NASA’s X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. This series of images was taken at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. This installation allows the team to continue final wiring and system checkouts on the aircraft as it pre
[mayhem] you always drive like an old lady? [tina] you re an old lady. for a tv news repter: grounded in los angeles, a helicopter with the hole ripped in its tail assembly the faa says the chopper was when thet 1100 f crew heard a loud bang. didn t know what it was and we assumed it was a bird when we got on the ground, it was a different story. reporter: had the suspected drone taken out the rotor, the chopper could have crashed. the l.a. pd tweeted: this could have been a disaster there are 1.5 million registered drones required to stay below 400 feet and at least five miles from an airport. yet, nearly 1200 aircraft report a drone sighting in
back in washington. they flew them there overnight. they re going to be looking and analyzing the data in there, the performance of the plane, listen to the cockpit conversations, to what the pilots were saying when this all was happening. essentially trying to find out what happened, why this plane came in essentially too slow, too low, the tail hitting the seawall separating the san francisco bay from the airport and the runway and then slamming on to the runway and skidding down and lost the tail assembly, it lost landing gear before skidding off the runway. we also know this morning that the two victims, the two people killed in this crash are 16-year-old girls from china. they were part of one of two school groups from chinese middle schools who were coming here for summer camp which included visits to some of the college campuses here in the
onto the runway and skidding down and lost the tail assembly, it lost landing gear before skidding off the runway. we also know this morning that the two victims, the two people killed in this crash are 16-year-old girls from china. they were part of one of two school groups from chinese middle schools who were coming here for summer camp, which included visits to some of the college campuses here in the northern california area. meanwhile, more than about four dozen passengers are still in the hospital with injuries to varying degrees. we know at least five of them are in critical condition, one of them an infant. ed? john yang reporting from san francisco here on the ed show. thanks so much. stick around. we ll have more from the essence festival after this. you re watching the ed show on msnbc. [ cheers and applause ] mine was earned in djibouti, africa. 2004.
of black hawk. experts have seen these photos say the helicopter s tail assembly is different from known helicopter types, and they say that could indicate new radar avoidance capability. much more on this later in the program. and what pakistan may be doing with those helicopter parts and that new information. there are also a number of other pictures that were that reuters got from the same is official that are too graphic to show you. they show too men lying dead in large pools of dead, presumably the other men who were killed that day in addition to bin laden. although their identities have not been confirmed. i m sure you ll be able to see the pictureses elsewhere if you want. today, president obama deciding those photos will not be released. in an interview, steve croft asked the president about his