asleep on the job . since april seven inchances of controllers sleepping on the job. listen to the controlling of the radio conversation between the pilot and controller from another tower. i am going to take a guess and say that the controller got locked out. i heard of this happening before. yeah it happened a year ago. there is no one in the tower. michigan controller
reports of pilot error. and now to a heroic midair save in the sky. it happened when a private pilot became incapacitated leaving his wife to fly that plane despite not being a pilot. as nbc s tom costello reports for us, it all started when they discovered the pilot s oxygen mask was not working. reporter: it was a brief radio conversation between a private pilot and a denver air-traffic controller that brought the first sign of trouble. okay. that s the after two arrival. maintain unseven reporter: the message was unintelligible. quickly charlie rohr, a 22 year veteran controller realized the pilot may be flying too high. i think you my be experiencing some hypoxia. would you like to lower altitude. reporter: soon his wife who isn t a pilot was on the radio.
we have some economic data that s pushed around the major averages but the dow is higher than 39 points. the s&p is higher by 5. the nasdaq is up by 13. pay pal which is owned by ebay is taking google to court. in a lawsuit filed yesterday pay pal alleges that google stole its idea for a pay by smartphone service. suit also implicates a google executive who used to work at pay pal who think they may have shared the technology. consumer spending ticked up slightly in april. much of that increase was driven by higher food and gas prices. that s it from cnbc, we are first in business worldwide. martin, back to you. thank you. this next story may have you glad you re getting away by car this holiday weekend. look at what happened when the pilot of a private aircraft becomes incapacitated and the only person that can help is his wife who has never thrown a plane in her life. nbc s tom costello has the story. reporter: it was a brief radio conversation between a private pilot and a
his train being truck by something. our investigation is nothas not independently confirmed this information but we have seen damage to the left hand lower portion of the amtrak windshield that we have asked the fbi to come in and look at for us. joining me now is nbc news correspondent rahima ellis. thank you for being here. absolutely rev. what you were just playing there was the ntsb official telling us about an assistant conductor who was in the fourth car of amtrak train 188, talking about a radio conversation she heard between the engineer of her train, the fatal amtrak 188 and a local philadelphia commuter train, they call them septa.
train in philadelphia moments before it derailed on tuesday. the crash killed eight people and injured more than 200 others. meanwhile, crews are working very hard to get limited service up and running in time for tomorrow s commute. brian ennis is live in philly and picks up the story from there. bryan? reporter: hi first to the conflicting report. on friday the ntsb soliscited the help of the fbi to invest whether a flying projectile hit the train. investigators relying on two main pieces of information. a circular break in the windshield on the lower left side and a statement from an assistant conductor on board the train saying she heard the engineer have a radio conversation with another local septa train engineer and they said they were hit or shot at before the crash. passengers on a southbound amtrak train also say their train was hit by an object