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That should happen in the next five years, but for now american crews have to hitch a ride with their russian counterparts. at the moment there are two americans on the six-member crew and they join us live from space on board the international space station, and there is a substantial delay. they are in space. joining us now flight commander dan burbank and flight engineer don petit. station this is fox news. how do you hear me? >> fox news this is station, we have you loud and clear, welcome a...

Remembers the horrible silence. >> the lack of that noise is horrendous impression. you have the wind against the fuselage. so that moment there was pandemonium. >> the crew calmly tells air traffic control that the engines have failed. they are quickly routed back to jfk. but it is too late. so when the boeing 707 crash into the millside in oyster bay, the cockpit breaks off, killing the pilot and flight engineer. they are only 16 miles from the airplane. miraculously 85 of 158 people on board ...

More than a faulty lightbulb. the co-pilot starts to replace it but he cant get the new bulb to go in. >> they fought with this thing for several minutes. 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 huma...

A plane or several of them, violated the no-fly zone. our team was allowed another first. to witness the exercise play out. >> we have a visual on the target. >> reporter: the target is 12 miles away. we race at 170 miles per hour to catch it. >> hes off to our left side, about 10:30 or so. >> reporter: we warn him with a lit sign. >> i told him to turn directly to an airport to land. >> reporter: if they dont -- >> d.o.d. will be having f-16s flying in combat air patrol. and they will deal with...

So at that moment there was pandemonium. >> just lost two engines. >> the crew calmly tells air traffic control that the engines have failed. they are quickly routed back to jfk, but it is too late. when the boeing 707 crashes into a hillside in oyster boy, the cockpit breaks off, killing the pilots and flight engineer. they are only 16 miles from the airport. miraculously, 85 of 158 people on board survive impact. they are pinned beneath the wreckage, but there is no fire. >> clearly the plane ...

Was actually in. so they broke the approach and advised air traffic control that they needed time to sort through a technical problem. >> unaware of whats going on in the cockpit, flight attendant feels the plane turn away from the airport. >> i wasnt concerned because things like that happened and if there was a problem, we had a phone by each of the flight attendant seats. if there was a midge or problem the pilot would have called us. >> the l-1011 climbs to 2000 feet. the captain puts the pl...

Coast, as they began to be issued holding instructions. and they held for three different times. >> the delays totaled 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. >> they inquired with air traffic controllers about how much longer it was going to be. they were complaining about their fuel le...

Killed when continental connection flight 3407 plunged into a house outside buffalo, new york, nearly three years ago. crash investigators later found the two pilots had come to work exhausted. neither had slept in a bed the night before, napping instead in an airport crew lounge. and the copilot had commuted cross-country from celtics to newark. both were heard yawning on the cockpit voice recorder. the pilots accidentally stalled the plane while trying to land. the n.t.s.b. blamed the crash on...

>> at this moment, the four terrorists were in the cockpit with us. they kill two terrorists quickly. approximately. >> suddenly a person appear s 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, very, very dangerous. >> three terrorists are quickly killed, but the fourth continues firing from the cockpit...

>> there we are, talking about things going on. 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. debris and the crewmen flying everywhere. jeremiah, who thought he was safe seconds earlier, nowhere to be found. >> i thought he was still attached to that bird. that scar...