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His spine and lost total use of his legs. he uses a device and stands up and starts walking. what he has on is something called indigo. it is a powered ex-owe skeleton. it is a helps him walk. this gives michael what he thought he would never have again the. you never get enough of walking? >> until no, you never do. you dont know what you have until you miss it. so many times we walk around all day, im tired. i cant wait until i sit down. it is the opposite for me. >> reporter: he just can not ...

Theyre running the checklists and making sure that everything has been done that they need to do and its the bottom line, as long as youre not on fire and the your flight controls are working, everything is pretty much under control at this point. so, that thats the only thing, just making sure that everything has been covered in the checklist and that they do have a plan. and thats a plan thats not only for the approach and landing, but also what to do after they land and possibly an evacuation...

Stealth fighter jet. the tiny one-seater looks like a toy that might not be able to fly. they call it laughable fake. a reporter for foreign policy said it looks like the iranian dumped some rudimentary flight controls and an ejection sheet into a shell molded into what they thought were stealthy angles. a defense analyst looks like it might make noise and vibrate if you put a quarter in it. president ahmadinejad said it carries a message of peace, friendship, and brotherhood. our military achie...

And now it is time for "the mix." sol so get this. youve got a pilot. his name is ryan thompson. hes in the plane with his girlfriend, sort of taking her out for a ride. >> uh-huh. >> its being videotaped. we have some of the videotape. now he starts pretending that there is -- the plane is about to crash. >> pretending. >> there is a little problem. and basically says, honey, i need you to stay calm, the flight controls arent responding. i will need you to read through the emergency procedure. ...

The landing gear telling the plane it is on the ground not flying. turning off pressurization and the autopilot. >> if it thinks its on the ground, its going to want to pull the throttles all the way back. so theres no more thrust out of the engines. >> reporter: alaska air says a backup system immediately restored air pressure in the cabin. oxygen masks were never deployed. and the pilots took the flight controls. >> systems are not working properly you need to know how to manually fly the airp...

Air 539 from ontario, california, to seattle? a chorus of angry infants. >> all the babies were crying at the same time. >> reporter: ears popping plane-wide as the 737 with 131 passengers and 5 crew momentarily loses enough cabin pressurization to cause a painful alert that something is wrong. >> my ears about blew up on me. >> reporter: in the cockpit, pilots send an emergency call from 25,000 feet asking for priority landing at san jose airport. telling controllers theyre in the midst of a ca...

Into the cockpit, drawing power from the same source as the flight controls. >> under normal conditions, an in-flight entertainment system arcing event and fire would be controllable because they would be able to shut off electricity to it. unfortunately, in the case of swiss air 111, they were unable to do that. >> wear and tear on the entertainment system wiring created an opening that allowed electricity to jump out. an arcing event. the arc occurred right next to the wires that powered the f...

>> but when they did that, they no longer had air flow across the flight controls. >> they did a very good job of trying to get control of the airplane. but they just didnt have enough altitude or time to do it. >> the plane staggers up to 325 feet. as its rolled on to its side and slowed down, its uncontrollable, and goes into a nose dive. >> american 191, heavy. want to come back into what runway? >> hes not talkin to me. >> there he goes. there he goes. >> within 31 seconds of the engine seve...

Impossible. but six months into writing the final report, the impossible happens. >> we managed to come up with a wire bundle that was, in fact, involved in the lead event. >> the investigators identify microscopic points on two wires and determine that they were the first to experience a fault. but its still unclear why they malfunctioned and how they caused the crash. >> the md-11 was one of the earlier planes to have personal in-flight entertainment. and so in the first-class cabin area, this...

Off the airplane. theres no indication for that. >> look at this, look at this. blew up engine. equipment. >> the leading edge slats which give the wing better lift during slow speeds during takeoff and landing are controlled hydraulically. now with no hydraulics on the left side, the slats retract back into the wing. >> which means he has less lift on that side than he had on the opposite side, so it wants to roll. >> an eyewitness manages to snap a photo of the plane rolling on to its side wit...