emergency. >> oh, we were in climb and had just gone through a cloud layer and you'll hear the whole tape, at the beginning you hear joe the pilot trying to call miami center. he just runs out of air. and i don't specifically remember hearing that because i'm just kind of looking out the window, you know, we hadn't been off the ground five minutes but i either heard that or i heard when nate, the first controller, tried to get ahold of us a couple times. something didn't sound right. but whatever it was, made me look directly at joe. >> you were in a twin engine king air. were you in the back as a passenger or were you right seating this aircraft? >> i was in the right front seat beside the pilot. >> okay. lisa grimm, this is a real story about team work with air traffic controllers acting quickly to avert a disaster. how did you handle this? what happened? >> well, there was quite a lot of controllers in the