Fire. Lots out really neat stories. World news tonight with david muir is coming up next. Im kristen sze. Im tonight, inside the jet crash. The new images now emerging this evening from the cabin of that Passenger Jet. Dozens killed. An american among the victims. The horror inside the cabin and the moment Authorities Say the jet hit the ground, the landing gear collapsing, igniting that trail of fire. Also tonight, the new video from the other passenger scare here in the u. S. The jet going off the runway into the water. The passengers, many of whom climbed out onto the wing to survive. Why did the Pilot Switch Runways at the last minute . The crush of cameras here in New York City today as president trps foixer, mil cohen, leaves his apartment and heads to federal prison. His vow before the cameras. Tonight, the u. S. Deploying a Carrier Strike group. They say it is a show of force against iran, after what the u. S. Says are threats against
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Good one. World news with david muir is next. We appreciate your time. Tonight, Breaking News as we come on the air. A friday dow freefall triggered by President Trumps tweet on his trade war. The president saying he, quote, hereby orders American Companies not to do business with china. And now hes calling the fed chair an enemy. Also developing, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and her new Cancer Battle revealed. Undergoing radiation for a tumor on her pancreas. What it could mean for the future of the court. The triple Weather Threat tonight from coast to coast. Powerful thunderstorms in the east. A swimmer struck by lightning. In the west, urgent wildfire evacuations. And now a tropical system moving near florida. Rob marciano standing by. Crisis in the cabin. A Passenger Plane filling up with smoke over the pacific. The pilot declaring an Emergency Landing. Passengers escaping on emergency
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emergency slides and the fire eventually caused the plane to completely collapse. the pilot of the coast guard aircraft was also able to escape but sadly the remaining five crew members on the coast guard plane were killed before they could get out. they were getting ready to take off and bring aid to western japan where rescuers are still searching for survivors from a powerful 7.6 magnitude quake that hit new year s day. i was shocked. you never know what will happen. there was an earthquake yesterday, too. once i got here there s the fire. you just never know. i can only say it was a miracle. we could have died if we were late in evacuating. japanese media is reporting police are investigating whether professional negligence caused the crash. the airline has not explained how the jet collided wind the coast guard plane, only saying it was making a, quote, normal entry and landing. as for the earthquake, at least 57 people were killed by the initial quake and after shocks with
and then the 367 passengers got out using emergency slides, seen in this phone footage. as i said, a transcript of air traffic control exchanges has been released today. bbc verify has also obtained audio of these conversations around the time of the incident. for example. most of the sound is very unclear. but from our analysis and the transcript, something important emerges there s nothing to suggest the coastguard plane seen in this archive video was given permission to enter the runway, leaving the question of how it ended up there. the aircraft could have crossed a red stop bar, a series of red lights across a taxiway. very unusual, if that was to happen. did they hear a take off clearance for another aeroplane and mistook it for themselves? or perhaps the dtc actually cleared them to line up on the runway. that will come out
mock-ups in large buildings where they run through the evacuation procedures and deploy the emergency slides like we saw in this incident, and sometimes the slides and those exits can be blocked. so you need to go to one that is different. i saw in the video that some of the folks were using r-1 exit which is the door at the front most nose of the airplane to get out on that slide. although, it seems that some parts of the plane were engulfed with flames and you want to go away. and this is to take away, listen to instructions of the flight crew, and they are there for your convenience and your safety and seconds can be the difference of life and death, and the rules of safety are written in blood. thank you, pete muntean, live for us in washington. thank you. and this is how it happened the flight 516 approached the