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On new years day. japan airlines flight carrying nearly 400 people burst into flames after colliding with a coast guard plane carrying relief supplies. the passengers and crew had about 90 seconds to escape. cbss elizabeth palmer has the story from tokyo. >> reporter: first using an explosion far down the runway. then the japan airlines airbus comes into view, trailing sparks and flame. video from inside the cabin showed relative calm. but outside, fire was engulfing the aircraft. pictures poste...

Joe: on most of these can you pull one lever and the door opens? my thought process is it is a two man job, work comp located, the way bombs are made. >> its pretty simple, more like the sliding of the lever, it gets complicated. evacuation slides, a passenger perspective is designed to be very easy, passengers can evacuate very quickly. joe: coming out of 9/11 theres all kinds of misconceptions about flight, what you can or cant do, is it or is it safe? some anxiety flying, would something like...

Thats slipping through the cracks. bret? >> bret: bill melugin along the border again. thanks. up next the panel afghanistan and the three-point kabul the secret trip to negotiate with the taliban. first hire is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering fox 17 in nashville as biden declares disaster declaration that killed 18 people in tennessee. fewer than 10 people remain unaccounted for. 213 fox in seattle where an alaska airlines flight is evacuated after a passengers p...

Towering up from the aircraft. and we were all just kind of, you know, glued to the side of the plane watching this unfold. and thinking that maybe there was no one in the aircraft because we didnt see any of the evacuation slides. and after maybe a minute, minute and a half, we saw four evacuation slides come out, two in the rear of the aircraft and then two in the front of the aircraft. >> and i can see in the video that you shot, you can actually see on the left-hand side of the aircraft peop...

>> lets start with a fox news alert. moments from a disaster. a plane bursted into flames on the run way in las vegas. it was a british air ways flight carrying 159 passengers and 15 crew members. it was ready for takeoff to london when the left engine suddenly caught fire. take a look. that passengers had to escape using inflatable evacuation slides. 14 people were hurt. injuries were not considered serious. some reported a delay due to passengers stopping to grab their bags from the overhead c...

Gate, i looked out to the right side of the plane and i saw the left engine of the aircraft kinds of engulfed in flames and black smoke kind of just towering up from the aircraft. and we were all just kind of, you know, glued to the side of the plane watching this unfold. and thinking that maybe there was no one in the aircraft because we didnt see any of the evacuation slides. and after maybe a minute, minute and a half, we saw four evacuation slides come out, two in the rear of the aircraft an...

Poor visibility seems to be one of the main reasons here. this plane actually circled the kathmandu valley for about an hour and a half trying to land. we spoke to one of the passengers on the plane, and he said it circled about seven times around this area which is about 100 miles square kilometers. and it tried once to land. it sort of went very close to the runway and then took off again. and then again 45 minutes later tried to land and thats when it crashed onto the runway and off to that g...