general keane i m not sure if you can see this. we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balance has been taken down. that is great. it is falling from the sky. reporter: air force f-22 fighter jet shot down the fighter plane that floated down across the u.s. last week. shortly after president biden claimed he wanted to shoot down the balloon earlier was overruled. president biden: on wednesday i briefed on the balloon i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible without doing damage to anyone on the ground. they decided to do that when it got over water, within the 12-mile limit. reporter: the 12-mile limit biden mentioned that the coastal states right to claim 12 miles of nautical ocean as their territory. closing the airspace around the balloon, closing air traffic from wilmington, myrtle beach and charleston airport while the balloon was shot down. militariliry official said it was the first chancer to target over the balloon while f
honest. he is potentially compromised by many of the business deals his family made with the chinese communists government? the great point, rachel. when i look at it, we should not have hesitated, when you look at it. this reminds me of kind of that mindset that our country had pre-9/11. we were not appreciating the threat that al qaeda represented to our nation and i think today we do not appreciate the threat that china represents to our national security. they are not a competitor. by their actions they are in fact taking decisive measures making them more of an enemy of the united states than an actual competitor. certaintily not someone we can cooperate and work with. they violate international law in the south china sea. they violate the airspace with this balloon. they violate, steal our property appreciate across the board. face it they killed over 100,000 americans getting fentanyl
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