options of where they can go and what airlines they can fly in the region. so most of the people on board the aircraft are locals who do not have a whole lot of other choices. hey, david. you have said something that has really grabbed my ear. we have no reports of smoke plumes or any social media reports of flames as you suggested, and there haven t been any. how common is it for a plane to disappear so far along into a flight. it was supposed to end, what, in ten minutes, to not have any of those reports and still a plane that s missing? that s a really good question, victor. i did a couple of accidents in which this was the case, and it took us even a couple of days to find the aircraft. one of these aircraft was on close final approach into casper wyomi casper, wyoming. it was on its flight packet and on its way to the airport.
now. it was a different situation because it was snow and winter but similar in that it crashed in the final minutes. you have to understand that still gives a lot. in casper, there s a lot of mountainous terrain on this side of the airport, but it can take a long time. if there s a crash in which there s flames, smoke plumes, that sort of thick, you have other aircraft flying that same pachlkt as they re flying in, they re very aware of a plane flying off the radar. they re informed of that. they re told to keep looking, see if there are any signs. so immediately after that there are airlines flying into airports looking for this thing. at this point to think there was a horrific crash and fire and that sort of thing, it doesn t look that way. i would think by now if that did happen, we would have reports of a fallen aircraft.
of people herald the board the smoke plumes rising up, because then came word from government officials that deadly sodium cyanide had also been detected in this area and there was a lot of concern that anybody who breathed that in could potentially be lethal. that s in addition to all the other dangerous chemicals. that s why you see a lot of people walking around with masks like i m wearing right now. it s just a reality of life for the people here in tianjin for their own safety. there was that second survivor rescued today. that is one piece of good news. it was remarkable to see that so many hours after the blast that a 50-year-old man was able to survive. that s in addition to the 19-year-old firefighter who survived for 31 hours. while he has pretty severe injuries, he is expected to be okay. there s also a mother who gave birth to a babe prematurely during all the explosion and the height of the danger and the blast. but we re told that her baby and the mother are both expected
recognize sodium cyanide, calcium carbide, volatile, organic compounds, possibly compressed natural gas. all of these chemicals were brought into this area. they were stored there and then they were distributed throughout china to the mining industry, to the industrial industry, all of these different all of these different industries had some of their most dangerous chemicals sitting in one place within a very close proximity to people s homes. and now, the firefighters that are on the scene trying to deal with it, they can t use water because contact with water can create an explosive reaction, so they re dumping sand and foam. but there have been some explosions. there is talk in state media that some cars near the site may have exploded. there were several large smoke plumes that were seen rising. there was a report that this sodium cyanide, a cloud of it had been detected, and a wind shift was pushing a lot of this plume the plume had been pushed out over the sea for most of
not having the same global focus in zimbabwe as globally. david mckenzie in zimbabwe for us. in california nearly 10,000 firefighters are battlingtwo dozen raging wildfires in the state. the rocky fire has burned 67,000 acres, more than 27,000 hectares. and at last report it was just 20% contained. as the flames spread thousands are evacuating their home. paul vercannon is there. reporter: the fire pushed by the winds versus self reliant rural people. wills were tested when word came for about 13,000 of them to evacuate as the rocky fire exploded. when you start seeing smoke