tom, let s bring you back in.