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Learns that the afghans cannot operate and maintain the helicopters they already have and certainly not the new ones. >> this unfortunately is what we see time and again. >> per the last year the inspector general was issued reports on waste in afghanistan. millions for irrigation pumps that were not needed and expensive tractors too wide for the planning methods. paying for service and fuel thousands had stolen vehicles. $34 million state-of-the-art headquarters that the military doesnt want an...

Killed by two men in a ponga boat. the victim was chief petty officer terrell horn shown on patrol last year. park rangers worry with about a half million visitors a year, smugglers can confront tourists. >> its unfortunate that this activity is happening in a national park. >> on the mainland, the rancher worries about smugglers off loading near his property. >> thats where the boat landed and they have loads of mash. >> definitely reported that they found wet clothing and footprints. >> the la...

Airlines crash. a plane had some problem. it wasnt a major problem. but the pilot spent too much time preparing for the landing, and just ran out of fuel. and there were two people, the flight engineer and the co-pilot, who certainly saw this developing but they didnt intervene. so thats why they came in with whats called cockpit resource management. crm. and that was done in the 80s in this country. and other countries then picked it up following what we did. >> again, folks who might just be t...

Pain from the legs she lost when an r.p.g. hit her black hawk helicopter, so she had little sympathy today for virginia businessman braulio castillo. he won a contracting advantage with the i.r.s. reserved for disabled veterans based on a sports injury from his days at a military prep school. >> your foot hurt? your left foot? >> yes, maam. >> it hurt. yeah, my feet hurt, too. in fact, the balls of my feet burn continuously, and i feel like theres a nail being hammered into my right heel right n...

Out and hanging onto the cable was able to get across the cab and hit a button which shirred the cable and essentially blew it off so i was no longer attached to the helicopter. the six crew members in the helicopter came to help jeremiah, but now theyre the ones who need help. look at the replay of the videotape. theyre ejected, and the hulking helicopter rolls over some of them twice on the way down. but the mountain has another miracle in store on this day. amazingly, only two of the six crew...

Close to the icy surface, the jumper hooks jeremiahs litter to the helicopters heavy metal cable. now every second is crucial. and then, suddenly, a change in the wind. >> there we are, talking about things going wrong. hang on, fellows. oh, my goodness. oh, that is horrible. good lord. oh, fellows. oh, my goodness. youre watching this live, folks. >> i absolutely couldnt believe what i was seeing. >> more than six tons of metal flip over seven and a half times, rotors going in every direction. ...

Thats where the high-stakes raid takes place. all four terrorists are in the cockpit with three crew members. >> at this moment, the four terrorists were in the cockpit with us. they kill two terrorists quickly. approximately. >> suddenly a person appears through the blown-out cockpit window. its the co-pilot, jean-paul, who crawls out and drops nearly 20 feet to the ground, he shatters his thigh and arm. >> i was in the line of fire. there were two terrorists at my back and the french troops, v...

Weve seen leaders from both parties indicate that now is the time to get comprehensive immigration reform done. >> the new mexican president, pena nieto, has recently moved to limit the access that u.s. law enforcement agencies once had inside mexicos borders under his predecessor. that move is raising concerns about whats happening right now along the u.s./mexico border, where the answer to the question of how safe it is depends on where you look, as youre about to see from our nbc news hidden ...

The captain instructed the flight engineer to go down and see if he could manually see an alignment stripe that is on the nose gear that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb. >> this is where the insidious nature of human error begins to show itself. ideally someone does nothing but monitor the autopilot. but with the difficulty that the first officer was having with the b...

So as they came up the east coast, they began to be issued holding instructions, and they held for three different times. >> the delays total 77 minutes. around 8:20 p.m., they have only a little more than 14,000 pounds of fuel left, enough for another hour or so in the air. >> during those holding patterns, thats when the flight engineer should have made sure that the fuel levels were fine. >> avianca 052 heavy, im going to bring you to the northeast, is that fine with your fuel? >> i guess so....