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No-mans land. too far to go back or forward. when the plane meets the water, there are violent consequences. the aircraft ends up in pieces. miraculously, everyone on board survives. over the caribbean sea, a dc-9 has had a staggering chain reaction of bad weather and bad luck, runs out of fuel. the violent impact kills 23 of 63 on board. and in the most famous case, a jet has the misfortune of running into a flock of canada geese. all on board survive. whats the takeaway? if your plane runs int...

>> as far as an accident being a chain of events, this definitely was it. >> on the ground, captain dewitt says he confirms he has enough fuel to make it not only to his destination but also to an alternate airport in case of a diversion. standard for all commercial flights. he goes through his equipment checklist and discovers the cockpits p.a. system isnt working. but thats not required. at 11:14 a.m., the flight is cleared for takeoff. the dc-9 is designed for short, frequent flights. at near...

There are officials searching through the ruins of sundays mid-air crash and found 15 more people dead on the ground. >> labor day weekend 1986 more than a mile above cerritos, a suburb of los angeles, a piper archer smashes into aeromexico flight 498, a dc-9. the top of the piper is sheered off, instantly killing all three passengers aboard, a middle-aged couple and their adult daughter. in the crash over san diego a -- eight years earlier, the larger plane, psa flight 182, loses sight of a muc...

And inform my mother that my fathers plane had crashed. and i told him that couldnt be true, because he was the best pilot. >> the outgrowth of it was a very strong commitment by piedmont airlines to be involved in to the traffic collision avoidance system, and some years later they were one of the first frk, if not the first, airlines to fly with an active tcas system on board. >> six years later, betty barrett is on board a charter jet when it collides with a dc-9 over france. all 68 on the dc...

It was a small wedding but its incredibly emotional not to be there. >> reporter: this winter has been so bad for travelers and its cost them big. nearly $3 billion this season alone. brianna? >> sunlen serfaty, thank you. chad myers is in our severe weather center. chad, why are so many airports still backed up. sunlen called it the hangover. >> you know, it is. because all of the pilots that are there may not be with the equipment that they need to fly. pilots are assigned and classified and q...

D.c. 9. orlando, 91. muggy there. yesterday was 92. today, 88. it feels like 96. im not sure i can tell the difference. >> appreciate it. >> big numbers either way. a 2-year-old alabama boy has one more reason to look up to his older brother. this is a big one. an 8-year-old saved his brother from drowning in their backyard pool when he suddenly went under, michael had to think fast. >> i thought to pull him up and yell for help. i dont want anything to happen to my little brother. >> it can h...

Machine, not necessarily long-haul flying machine. when it was used, it was used by the white house to fly all over the u.s. and central and south america. its passengers included on occasion the actual president of the united states. and that means that this dc-9 at some point was air force-freaking one. air force one isnt just one specific plane. air force one is what you call whatever air force plane the president happens to be on at that moment. so when a president was on this plane, and a p...

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