holt and greg and michael lighter in washington, d.c. appreciate you re weighing in. all right, stick around, later this hour, we re going to look at the science behind that search we just discussed with renoned author. look at this video right here in the united states. evacuating the plane, oh, my god. the plane is on fire. oh, my god. my plane just crashed. you re looking at dramatic moments in philadelphia where passengers had to evacuate a florida bound plane last night after the front tire blew and the plane bounced and skidded down the runway leaving terrified passengers running to escape the smoking plane. this cell phone video captured the dash down the emergency slides and out the window exits. it was carrying 149 people and
much. scary moments at the philadelphia international airport where passengers were forced to evacuate a smoking plane when a tire blue. it slammed down at least twice. the plane finally resting on its nose and passengers rushed from the smoking plane using emergency slides and escaping out window exits on the wings. remarkably due to great work by the pilot who did a great job, there were no injuries. we bounced and came down hard again. i looked out my window and the engine was smoking. i said i don t know about everybody else, i pulled the door and threw it out and got out. [ male announcer ] zzzquil. it s not for colds, it s not for pain, it s just for sleep. because sleep is a beautiful thing™. zzzquil. the non-habit forming sleep aid from the makers of nyquil®. zzzquil. we ve always been] at the forefrontumman, of advanced electronics.
asiana crash in san francisco to check the door pins and the fasteners for the emergency slides. things can just the plane just comes apart in that. two other points. i hear people saying, well, it had to be something big, but isn t that actually a little untrue that a small problem can become a big problem very quickly at that altitude? right. in any accident, it s always is series of things. in tw 800 it was the wiring in the fuel tank. what happens is little things unravel. like in air france, they were losing their airspeed, they weren t paying attention and they had a stall and literally fell out of the sky. a small wiring problem can cause an arcing and an explosion.
want to be. to make matters worse, the aisle in back of them is blocked. the woman right behind us, she was just indicating to my husband the overhead above his head, and he reaches up there and pulls out a pair of crutches. her husband had a broken leg. so he pulled it down. we just thought, oh, no. i turned back, and already the entire plane was almost empty in the front. finally, they managed to reach the emergency slides at the front of the cabin. the slide, it s sort of slippery so you go down really fast. if the plane wasn t on fire, that would have been really, really fun. the carusos are some of the last passengers to get out. seconds later, the plane explodes. whoa! it was loud. it was big. the entire center part of the plane where the caruso family had been only seconds earlier is destroyed. after the first explosion, anybody in the middle of that
bad thing to be close to the over wing exits, but when the wings are what s on fire, then that s really not a place you want to be. to make matters worse, the aisle in back of them is blocked. the woman right behind us, she was just indicating to my husband the overhead above his head, and he reaches up there and pulls out a pair of crutches. her husband had a broken leg. so he pulled it down. we just thought, oh, no. i turned back, and already the entire plane was almost empty in the front. finally, they managed to reach the emergency slides at the front of the cabin. the slide, it s sort of slippery so you go down really fast. if the plane wasn t on fire, that would have been really, really fun. the carusos are some of the last passengers to get out. seconds later, the plane explodes. whoa! it was loud. it was big. the entire center part of the