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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 ...

Nearly 300 passengers most of them american. and a kabc reporter has more and reaction on this from los angeles. >> reporter: judy avritts life was forever changed in 1988 when pan am flight 103 was blown out of the sky by a bomb over lockerbie, scotland. her husband, jerry avritt, a flight engineer was on board the boeing 747. in the cockpit along with the pilot and co-pilot. >> pan am called me at work and said there had been an accident. and so i went home and i turned on the news and i knew ...

Engineer who had been hanging out on he cable was able to get across the cab and hit a button which sheered the cable. 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 t...

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 members suffer broken bones. the most seriously hurt, the flight engineer who had cut the cable, saving jeremiahs life and risking his own. ...

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 scared me to death. >> and then something truly amazing. >> i looked immediately to whe...

And then, suddenly, a change in the wind. >> 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 ...

How often do you have contact with the enemy? >> on a given day, 20 to 25 contacts with the enemy. >> pelley: we road in the massive mine-resistant trucks that have greatly reduced casualties from improvised explosive devices, the land mines that the army calls i.e.d.ss. colonel frank has about 4,000 soldiers plus 27,000 afghan army troops that hes training. theyre clearing the enemy, building a series of fortresses and, behind that in one of the worlds least developed countries, theyre creating...

When the boeing 707 crashes into a hillside in oyster bay, the cockpit breaks off, killing the pilot and flight engineer. theyre only 16 miles from the airport. >> come on, somebody get the back here. >> miraculously, 85 of 158 people onboard survive the impact. >> they are pinned beneath the wreckage, but there is no fires. >> clearly, the plane if the plane had been full of fuel they would have been all incinerated. >> the ntsb report says the cause of the crash is human error, that simply the...

Beverly 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 problem the pilot would have called us. >> to troubleshoot the problem, the l-1011 climbs to 2000 feet. then heads towards the everglades. the captain puts the plane on auto pilot. >> everybody wants to find the solution. thats just nature. we want to accomplish the mission. >> the crew suspects...

Minutes. around 8:20 p.m. they have 14,000 tons of fuel left, enough for another hour in the air. >> thats when the flight engineer should have made sure that the fuel levels were fine. >> ovianca, heavy. ill turn you back to the approach. is that fine with you and your fuel? >> i guess so. thank you very much. >> they inquired with air traffic controllers about how much longer its going to be. they were complaining about their fuel levels and air control asked where the alternate was, which was...