plane crashed monday. the plane didn t catch fire, which was surprising. the whole area was inundated with fuel, we were actually afraid to use our cutting tools. reporter: former alaska senator ted stevens was one of the five people who died. former nasa chief sean o keefe and his son were among the four survivors. they were all conscious and they were all able to speak. i was primarily working on cutting the hole in the airplane. reporter: the plane may have crashed because of bad weather. something the ntsb will look into. the impact from the crash was so hard, it left a gash in the mountain. the crash was the second rescue effort in alaska. sunday, donald urbe s small plane came across bad weather and made an emergency landing on a glacier, leaving him and four friends stranded. they were to go up on a half hour, 45-minute max flight trip up around the glacier. reporter: the quick trip has
work a flight but i feel if i m not then i m letting down all those who cooperate. delta s ceo used steven slater as an example of how to treat flight attendants. we might all take a lesson and be respectful of what they do. reporter: flight crews are forced to deal with everything from carry-ons to chaos. to help handle the problem, jet blue has been turning former firefighters and police officers into flight attendants. the background brings a professionalism, demeanor and calmness, and an ability to execute under pressure. reporter: not exactly how steven slater handled the situation. in a jet blue internal memo his bosses reportedly scolded his behavior and the media for turning it into a humorous example of walking off the job. he s still employed but the company tells abc news he s been removed from duty pending an investigation. so good thing, when one door closes are you going to lose your job? more than likely. reporter: another always opens. andrea canning,
researchers say they have discovered a new gene that can turn any bacteria into a superbug. they say even the strongest antibiotics cannot treat this superbug. the gene was originally found in india and pakistan and has now been seen in the u.s. and four other industrialized countries. the spread is linked to tourists who have been in india and pakistan for medical procedures. now to what may be a promising advance in detecting autism. researchers in london have developed a brain scan they say is quicker and more precise. while they say the test can be 90% accurate, skeptics aren t so sure. the bbc s jane hughes reports. reporter: this is the test scientists hope will revolutionize the diagnosis of autism. getting a conventional diagnosis of asperger s syndrome took joe powell years. but these researchers believe a
very first pc. from the abc news vault we now go back to the pc s sixth anniversary in 1987. reporter: it all started six years ago with this, the ibm personal computer, the pc, which combined good design with even better marketing thanks in part to charlie chaplain. with this tool for modern times reporter: it succeeded beyond even ibm s dreams and became the new industry standard. software companies rushed to write programs for it, which in turn created more demand for the computer. ibm has sold more than 6 million of its various pcs. but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and the pc family spawned many imitators. some with familiar japanese names like panasonic, toshiba and epson. others are from american firms like newcomer leading edge. and the familiar radio shack change, goes tandy computers include a full line of ibm copies. and they re still coming.
written from an atheist s perspective. the vampire for me was a perfect metaphor for the way i felt, like a lost soul roaming in the darkness without god. and i poured a lot of my despair and my unhappiness and my grief for my lost faith into those books. reporter: in 1998, she says she experienced a conversion. i knew there were probably things that the church taught that i would find very hard. but at the moment of that conversion, i was really convinced that it would all work out. reporter: for the past 12 years she has lived as a committed catholic. instead of writing about vampires she switched to writing about christ and angels. in fact, her new book about angels called of love and evil comes out this fall. however, she says even though she knew she might struggle with the church s stance on social issues, she wasn t prepared for how frustrated she would become by things like the priest sex