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Flight 6132, he decided to head to the head before landing, but the door got jammed. he couldnt get out. a passenger tried to let the crew in the cockpit know what was going on. heres the first officer who was flying the plane at the time raising concern with the control tower. >> reporter: so the pilot declares an emergency landing. fighter planes are alerted, but before theyre scrambled, the captain manages to escape the bathroom. heres what he said.

The intelligence community about who was really going to take over for bin laden. there was debate about whether he had the charisma. the name at the top of the list is anwar al-awlaki and that is because he was american. he was behind this incredible recruitment drive. remember back in may, just five days after bin laden was killed, u.s. forces, drones as well as fighter planes narrowly missed killing him. it was a hairier jet, actually, that we reported it at the time was -- struck the vehicle...

bare bones bargain. if not, payments to critters, bill payments, you name it, there is not enough income to cover all that. every month we come up $125 billion short. if we cannot borrow to bridge the cap, 40% of the monthly obligations could not be paid, and that could include social security checks due to go out on august 3rd. the stakes we just laid out are monumental, so both sides have to give ground and risk their jobs for the good of the country. what is so hard about that, righ...

Not include the close air support of ac-130s. >> right. we would not participate in the strike mission. >> reporter: now it turns out the u.s. have 11 fighter jets that are in fact dropping bombs since last week. six f-16s and five growlers and 40 fighter planes on standby in italy. senator john mccain is calling for the u.s. to reengage further. >> the united states is nato and when you say that we are handing it over to nato, you are handing it over to people and countries with limited capabil...

That we intend to provide after the next two days would not include the close air support of ac-130s. >> right. we would not participate in the strike mission. >> reporter: now it turns out the u.s. have 11 fighter jets that are in fact dropping bombs since last week. six f-16s and five growlers and 40 fighter planes on standby in italy. senator john mccain is calling for the u.s. to reengage further. >> the united states is nato and when you say that we are handing it over to nato, you are hand...

We knew it was western coalition, if you like, fighter planes. suddenly, we were going to be underneath and were underneath bombs falling on that military base. so that was another whats going to happen now? this changes everything. >> unbelievable. and unbelievable as well is that this is not your first experience. 2004, you were captured in fallujah in iraq, afghanistan in 2009. you just said you were very happy to be home with your family. and im sure there are people out there watching and s...

The air mission. >>reporter: that is significant because those are the first arab coalition members to come to the fight. the planes, the fighter planes flew alongside the french fighter jets today and the u.s. and others have been very anxious to put a broader face on this coalition and having the arab planes flying is significant. >>shepard: is it true that coalition forces are not going to fire at targets inside cities? they are worried about civilian casualties? report that is what we just h...

>> it is clearly the intent that when the mission is accepted by nato that the u.s. will contribute what we call unique u.s. military capabilities. i think its likely to see capabilities such as u.s. aircraft that are very capable of you is presentation of enemy air defenses or jamming systems. >> he hopes u.s. planes will be in a standby role and less prominent role once nato takes over command but he has to wait until the nato political leaders meet in brussels on sunday and they dont plan to ...

Able to rescue the crew. we are getting details about the crash site, right? >> thats right. we understand that u.s. fighter planes went back overnight and crashed that bomb site because they wanted to destroy the remains of that f-15 so that no one could steal any valuable parts or any of the valuable avionics. this is standard operating procedure after such a crash. we cant confirm they did that last night at night in order to avoid any civilian casualties, shep. >> shepard: jennifer griffin l...

President presidential war power. now he has a different view. if you have been watching you have seen nic robertson reporting almost around the clock from tripoli. tonight hes responding to a story being pushed from fox news claiming he and other reporters covering the war in libya were taken to a compound and used as human shields to prevent a coalition strike, an allegation with zero foundation. earlier wolf blitzer spoke with nic for the real story. >> i want you to explain what you know abo...