bin oculars. i looked in the trail head parking lot and spotted a sheriff s deputy s pickup and nate standing there and they were looking back at us. after his long-interrupted trip down the mountain to get help, josh s buddy nate had made it. i told her, i said, we ll be all right, right there s help. then she got really motional again and started to cry? yeah. i think it was tears of relief. and nate watching them had trouble understanding what he was seeing. this young girl was the pilot? i couldn t believe it. most people her age don t even drive yet, i mean let alone fly a plane. the sheriff brought mackenzie down to an ambulance that hadn t been able to make it up the mountain. as soon as there was cell service the sheriff called mackenzie s parents, steve and christie, stick with worry at home. thank goodness for that call. he said, we found your
i didn t want to admit, this is real. reporter: but it was. no time for second guessing. i said, is my airplane here? i ll be off the ground in 15 minutes. i ll be looking for her. reporter: she climbed into her plane. taxied to the gas pump for fuel. the manager hurried over. and he said we can t give you fuel. we are not allowing anyone to buy fuel right now. we need it for our operations. reporter: they were running low, said the manager. they had their own charter, and fire fighting operation to fuel. what did you say? i looked him square in the eye and i said, i need fuel, and right now i d kill you for fuel. my girl is down. i will have fuel. and he got a big look on his face and he said, give her all the fuel she wants. just give her the fuel.
accident around the area and more trouble could be in store today with each more snow expected during the morning drive back to work, that is if you ever got home. let s head to madison, wisconsin, the snow is blamed for a plane slide off a taxiway. a delta jet arriving from minneapolis. passengers say it landed just fine and taxied toward the terminal and just slid. a traumatic stop. you skidded off and stopped. you had to realize wait a second we are are not on the runway any more. erie, pennsylvania, along the great lakes even more snow is falling. nearly a foot fell in erie in just 24 hours and there is more forecast for today. erie has had more than 40 inches of snow so far this season. that lake effect is serious stuff. you see the snow on top of the minivan? you re not supposed to do that. if you re going for a drive after a snowstorm, clean off the
president obama today paid tribute to america s war dead, laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns, he then spoke at the vietnam veteran s memorial on the 50th anniversary of their bloody conflict. and milt romney led a tribute at the veteran s memorial center in san diego. it was a somber break from the election campaign, but politics has a way of seeping into one of the most somber occasions, dan lothian is standing by, but first let s go to cnn s dana bash. and a slight political undertone to the ceremonies there in san diego. they were putting wreaths out at these ceremonies, but at the same time both men gave some speeches that might have had some politics mixed in there as well. from mitt romney, the lines that you re so familiar with, following him around, the ones really directly following the president. but you didn t have to read too much between the lines to hear his campaign pitch. reporter: a solemn moment in san diego, marking memorial day. reporter:
want to begin with this afternoon s scary situation on board this air liner and i am sure it was equally frightening for drivers on the ground who say parts of the plane were hitting cars. we can tell you the jet landed safely. i want to bring in lizzie o leary, our aviation spore kond ent. what do we know? what happened? we can take it from sort of two sides. what was happening on the ground, those parts of the plane, potentially the debris field and what was happening in the air. there you see pictures from our affiliate cb-24 in canada, pieces of did he pree they say fell from the ski. the blackberry is to i have give you a sense of comparison. now, switching over to what we know from the air side, we are talking about an air canada plane, a boeing triple 7, a twin engine plane, a large pass engineer judget that left toronto at around 2:10 this afternoon carrying 318 passengers and 16 crew members according to air canada. after take off there was an engine shutdown. this