and 8 o clock los angeles. this is fox news at night. he won t debate during the primaries but took the stage in iowa at a fox news town hall that came on the heels of christie suspending his campaign for president but won t support any of the remaining candidates of the wait until you hear what he said about nikki haley and ron desantis caught on a hot mic. the latest from the very cold campaign trail. we will get to the drama in a second. headlines from the former president s town hall on fox news. he said that he is not worried at all that nikki haley might close the gap with him this new hampshire now that chris christie dropped out of the race. he said this does not change the dynamic at all. watch this. we are leading by almost 60 points. i am not exactly worried about it. i understand new hampshire well. i won it twice and did very well. i love the people and they love me. he said the bigger news out of tonight was that chris christie got caught on a hot mic diss
and how fast it is going and the temperatures. that s mainly what the cockpit voice recorderer tells you what the pilots were talking about. i would assure you in this particular incident, i don t think the cockpit had anything to do with it. i think structurally there was a problem. the pilots did a good job getting back on the ground. trace: how long do you think the investigation will take? how long will these planes be grounded? well, they will be grounded that s why we can t second guess the ntsb. they are excellent and will understand. what impact on that if they find an answer as to why it occurred. if they find that answer, then the planes will be back up flying quicker. they will keep them grounded as long as they can make it safe.
cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean with the latest details. reporter: the hard work of investigating what went wrong is only beginning. investigators from the national transportation safety board are documenting the wreckage of not one but two planes involved in this midair collision. both part of volunteer organizations that keep world war ii planes flying. the larger airplane, a b-17 flying fortress, famous for the daylight bombing raids over europe. the other airplane, an extremely rare p-63 king cobra single-seat fighter plane. in both cases, only a handful of examples flying worldwide. airplanes like this do not have a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorderer, so investigators now say they ll listen to the recordings of radio traffic that took place during the air show. they re also asking for witnesses to come forward with photos and video, more examples of that horrific scene keep getting posted online by spectators. thankfully, nobody in the crowd
were at idle and air speed was slowed below the target air speed. the throttles are advanced a few seconds prior to impact and the engines appear to respond normally. again, i have just given you a brief summary of what our team found today as theaditioned. first the cockpit voice recorderer. i am going to talk to you a little bit about the 777 and give you basic facts about the aircraft. this was an asiana 777. the tail number was hl 7742. as far as manufacturing it was line number 553 off the line.