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
joins us now live, congressman king, the would be suicide bomber is actually a double agent. what can you tell us about it and about him? i m in a position, i really can t tell you very much at all. i ve been briefed on this and as far as i know this has not been in any way declassified the cia. this could interfire with operations overseas. i really cannot comment on any of those details. i know it s out there, i know it s being reported and i also was had a briefing this afternoon with top officials and there s a really great concern that this got out. this is my understanding that a major investigation is going to be launched because of this. are there any new details that you can say? i don t believe so, anderson. i late to do this to you, i mean yet i did say to you that i was told and i could say yesterday that the bomber, the alleged bomber was no longer of any concern to us and now i guess a different interpretation can be put on that and everyone was reading in
sensitive situation, so we want to be careful about what we say. some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. the new york times reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect even in a patdown and undoubtedly could have brought down a plane, according to a senior american official. congressman peter king of new york is chairman of the house security committee. again, there s a lot that cannot be discussed. so we re leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king joins us now. congressman king, the would be bomber is actually a double agent. what can you tell us about it and about him? i really can t tell you much at all. i ve been briefed on this, and as far as i know, this hasn t been any way declassified by the cia and the administration. it s really to me unfortunate this has gotten out. this could really interfere with operations overseas. i can t comment o