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The radar says expect a smooth flight. but suddenly inside theres reason to panic. >> i noticed that thick smoke was pouring into the cabin through the vents above the windows. >> the acrid smoke was at the back of your throat, up your nose, in your eyes. >> reporter: they are 37,000 feet above the indian ocean when the engines ignite. >> the engines on fire! >> there were huge flames coming out of the back of the engines, 20, some people said 40 feet long. >> reporter: in about a minute and a h...

European flights scheduled for friday were canceled. among the airports hardest hit, europes largest, london heathrow to remain closed until at least 1:00 p.m. saturday. airports in a dozen other cities are shut down or in limited operation. including amsterdam. >> our flight to budapest has been canceled. i guess well sleep in the airport. there doesnt appear to be any hotel rooms. >> reporter: the ripple effect was felt in the u.s. where only a fraction of flights to europe took off. new yorks...

Bristol, england, the airport workers are playing runway games, running up and down, having their dogs run up and down the runways. someone even flew a kite on the runway, the only thing flying in the skies in great britain. the happiest people are tourists who found themself stuck in italian. if you have to be stuck somewhere, you could do a lot worse. >> good food, good coffee, good everything. thank you. coming up, well speak with a pilot who has flown through a volcanic ash cloud with 200 pa...

Northern europe devastated air travel. nearly half of the 30,000 european flights scheduled for friday were canceled. among the airports hardest hit, europes largest, london heathrow to remain closed until at least 1:00 p.m. saturday. airports in a dozen other cities are shut down or in limited operation. including amsterdam. >> our flight to budapest has been canceled. i guess well sleep in the airport. there doesnt appear to be any hotel rooms. >> reporter: the ripple effect was felt in the u....

Westerly flow. we should have this cutoff low down here. once we get everything going like it should, which is more west to east, that would drive everything more towards xands naf ya. that doesnt look like it wants to happen for a good couple of days. the forecast doesnt look to be clearing up any time real soon. maybe a couple of days from now. until then a lot of red on the map. if you are traveling to europe, its not going to be an easy go. maybe do it the old school way and get on a boat an...

A month. heathrow is closed. this is affecting dozens of flights to the u.s. and around the world. our tom aspell following the developments from our london bureau. tom, are they waiting to mother nature to allow these flights to resume? >> well, tamron, british aviation authorities are saying no flights for at least ten hours, maybe even 15. and volcanologists say the eruptions could continue for days or weeks. the particles in the ash cloud which is reaching up some three miles into the sky an...

Into question. as i understand it, he landed shot. so was he attempting to get in, attempting to duck under the weather? did he have navigation issues? did he have a last-minute engine failure that he was slow to recover from or maybe couldnt recover from because of his altitude? these are all questions that will have to be asked and answered. >> thank you. you have good points. as you said, the recordings will let us know what happened once they listen to them. thank you, john goglia, a member ...

Airplanes that theyre going to start testing and theyve got a lot of flight testing to do. they want to get this airplane certified and air worthy by the end of this year. so, you know, i think the delays for being are behind them. its interesting one of these test planes had to make an unscheduled stop because of an engine issue which kind of surprised me. >> not what you want to hear. >> its not what you want to hear. what the flying public doesnt realize, believe it or not thats not unsafe. f...

Without unanimous support, he feels its more important than ever to show that someone like him is in their corner. >> vietnam, they disagreed with the policy and they turned against the soldier. it wasnt our fault, we were doing our job, what we were asked to do. >> general ritchie says given the way this enemy is spread out and hard to define and the way hatred is passed from parents to children. he said this is the most important conflict america has ever engaged. julie, back to you. >> julie:...

Of fuel, an aerodynamic fall, or an engine failure. none of that could have happened, because eyewitnesss are reporting controlled high-speed flight into the building. so that leaves us with pilot incapacitation, which also doesnt fit the facts either, because they said it was a straight and level flight. it looked like controlled flight. so it does not look like a good situation, and sadly with reports coming in that it may be related to a house fire and perhaps a stolen plane, there are a lot ...