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Restart the engine. instead, the captain asks the flight engineer to try to start engine number four while they are still at 41,000 feet. the restart attempt fails, and the continued loss of thrust begins to slow the airplane down, but thats not the only problem. >> if you have failure of one engine, you now have an asymmetrical or unbalanced pow and the airplane will want to roll toward the failed engine because there is more power pro-dusd on the other wing. >> reporter: the airplane is rollin...

Denser so they can try to restart the engine. instead, the captain asks the flight engineer to restart engine number four while they are still at 41,000 feet. the restart attempt fails and the continued loss of thrust slows the airport down. >> if you have the failure of one engine, you have an unbalanced power and the airplane will tend to want to roll toward the failed engine because there is more power being produced on the other wing. >> the airplane is rolling to the right toward engine fou...

>> the crew suspects nothing more than a faulty light bulb. 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 then 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. meanwhile, the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb...

New york. a reserve, some holding fuel, and then also enough fuel to go to boston and land. >> with more than enough fuel, that shouldnt be a problem, but it soon becomes one. >> in new york, the weather was bad. so as they came up the east coast, 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 h...

>> dave was excited to think that he was the commentary on board that would them all about it. >> but today the earth isnt cooperating. majestic 12,000 foot mount airbus is shrouded in clouds. collins asked air traffic control if its possible to make his descent. >> they got destructions at jims request to circle lower and be able to show their passengers something of the area. >> 237 passengers are straining to get a glimpse of land marks, like the station they should be seeing any minute. when...

A holding pattern, the more alarm the first officer and flight engineer are becoming about the fuel situation. at 5:50 p.m., 18 miles south of the airport, one of them speaks up but still, not forcefully. >> the flight engineer is staring at the fuel gages and said not enough. thats going to run us very close out here but in the precrm era, you didnt challenge these authority figures. >> the first officer and flight engineer both insinuated and made statements but they were not direct. they didn...

>> flight 801s mounting problems are compounded by the crews failure to communicate. >> the first officer and the flight engineer make comments that indicate their increasing level of concern, but theyre soft comments. >> the cockpit voice recorder shows that up until 40 seconds before the plane crashes, the captain is still confused over the status of the glide slope, even though the first officer has finally stated its not usable. the crew complies with the captains commands, despite their con...

Uses here in the u.s. to support violent activities. last fall, the new york city police department told us it was paying close attention to the nations fascination with drones and the potential for security breaches. officials pointed out this video from germany in 2013 of a drone hovering over a crowd of people just as german chancellor angela merkel delivered a speech. it flew toward the podium and landed right in front of her. last fall, deputy chief salvatore dipace, one of the n.y.p.d.s to...

Children unattended in cars. there are four states so far that protect good samaritans who break into cars. but theres a push to do even more. >> we need to put a huge campaign together, get the auto industry, the government, all the safety advocates on the same page. >> reporter: theres already new technology. a car seat built with an alarm that sounds when the ignition is turned off. even apps on our phones. like the smartphone app that im using right now. its called remember the kids. it uses...

Austin stephanos and perry cohen. >> our focus right now is finding those boys, and weve got an awful lot of resources out here, and were going to continue to saturate this area and hit this really hard. >> reporter: the boys were last seen friday in jupiter filling up with $110 worth of gas. this morning the families describe the boys as strong fishermen who regularly went out on the water together. >> theyve been through rough water, thin water. it doesnt matter. >> reporter: their neighbor, f...