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Says that all international flights headed for the united states are being diverted to canada. this at a time when jim miklaszewski tells us there is an unconfirmed report there is another hijacking. all take offs were stopped but there were planes in the air, obviously, at the same of the first two attacks of the twin trade hours to then the pentagon. let s look at the pictures of the world trade center. the other tower of the world trade center has just collapsed. you are looking at live pictures of the second twin tower at the world trade center collapsing as a result of the crash of an airplane into its side. that, i believe, is the first tower struck this morning at 8:42 eastern time. and it is now fallen to the ground. the profile of manhattan has been changed. there is a declaration of war by terrorists on the united states. steel, concrete there it is. ....
Both his papers are professional balloonists and have been training him closely and he has been practicing take offs and landings all week and is very excited. new mexico is home of the hot air balloon festival each year and now rick knows all about that. that is a different kind of balloon boy. a real balloon boy. a real guy. the real deal. we will see if there is a reality show. you can see the line right there, that is the dividing line of the hot and cooler temperatures and as that sags we will see severe weather firing across the ohio valley and to nebraska and we have been talking about flooding across the mississippi with more flooding happening out west with areas of montana seeing record-breaking snow and a lot of rain and we will deal with extreme flooding and a lot of the moisture drains back in to the mississippi so we will see a repeat of flooding there and take a look at video from south dakota. ....
The scenarios and training? that s correct. we want our students to be fully prepared. reporter: for these soon-to-be graduates it s taken four years working in classrooms and state-of-the-art simulators not to mention $120,000 tuition to get this war. miranda has learned take-offs and landings to flights cross current. what about the stress. that s the first thing everybody says. what job isn t stressful? reporter: like a number of students, he wanted to be a pilot. do you make mistakes? plenty of times. reporter: do you learn from the mistakes. definitely. if i made the same mistake in the field, i d lose my job and be responsible for anybody that happened to get hurt. it s definitely serious. reporter: i asked miranda if all the recent scrutiny on air traffic controllers had her rethinking her career choice. ....
Weeks, air traffic controllers will be able to fly in a cockpit to see exactly how their communications impact a working flight crew, particularly during take-offs and landings. it is so valuable for air traffic controllers to see at that critical point of flight that teamwork that s happening and why we really shouldn t give them a different instruction that they re not expecting. reporter: he did the cockpit familiarization training before 9/11. after the terror attacks the program was suspended because cockpit security became a pair amount concern. as a result, one-third of the nation s 15,000 controllers have never had the cockpit experience. the transportation security administration as now given the green light to its revival and the head of the federal aviation administration is embracing it. i was a professional airline pilot myself and had controllers on board. it s a two-way dialogue and helps both parties understand ....
reporter: the faa is ordering special safety inspections for fatigue damage on some 175 boeing 737s worldwide. 80 of them are registered in the u.s. we can t allow planes to be blowing holes in the roof while people are at 30,000 feet. we just can t. reporter: age and wear from repeated take-offs and landings can cause metal fatigue. mechanics look visually or use specialized technology which sends an electrical current through the metal to detect problems. not cracks but smoke in the cockpit forced the united plane to make an emergency landing in new orleans. 497 we re declaring an emergency. we ve lost all our instruments right now. reporter: just 20 minutes after take-off, the aircraft developed electrical problems and returned to the airport. all 106 people aboard got off safely using emergency chutes. the ntsb dispatched a team to investigate. larry jacobs, abc news. unbelievable and very scary. the white house is giving up ....