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that come over the transpond her even if it got turned off before. if the transponder was somewhere turned off, could that plane land somewhere and no one know about it? well, yes. if the transponder was switched off and the plane was no longer transmit squawking as it s known, yes the plane the transponder has nothing to do with the ability of the aircraft to fly. it s literally i m here, this is who i am. what would have happened, as that plane was flying, there would be full scale full throttle radar tracks. yes, the 777 could have flown low and tried to evade. you re not talking about a fighter jet. you re talking about the largest twin engine jet in the world. that s unlikely. there s one other point.
continuing to get more information on this turkish airliner. reports that a person made a bomb threat tried to get the plane diverted to sochi, let s go to nick paton walsh. there s not a detail at the moment. tell us what you know. reporter: it s very preliminary information right now, michael. what we do know is that an aircraft that was heading from an industrial town in eastern ukraine bound for istanbul according to our affiliate cnn whilst a plane on the air a man on board said at this point to be a ukrainian international said there was a bomb on board the plane and he asked instead the plane land at the airport on the asiatic side of the city of istanbul, but instead it be diverted sochi. i should make clear according to turkish officials that plane has landed in istanbul, is in a safe zone in the airport and the bomb threat is now being investigated
itself, the integrity of the instruments on board. if everything was working. if the flight data recorder, all that, you re going to go through all that information. isn t isn t the first time we ve seen a plane land at the wrong airport with a much shorter run way. no, it happens. unfortunately, when it does, it does get a lot of attention. in this particular case there was no loss of life. so we ll look at this one and see just what we can do to prevent it from happening again. you learn lessons and then you move on. you learn lessons and you build them back into the training programs at the air carrier so we move on. eventually this plane managed to take off despite the short runway. were you surprised it did? no, because of the performance characteristics of that aircraft, they had minimum fuel, no passengers no cargo or baggage on board. that airplane can lift off and get off safely. next on cnn, the new jersey governor christie now facing a new federal probe even as
york on the road. on its way back the plane started having engine problems. the pilot was forced to land on a highway in the bronx area. the plane hit the ground. they came straight down. they hit the tree tops. and we helped escort the passengers off the truck. i told them to get inside my vehicle, to stay warm. road crews were able to stop traffic and close down lanes to help the plane land. no one was seriously hurt in that. caught on video, check this out, a woman is thrown into the air by an 1100 pound raging bull. oh. this happening at a popular bull fighting event in costa rica. the bull is the usher. he s helping her find her seat. where was i sitting? that s right. you re in a5.