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Screws loose, i guess, never really knew it till now. you think about landing this successfully, theyve theyll give me a job as a pilot? >> i think they will give you a job doing anything if you could pull this off. >> yeah, right. hey, guy, could can this thing to do a back flip you think? think i could do a barrel role and if that goes good ill just go nose down and call it a night? >> lets try to land that airplane safely and not hurt anybody on the ground. >> all right. damn it, i dont know,...

Republican there -- im from the buffalo area. the erie county controller, a pretty popular republican there, hes already announced hes going to seek the seat, so there is already republican plans to make this process go forward. but its not going to be easy. lets talk about the legal aspect of all of this. collins facing extensive insider trading charges. up to 150 years in prison if convicted. what do we know about this place and in particular his familys role in all of this? >> it seems like a...

Flying this plane is chilling. and you can certainly understand the measured reaction with the control tower there just trying to encourage him to land this plane. what do you make of it? >> well, natalie, i certainly agree this controller almost sounds like a hostage negotiator, like an fbi trained hostage negotiator. he is talking to the guy, trying to calm him down, trying to get him to land. at one point he talks about landing at a military base there. he was only like a mile away at that ti...

His stocks logical reports and also the interviews with the co-worker, the best defense against any of this is random drug testing, which they are subject to. mechanics do have to go through unannounced random tests. they dont do it very often, so you know, it may have been between tests. thats why defense against it. the other thing is what they call employee assistance programs whether other co-workers are taught to look for abberant behavior whether its a pilot, a driver, a controller or whoe...

Tell the guy how to possibly land the plane, maybe a location where he can land that plane the entire time just trying to get him to bring that plane down in a safe manner. arthel? arthel: that controller was really really grace under fire, for sure. again, jeff, everybody is asking how was he able to pull this off? >> yeah, that is the main question. this is a huge airport in the seattle area here in washington. and authorities telling us that this is till very early on in the investigation. we...

I mean, suddenly theres an unauthorized plane taking off. you have dozens of other commercial airline planes in the area, in the air there, on the tarm tarmac, how crazy might had it been in the airport control tower? >> i bet it was pretty interesting with one controller -- of course later in the evening theres not quite as many people up there as there are in the day shift. im sure one of them looked over and said did you forget to tell me about this fellow thats taking off on some particular ...

The plane was a horizon air turboprop, subsidiary of alaska airlines, they stop plane being followed by military aircraft near the airport. operations were shut down for a short time before returning to know. the pure is county sheriff says the plane was stolen by a 20 menu met ground service agent who crashed while doing stunts, he told air traffic controllers he was a broken guy and joked about whether the airline would hire him if you landed safely. he said a lot of people care about him and ...

The man whose name is not been released told air traffic controllers while he was flying that he was a broken guy and joked about whether the airline would hire him if he landed safely. you can see the plane up in the air. the controller asked him to land as a nearby military airfield but said he was worried they would rough him up if he tried to land and said to the controller, quote, this is probably jail time for life. the plane crashed in puget sound 25 miles from the airport. the coast guar...

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