airline plane from atlanta landing and skidding off the runway at laguardia airport, all of the passengers, all 125 passengers and five crew members taken safely off the plane exiting by the slides, the emergency slides. we ll be right back.
chairman of the f.c.c. the f.c.c. expects to face lawsuits from major cable providers that could last for years. refuse to reboard that airplane. terrifying moments when an airasia planeloaded with passengers has engine trouble on the runway. witnesses hearing a large bang, one of the engines shutting down as the jet taxied at the airport in indonesia. this is the latest in a series of problems for that airline. one involving that crash that killed 162 people last week. a few days ago another airasia jet overshot the runway in the philippines forcing everyone to evacuate on emergency slides. proof of big foot? a fisherman in florida snapping this picture in a swamp near tampa. he says the creature he saw was an animal, not a person
central philippines. you can see here the emergency slides were deployed and a passenger telling nbc news, it was an uneventful flight until the turbulence nearing descend. fortunately nobody was hurt. at the time the region was being slammed by a tropical storm bringing flash floods and killing on the ground more than 30 people. cnn aviation analyst miles o brien is outfront. so not only the pilots were dealing with bad weather, but tell us about the airport and the conditions there when the other accident happened? well without getting too deep into aviation jim, this particular approach is called a nonprecision approach meaning it is not the precise tunnel in the sky that the instrument landing system is. and as a result they had to fly and step themselves down through the clouds in sort of a steep fashion. so they were up against a steeper approach already, just
guard has crews and men in harnesses and orange jumpsuits retrieveing bodies. reporter: that s right, christine. the news started to trickle through. the first pictures we saw were what looked like life jackets. then pictures of emergency slides and emergency doors and pictures of the bodies circulating as well. tragic end. perhaps, though, not an unsurprising end. this is the site of the debris is six kilometers from where the plane had last contact with the ground control. the pilots requested to climb around the storm. it all fitted together. we started to get reports in and by the early afternoon, we had confirmation from the authorities here. as you say, the head of search
they re going to be looking at the pressurization of the unit that inflates the slide. they re going to be looking at the mounting brackets, everything that goes into how this slide is put into the airplane. the faa says there was an issue with the plane s door and they re investigating. we have highly pressurized gases, they re inflating something at a very rapid rate. this slide takes up an awful lot of room. if it deploys at the wrong place on a landing, could block an exit. which would be critical to a passenger evacuation. it s happened before, last november, a slide deployed on a jet blue plane, hitting a flight attendant to the wall. that incident is still under investigation. in a proactive move, they decided to replace the emergency slides on their fleet with a new design. when the new design is