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Upgrade is underway that could mean faster flights and fewer delays. >> turn right. >> >> reporter: phasing out the rapid-clipped radio chatter between pilots and controllers discussing flight traffic, weather, and replaced with text file transfers to the cockpit. >> we hit enter wait for the response. >> reporter: what has been a 15 to 20 minute process cut to just seconds. >> rather than me having to manually type and enter the information after listening to it. i can uplink this into our flig...

On this saturday night suspicious explosions along the charity race course in new thousands ents before of runners were set to take off. tonight the fbi taking over the investigation. deadly rampage. an officer ambushed on patrol by a gunman in philadelphia. tonight one woman is dead and several people injured after a chaotic chase. poll after poll shows tightening race donald trump rallies his supporters call on hillary clintons body guards to drop their guns. clinton surrogates pouncing on...

Take? kristin fisher joins us live with the latest. they keep calling us out and we keep looking the other way. >> brian, tensions between iran and the u.s. navy has really been scplating for some time. so much so that the number of dangerous interactions at sea have doubled over the last year. this latest happened on saturday. two navy surveillance aircraft were flying on a recon mission over the persian gulf. 13 miles outside of iran. asked why they were flying so close to iran, u.s. official ...

Go out. i said, guys, hold on, whats going on? shut up. the flight is hijacked. >> okay. >> claiming to have a bomb, the hijackers demand to be flown to australia. >> this flight is destined to nairobi. we dont carry enough fuel to australia. lets land in nairobi, refuel and then well go to australia. >> the hijackers refused to allow the captain to refuel at cities along his route. they want him to fly out over the water towards australia. and the pilot knows thats a losing proposition. so he h...

Billion people. we would fly about the population of the earth every 24 months or so, and its expected to grow. >> with such increase in volume worldwide, it seemed there would be a greater risk of planes colliding in the sky. but technology is more sophisticated than ever. so these types of accidents are actually less frequent than in the earlier days of passenger jet travel. that doesnt mean midair collisions dont happen any more, because sometimes technology fails, and its nearly impossible t...

The only way out for the three men aboard was to crawl through an overhead escape hatch after they hit the water. would you really have been able to get out? >> its kind of rolling the dice ep that point. >> reporter: big roll of the dice. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: three lives. t mi reporter: lieutenant commander kellen smith, who is still aboard the "eisenhower" and spoke to us from the persian gulf, was sitting next to halliwell in the cockpit as his plane went off the end. s reporter: the pla...

odonnell: its been said the best pil odonnell: its been said the oust pilots have ice water in their veins, and youre about to meet two who fit the bill. heres david martin. reporter: watch what wbr-id "wbr9781" happened rrst march when a navy radar plane landed on the carrier "eisenhower." the arresting wire snapped, and instead of lurching to a halt, the 45,000-pound turboprop went off the front of the ship, frmpletely disappearing from a ght for what seems like a very long time. y...

Pictures youre about to see are extremely disturbing. cnns david mckenzie has an exclusive report from botswana. >> reporter: getting ready to fly in botswanas far north. elephant ecologist mike chase has spent years counting savannah elephant from the sky. >> never before have we ever conducted a standardized survey for african elephants at a continental scale. >> reporter: all right, start counting. hundreds of air crew counting elephants in 18 countries across the continent. over two years. >...

That i was ion the icelandic game show. and everyone knows me for discounts, like safe driver and paperless billing. but nobody knows the box behind the discounts. oh, its like my father always told me -- "put that down. thats expensive." of course i save people an average of nearly $600, but whos gonna save me? [ voice breaking ] and thats when i realized... im allergic to wasabi. well, i feel better. its been five minutes. talk about progress. [ chuckles ] okay.

Our captain is joaquin sanclemente, something of a legend in these parts. and his copilot, captain constanza. >> pablo: its mystical. you know, and they -- they develop this sensibility with the plane. theres no intel inside here. theres no software. they have gps, but thats about it. its beautiful. you know, they have to sense everything. they know when the sound of the plane is not right. its just man and machine. >> anthony: the weather is the big unknown around here. its changeable enough to...