i m told this is a large boeing aircraft. the numbers at this point are 142 onboard, plus two pilots and four flight attendants. 142 passengers would be an average configuration for an a320. the a320 is actually built in france by airbus industries. and so 142 would be normal and a crew of 6 would also be normal. this is an average size a320. do you know anything about the location of the crash at this point? we have reports that firefighters are on the way to the scene, but we don t know exactly where that scene is yet. the only thing i have indications through some sources that i have not independently verified is this is about 30 miles southeast of marse, france. that s the only information i ve been able to glean so far. what do you know about the
one hostage and two soldiers die in the raid. all 14 rebels are killed. the military rejoices when the saga is finally over. december 26th, 1994, marse, france. a french pair a military unit storms a hijacked airliner on the runway. inside are 170 passengers and crew and four algerian terrorists who have rigged the plane with dynamite. the commandos dressed in black use a passenger boarding stair ramp to reach the cabin door. they try to open it, but the stairs are too high and block tl door. the commandos finally pry it open. they enter into a hail of gunfire as the terrorists, who are all in the front of the aircraft, unload their weapons. flashes are seen through the cockpit window. no one knows if the terrorists
the last marches mission plan for quite some time. it will be a pretty technologically sophisticated thing to get the lander on the ground on the martial surface. explain what they will do. very. it weighs the ton, size after mini-cooper. so they will lower it with rockets suspending the rover from a harness and as the rover touches gently down the rocket system will cut the at the time they ares and fly away. it is called a sky crane. never been flight tested because we don t have marse. nasa is putting 2 1/2 billion dollars in faith on this system. they have done a lot of component testing. but the real proof will be on august 5th. jon: derek, if they can get this thing onto the surface of mars safely and effectively and the thing actually works, it is nuclear powered as i understand it, what do they hope to learn? what they re really looking for are environments
at nearly 260 miles per hour. we re told folks will be able to make 125-mile trip in 45 minutes. france, nationwide strikes over austerity measures now losing steam after disrupting the country s economy for weeks. but as you can see, many oil tankers still stuck in the mediterranean off the coast of marse. still blocking oil refineries in the city. chile. rescued miners trapped underground for 69 days playing a soccer match in santiago. the member in white taking the field against a team made up of rescuers, the country s president and other officials. the president s team won 3-2. gaza, smugglers now moving cows from egypt through their tunnels. we re told they are needed to celebrate an upcoming muslim festival, an israeli military