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Turned out it spent one nano second upside down. but what people remember when they so something that horriveec. fire, smash and aircraft wobbly and holy cow. and that s why first reports are never as good or bad as they come in. that is an important point to make. what you are looking is a live shot from san francisco international where we have sewn the flights come in to the airport and landing. yet to see any take offs and two-run ways were reopened out of 4 and 2 are still shut down and clearly where the accident happen and that would be runway 2, 8, l. captain nash, i want to ask you about this. you are talking about the reports the plane coming in and the fire chief mentioned this. ....
Luxor, egypt. i would imagine that the most difficult time is when you take off and when you land. so when you land what possibly could go wrong that would result in this. clive? well, i think it s the same as any aviation take offs and landings are the critical element of it and great care is taken on both of those particular parts of the flight. i think one of the most dangerous things for a hot air balloon in the landing phase is power line strikes and i don t know whether this is the cause of that. that would just be speculation, but that is one of the things that can cause problems. bill: how often is it that we see a problem like this? well it s very rare that we have fatalities on who the air balloons. they are incredibly well engineered. they are designed to a very high spec and equipment failure is a very rare thing. i think like a lot of aviation things many of these instances, not just hot air balloons are generally down to a pilot error but not just one thing, an ....
i am sorry. there is no confirmation of this latest threat. security officials here are taking this very seriously. we were standing with secretary rumsfeld s security detail who as soon as they got the report went running into the building and we were herded away. they have set up an alternative command site somewhere in the area. the pentagon has set up a crisis team to deal with this situation. so far the latest reports are that another plane of some kind may have been hijacked and headed in this direction. we also should tell you, mick, this is tom brokaw, the faa says that now all international flights headed for the united states are being diverted to canada, this at a time when jim is telling us there is an unconfirmed report there is another hi-jacking. all take offs were stop and there were planes in the air obviously of the first two attacks in the twin trade towers and the pentagon. andrea mitchell is standing ....
This point. we ought to remind everyone once again this is an exceptional development. the faa has banned all take offs at all airports across america. this country in terms of air travel has been immobilized. the most powerful center of the world has been immobilized as well. that s a haunting description bob kerr just gave of the low-flying aircraft near the white house and one can only wonder if that was ultimately we just saw a live picture of what seemed to be a portion of the building falling away from the world trade center. if we can rerack that to about 20 seconds ago you will see something dramatic happening and i don t know whether it is another explosion or a portion of the building falling away, but something major just happened at that building. we have the tape. watch what happens in the left-hand tower. ....
Its way from boston to los angeles was hijacked? midair. they are now citing transmissiones from the plane so they have hard evidence of that, then brought down here and made to fly into the twin trade towers. did one of the hijackers get control? did they shoot the pilot? it boggles the mind beyond our ability to figure out what was going on. you talk about transmissions. i was just curious have you had any evidence of what was said during the they are just saying they are citing transmission to know that plane had been hijacked. that s all they are saying at this point. we ought to remind everyone once again, this is an exceptional development. the faa banned all take offs at all airports across america. this country has been immobilized. a good portion of the nation s cap doll the most powerful center of the world, has been immobilized as well. we just saw a live picture of what seemed to be a portion of the building falling away from the world trade center. if we can rerack ....