To come . And chaos in the cabin. An airliner hits extreme turbulence. 25 people injured, some seriously and why the pilots never saw it coming today, monday, may 1, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. [ cheers and applause ] good morning, everybody, welcome to today, its a monday morning. We have craig in for matt. Looking at that video, its incredible. If youre one of the people who ignores the pilot who says fasten your seat belts, turbulence is coming. A scary scene in the sky. More than two dozen folks were injured. More on that in just a bit. But first, this terrible shooting. It happened in california. A man suddenly opening fire on guests at a large pool party that was being held at the apartment complex where that man lives. Katie b i overnight developments on this investigation. Katie, good morning. Reporter good morning, savannah. The Birthday Party was being held at an outdoor swimming pool. It
We were tumbling, end over end. There was smoke in the cockpit and i could not communicate with my partner. I knew i had to get out and i was well trained. I was about to eject over Enemy Territory that we had to bombing for a couple of years. There was no other choice and i pulled a handle. Everything worked automatically and perfectly. It blew the canopy and blew me 50 feet in the air. It separated the seats from me, which automatically pulled the dring. It was less than 2. 5 seconds from when i pulled the handle. There was a lot of shooting going on at the ground and they were shooting at our wing man with a nest of guns. There was a good number of militia down there that were protecting a strategic target. A lot of shooting going on. The wonderful training that i had in the air force and the military, they do a great job of training, i was unfazed by the fact that i was in Enemy Territory and i had bullets going by my parachute. What was on my mind was even eating capture. There wa
The wing man. I said that i was on the ground and i was 200 meters north of the river. Star strafing at 300 and i am heading south. After the war, i met with the pilots in the plane. They said to not strafe because they did not think they could should that accurately. It was a good call because they were all around me. Within two minutes, i was captured. How may times have you flown over North Vietnam . 53. What was the purpose of the flights . We were in the northern part of vietnam, 70 miles north of the dmz and had been flying all types of missions. By the time i got there, in the summer of 1967, they had changed our mission to only fly on reconnaissance over the southern part of North Vietnam. We were flying the ho chi minh trail and the main highways. We were flying the riverway to stop the trucks that were hauling supplies to the viet kong. How old were you . I was 23 and turned 24. I had flown with areas people and some new guys with the squadron to check them out. That day, i w
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