that independence and peace are mutually exclusive. and also coming from taiwan, the air force has scrambled jets i made this military threat from china. amid this military threat. let s get more on this now with our asia pacific regional editor, celia hatton. it feels like things are ratcheting up it feels like things are ratcheting up a bit. it it feels like things are ratcheting u- a bit. ., up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a little up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a little bit up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a little bit of- up a bit. it might feel that way but i should put a little bit of caution l i should put a little bit of caution around this. in comparison to the drills we saw last august after the then us house speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan, these drills are a little bit more measured. we are still seeing n
as to where the crash happened. what s it in and. yes ma am. despite our losses, we were lucky because they re able to land in an open field across from a residential area. so thankfully, there were no additional casualties or injuries as a result of the aircraft crash. yes sir. abc on nashville. are these helicopters you talked about getting data from members equipment like a black box likely here. passenger planes go down or is it for this computer type instruments situated yes, sir. they do have something very similar to the black boxes that we see on the larger aircraft. and we re hopeful that that will provide quite a bit of information of what what occurred. yes, ma am. do you expect to reach out to the please. yes ma am. we
flames, a smoke filling the cabin, and an emergency landing. it is all alarming to passengers on the southwest flight from cuba to florida, which the airline says had to turn back after hitting birds. an explosion. a lot of smoke. people were screaming, not knowing what to do, and we kept trying to breathe and filling up with more smoke is very acid. in boston, a trifecta of trouble, federal authorities say in manitoba do open an exit door on a united jet coming from los angeles, and allegedly tried to stab a flight attendant with a broken spoon before being tackled by other passengers. on the ground, to departing passenger planes collided as one of them was pushed back from its gate, and all of that is just a week after a near collusion between two other jets. one, a private jet taking, off the other commercial jet landing. aviation analysts say airports
passenger planes collided as one of them was pushed back from its gate, and all of that is just a week after a near-collision between two other jets. one a private learjet, the other a commercial jet landing. airports are struggling with this rash of hits and near-collisions. they ve developed a lot of runway alerting systems, and they have a lot of advisory programs. but despite all the efforts runway incursions are increasing. the statistics are headed the wrong way, and it is the most dangerous thing in aviation today. reporter: and, still, more trouble. last week a lufthansa plane carrying, among others, actor matthew mcconaughey and his wife camilla ran into severe te turbulence. suddenly, there was just like this big drop, and everything just flew everywhere, and it was