vladimir putin was doing, as reports emerge that a plane reportedly carrying yevgeny prigozhin had crashed. putin was holding a ceremony marking a world war ii battle between the soviet union and nazi germany. we re seeing just released data from flight radar 24 that reveals what happened in the plane s moments. the jet, according to the tracking site, levelled off at 28,000 feet, but it he radic climbs and descents in its final minutes. and the plane dropped before transmission stopped. out front now, inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation. mary, thank you so much for bringing your expertise tonight. i want to play, again, that video of the plane that is falling out of the sky. you are an expert on plane crashes. what do you think happened, looking at this video? well, there s so many clues here in the video. first of all, as you mentioned,
according to cal fire s tracking site, these deaths we re talking about are the first of the 2023 firefighting season. are we going to learn more information? can you tell us when we ll learn more information about what happened and about the lives lost? yeah, you know, the lives lost are a story that will continue not only at fire stations around the state, but in memory of the families, and that is something important to remember. in regards to the investigation itself, we re going to look to the experts who are the faa and ntsb to provide us guidance, and we will fully cooperate and support that. as the safety of not only our aviation fleet, but firefighters on the ground is our number one priority. thank you so much for taking time with us today. we re so sorry but you and the entire cal fire community and these families are going through, as you continue to fight fires during such a critical time in
according to the tracking site flight aware that s almost halfway to yesterday s painful total with 2,000 flights canceled. cnn s jason carroll is at laguardia for us in new york and cnn s pete muntean is back at his home base at reagan national airport just outside washington. pete, first to you. what is going on here? yes, weather, but where are we? reporter: we re layer on layer of issues here, kate. here at national airport where the weather here is actually pretty clear, the cancellation board already lighting up a bit. the numbers are accelerating. we ve seen about 1,385 delays so far today, that s gone up about 200 delays in the last hour. 700 plus cancellations. so really today already is only paling in comparison to yesterday. although the day is still pretty young. look at how bad things were last night at laguardia. this is an image from flight
rent 7:45 a.m. bound for phoenix, arizona. that plan interrupted after crewmembers told passengers a flock of geese had flown into the while. you did not have to have a window seat and something is wrong. listen to how the while sounded for those aboard. this was the path the plane took according to tracking site, flight aware. the plane was not even in the air an hour before making an emergency landing back at the airport. here is one of the dispatch calls. large commercial flight with a malfunctioning while in fire shooting on the right side while. is now investigating this prompting memories from 14 years ago when pilate sully sullenberger safely crash landed a commercial flight on the hudson river. once again after a flock of
safely everyone on the flight is okay. here s when the videos being shared across the internet. if you look closely see a boeing 7:30 seven with what appears to be flames coming from one of the engines barely looped the videos you can take a closer look. american airlines flight 1958 took off from columbus, ohio around 7:45 a.m. bound for phoenix, arizona. surely after takeoff birds struck the while. here s a video from a passenger in you can hear just how bad the while sounded on the inside, listen. and this was the path the plane took according to tracking site, flight aware for the plane is not even in the air an hour before making an emergency landing back at the airport but listen to when the dispatch calls. large commercial flight with a malfunctioning while and fire shooting out the right side while progress faa is now