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At you, the pilot, whats your first course of action? what do you do? >> what are you trained to do? >> operating under duress, there arent many options if you have something pointed at the head. you are literally at the whim of what that person wants you to do. jim is absolutely right in terms of the fire scenario. whenever you have an emergency in an airplane, most of them involve converting speed to height. you fly the aircraft. you navigate an then you communicate. another big manager is con...

Did it come apart in flight? and most importantly to the families, could anyone have survived? investigators are also exploring the possibility that it was terrorism. investigators are now leaning towards the possibility the malaysia airlines jet broke up at 35,000 feet. an aviation expert i spoke with said evidence found so far seems to support that theory. >> i can tell you that whatever happened had to be very catastrophic. youre talking in terms of engine failure, literally if both engines h...

Stuff, debris floating on the ocean. >> from cnn weather center, the weather at kuala lumpur airport at the time of takeoff about ten hours ago showed partly cloudy skies, light winds, less than 10 miles per hour, estimated the plane would have been over cambodia or vietnam at the time it lost contact. theres no significant weather issues in that area, no big storms or anything. if theres been no weather element to all this -- obviously we have no idea -- could it just simply be engine failure? ...

And i sat at a picnic table and just drank a beer and was eating some steamed crabs. >> left to right, the stealth-117, ladies and gentlemen. >> as a special treat, the f-117 stealth bomber is scheduled to fly over the air show en route to andrews air force base. to the amazement of the crowd, the military aircraft whizzes past them. on the second pass, the announcer encourages the crowd to cheer on the pilot. >> want to hear some noise. >> two successful and spectacular fly-by, but on the third...

Was, in fact, taken offline after 30 yards of hard duty. being a heavy duty ice breaker is really hard work. the ships cant last forever. and so at the end of its expected 30 years, in 2006, the "polar star" was not moth balled exactly, but they stopped deploying it. it basically retired as a ship. four years into that retirement, though, in 2010, the only other ship that the coast guard had with that same capacity broke down. that one was the same vintage, a sister ship. it broke down in 2010, ...

Adopted the minimum practices. the fec is requesting more money, about $2 to $3 million more to shore up those systems. this report shows an agency that is in complete decline. carol? >> its just awful. chris lawrence reporting live this morning. sad bit of breaking new this is morning. its quite sad. helicopter crash in southern afghanistan. american forces have been killed. cnns barbara starr is at the pentagon with more. hi, barbara. >> good morning, carol. terrible news for u.s. military f...

Six u.s. service members killed when their chopper crashed in afghanistan. early reports indicated the cause may have been engine failure. >> scotland yard saying that there is no evidence that british special forces were involved in her death. in italy, amanda knoxs defense attorneys making arguments. submitting an e-mail to the court denying involvement, the highest court vacated the indictme

Crash in southern afghanistan. there was one survivor. theyre not offering a lot of information here at the pentagon, of course, because they want to notify the families first. the initial indications were told is there were no signs of enemy fire in the area at the time. there is a report of some type of engine failure, were told. but, of course, this entire incident, very closely now being investigated by military authorities in afghanistan and by the pentagon to find out exactly what did happ...

Other people survived. the airlines owner says engine failure caused the crash. >> police say somebody tossed a hand grenade at a van carrying british tourists in kenya near the coast of the ocean. there is no word of anybody hurt. >> when we come back in just a moment, want to see a doctor over your phone? theres an app for that and its cheap.

National transportation safety board finds the crash could have easily been avoided. >> in this case, we obviously had a healthy live pilot to be able to talk to so thats where were going to center in on. >> the ntsb determines the reason for engine failure, pilot error. the pilot ran out of gas and didnt switch over to his reserve fuel tank. >> in the hospital, he came up and i thanked him for saving our lives, because he did. he landed the craft, everybody walked away for the most part. howeve...