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He had just taken off, we understand, from georgetown airport in austin, which means he would have been full of fuel. how much fuel might we be talking about in a single-engine aircraft? >> somewhere between 50 and 90 gallons in that airplane. weighs about the same amount as an suv. >> okay. youve seen the pictures were showing on tv about the burn coming out of that building? >> i have, yes. >> does that seem consistent with 50 to 90 gallons of fuel and setting on fire things on fire inside the...

So, theyve landed there. at salt lake international, and now theyre holding on to absolutely everyone who was inside the plane. i think we have a little sound here. a sound bite, from a woman at the airport, who is explaining what is happening. oh, we do not? ill talk you through it. its an airport spokeswoman we got some sound from earlier, what is happening now they are not allowed to let anyone leave obviously. there are investigators on the scene, including federal investigators trying to fi...

Plan was not filed. jim tillman, everybody does not have to file a flight plan when they take off in a planle. >> absolutely. if they are going from one place to another, if they dont have to have flight filing, they generally dont file. >> tell me something else, jim, for people who dont know who have never flown a plane, explain to me how in a commercial plane like that, it generally goes where you tell it to go. it doesnt sort of do its own thing unless you lose control of the plane. >> no. a...

Situation. >> where do small planes level off? once they take off from airports, where do they ascend to before they start, you know, flying level? >> in an area like this, you have to be at least 1,000 above of anything in the nearby radius of just to be safe above the ground. so, a minimum of 1,000 feet. honestly, he should be 3,000 to 4,000 feet. >> there were people -- there are a lot of reports coming in. we dont know what we dont know. but there were people who sounded like it was coming i...

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 ...

They say 193 passengers and six crew are on board this united flight 741. and again, the fbi is on that plane investigating what they report as a bomb threat there. just wanted to get you caught up to date. back to austin, texas, now, where weve seen a small plane crash into a building. its called the echelon building. it does house some government offices. and this was a small plane that apparently went in over the highway and eyewitnesss say it made a sharp bank, shammed into this building aft...