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Jumbo jet from fedex on its back wheels. sitting up like that because of the wind. witnesses call 911 after seeing a 9-year-old girl driving her father around in his van. all right. and it was all caught on tape. todays natalie morales has the details for us. >> reporter: at first glance it doesnt look like anything out of the ordinary. a van at a gas station in the middle of the night. but take a look at the driver when she steps out of the vehicle -- shes a child, only four feet tall. inside...

Well stay on the landing there. you can see a textbook landing the way the pilots trained in case of an energy, and he was able to set it down on the two back wheels, feather the engines to slow everything down, cut the power to the props so thered be less damage to the aircraft, and then when the nose collapsed there, set it down, and you can see now the two men in the green uniforms there, thats the pilot and co-pilot being congratulated, yeah, being congratulated there by the fire guys for do...

Only its back wheels. look at this. look closely here. the planes nose never touches down in the landing. thats because the front landing gear failed. when the pilot finally does lower the nose to the runway, fire crews spray the plane just to be safe. thanks to that pilots nerves of steel, no one was hurt. >> that is some good driving. >> yeah. >> id like to be on that pilots plane. >> 12 minutes after the top of the hour. >> still ahead, more on the story. this fort hood shooting a painful rem...