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Right out of their backdoor, right into their hangar, throw the bags in, and take off. >> and those backyard driveways, well, they back up to a 4,000-foot lighted runway that sits in the middle of the community. >> many private aeronautical communities are still grass runway. they dont allow the type of aircraft that we are able to land here. >> most of the other aero communities are in desolate areas. its not where youre in the middle of what we have here. >> many of them are one strip, often g...

Graduate hannah lucha. >> it was may 11, 2012. it was an ordinary day just like any other day. we were headed from tulsa, oklahoma, to counsel bluffs, iowa. >> theyre heading to a teen mania ministries event organized by her evangelicalist father ron. the friends could drive which would take them about 6 1/2 hours. but one of them knows a licensed pilot who offers to fly them which would only take about two hours. at 3:45 p.m. the red, white, and blue cessna 401 tail number n9dm takes off from t...

>> one of the things we love about here is just the ability to go anywhere. i can grab one of my kids and head to orlando and go to the parks. >> dont have to stop at an airport and check luggage. >> theres no security lines at the airport. theres no getting in your car and showing up two hours early. you just get in your plane and you go. >> walk out the backdoor, go flying, and were in the bahamas 45 minutes later. its fantastic. >> you leave out of your house, and youre there, from your house...

♪ >> when deciding where to live, many people want to be close to an airport. but what if your house is your airport? i want to take you inside of an neighborhood that is truly unique. >> the wellington aero club was designed from development in the late 70s to be an aeronautical community. >> located in the village of wellington, florida, and it is a private air-park community. the residents have planes in their garages, in their backyards, in their driveways. >> they may have a helicopter. t...

Had a few hundred hours more than the minimum 35 hours of flight time needed to get a pilots license. he was also still training to fly using instruments only. but he was more than capable of flying his cessna 182 solo. >> i felt he was a very good pilot, and he wants to go. >> when hussein decided to upgrade to a twin-engine aircraft john seized the opportunity to buy his new acquaintances piper saratoga. >> saratoga was really a very good step for him. but one thing i really told him, i said, ...

Would be highly unlikely. >> when i knew that im selling the plane to john jr. i really made sure i did all the inspection before i give it to him. that plane was almost a brand new plane. and was in a very good condition. so i knew that its not a plane, its pilot error. >> investigators come to the same conclusion. after the wreckage of the saratoga is salvaged and carefully examined, its clear the plane was fully functional prior to impact. this suggests to investigators that as the pilot in c...

To die. >> ntsb investigators quickly cher row in on what caused the crash. two weeks before the accident the same pilot got an overheat warning in the same plane. the heater shut down without incident that time. logbooks show the heater was inoperative during the planes most recent annual inspection. probable cause, the malfunction of the cabin heater which resulted in an inflight fire and smoke in the airplane. thats the same thing that led to the 1985 crash of a dc-3 which killed sing eric ri...

♪ >> when deciding where to live, many people want to be close to an airport. but what if your house deciding where to live many people want to live close to an airport. what is if your house is your airport. i want to take youen side a neighborhood that is truly unique. >> the air club was designed from development in the late 70s to be an aeronautical community. >> located in welllington, florida, a private air park community. the residents have planes in their garages, in their backyard, ...

If you ask people in welllington some of them dont even know the aeroclub is here. >> one of the things that we love about here is we can go anywhere. i can grab one of my peeps and go to orlando, go to one of the parks. dont have to stop at the airport and check lug again. >> no security line at the airport. no getting in your car and showing up two hours early. you just get in your plane and you go. >> walk out the back door and fly, go to the bahamas, 45 minutes. fantastic. >> security means ...

Controlled air space surrounding lax, los angeles international airport. >> when flying in uncontrolled air space, you dont necessarily have to talk to an air traffic controller, you dont necessarily have to have a transponder. but if youre going to operate anywhere in controlled air space, you have to have permission to operate in that air space. you cant just fly into it without permission. >> the dc-9 crew believed they were in protected air space, and they were. but unbeknownst to them, the ...