by the maintenance personnel, 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
vests. now incurring major obstacles in order to recover them. 185 bodies have been recovered. 117, mostly teenagers, are still missing. investigators are looking at a sister ship owned by the same company as the ferry to get an idea how it may have been operating. they found multiple safety concerns. 40 of its life rafts weren t working, emergency slides were inoperable and equipment to tie down cargo either was nonexistent or didn t work very well. four more crew members were issued arrest warrants today. 15 of the 20 who survived crew members have now been charged. we turn now to nevada where a fight over federal grazing fees is being overshadowed by racist remarks from the rancher center of the dispute. some of the right initially had some sympathy to the man who grazed his cattle on federal
20 pounds, so it s down at the bottom if it s gone into the water there. the color that they re really looking for is the color yellow, because the color yellow would be the emergency slides, the life preservers, the jackets that would be there. those are the colors that they think that they would see out there and so far they haven t seen that. this listening device, as i was reading the research on it, you very aptly described that it does get dragged behind a boat slowly. but doesn t it have to be within about a mile of the actual black box to pick up reliably those sounds? if you had perfect conditions, 12,000 feet is about the region that this pinger could potentially pick up or the detector could pick up the pings. but those are perfect conditions. and let me just give you some variables. aside from the fact that the battery may be losing some of its power. when you get to two miles deep there, you have cold water. and cold water can impact the
wall street journal reporter who broke that news a little later on in the program, find out what else he has learned today. captain nash, jeff lanza, thank you so much. pleasure. another another frightening airline incident, this one in philadelphia. over 10050 passengers forced from a us airways jetliner last night 150, using emergency slides. there you see in that picture, when a tire blew out during takeoff. investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong. one woman s daughter on board the plane heading to a wedding. take a listen. she phoned my husband first of all and said that the plane crashed and he was very upset. and then he lost her. and he didn t know whether she was safe or not. and then, he got back in touch with her and he knew that she was safely out of the plane. jamie colby following this story with the latest developments in our newsroom. jamie. fortunately, gregg, this has a happy ending for the us air
the takeoff as the jet skid off the runway. passengers got off on emergency slides. 154 people were on there and thankfully nobody got hurt. we re live in the newsroom. we re so lucky there weren t more injuries. i can t tell you more because the ntsb takes time with these investigations but they re monitoring it. for those passengers, you have to wonder how different the outcome might have been if it all happened on left-hand sid sid- landing instead of takeoff. 400-yard airplane from away from the airplane and we used our vehicles to surround the group, safely corral the passengers to protect them from the wind. getting away from the aircraft quickly was key because there was fire growing on and they were aided by a grew of