finally tonight here, america strong. the pilot trying to make an emergency landing, and the calm voice that guided her through it. here s abc s david kerley. reporter: veteran pilot, cathy lewan, met mason braddock on the radio. the throttle on her small plane, damaged and stuck. basically no way to slow down above atlanta s hartsfield airport, the country s busiest, and then help. i could hear that she was very distressed. all we re gonna do different is just cut power right before we touch down. it s gonna be fine. reporter: for 50 minutes, mason talked cathy down. we ll have equipment standing by to help you on the runway. can i ask one more favor? would you call my husband for me? when you are faced with death. in a moment, you don t know how it feels. and if you could ask him to put a prayer chain out to my
those on board say they didn t realize at first the danger they were in. there is just this tremendous explosion from behind. and i thought, well, since i m still alive it must just be that a tire exploded. they sent, i m not sure if it was the co-pilot or somebody else. i thought i saw him come from the cockpit but he went back. he came running back, yes the plane s on fire were gets off. stand on top of that chute and i could see the flames and smoke and stuff. you are thinking engines and gasoline and that could go up at any time so i was just trying to get away. the captain credited with a textbook response was a veteran pilot who had flown with the airline for 42 years. debra is president and ceo of the national safety council and joins us live. god to have you on again. let s talk about the main
hawaii. the experimental plane attempting to fly around the world. powered by the sun. in a holding pattern, in japan. after taking off from china sunday. the journey to hawaii expected to take 130 hours. the plane s toughest leg yet. just listening to it the plane seems to sing as it flies. in the cockpit, you have the veteran pilot, andre borschberg. earlier he told cnn huh he is coping so far. i tried not to thing of 130 hours. but simply about the present moment. what do we do next? how we get organized? so i really focused last night to see how, how i could sleep, let the airplane fly by itself. how i could trust what the airplane was doing. in the cockpit you hear a lot of noise. you feel what the, the how the airplane flies. and in some ways it was
information, like the afghan war plan and identities of covert operation with his mistress while she was writing his biography. prosecutors will recommend two years probation and $40,000 fine. and it is called the day the music died february 3rd 1959 when rock and roll legend buddy holly, richie vallens and the big bopper were killed with a pilot when their single engine plane crashed minutes after take off in a small town in iowa. an investigation blamed it on weather and pilot error. a veteran pilot convinced them to reopen the investigation. he contends there are issues with weight and balance. the climb and descent factors the ntsb should investigate. there s new fallout over offensive, sexually threatening comments posted to social media
and we have new details about the captain of the missing flight. a veteran pilot whose final communication with air traffic control is a crucial lead in the search. joe johns is outfront. reporter: as is common in indonesia, he is known by only one name. pictures on facebook confirm at least one of his own hobbies. he was a fan of motorcycles. reports suggest he is a member of a motorcycle club. his daughter posted a picture of him on social media saying dad, please come home. i still need you. the family had recently suffered a loss. the captain s younger brother died of diabetes days ago. his father told the bbc, i want my son to come back alive. he was a veteran of the skies with more than 20,000 flying hours, of which 6,100 hours were with airasia on the air bus 320 biffle comparison slightly more flying time than the pilot sullenburger who executed an