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Birthday my uncle would always give me a round trip flight as a present i was even allowed to steer that went on for four or five maybe six years and there was nothing better than. today uncle hakim is a professional pilot and meyer motors flight instructor together with his brother elmer he runs the family business which specializes in restoring historical airplanes. the brothers founded the business a decade ago but the meiers were restoring and flying vintage aircraft long before that it all ...

Do you get the sense that people are appreciating what might happen? >> i think the people that were here in andrew and people who understand the power of a hurricane, who have watched other hurricanes, like in texas now, houston, those people now have seen so much and they finally realize. >> glor: the biggest threat here in miami is not the rain. as you saw in houston, with harvey, it is the wind speed and the storm surge, and the storm surge is the most difficult thing to predict. farther up ...

Took a ride with pilot paul barth. there are about 2.5 billion homes in florida in hazard zones. that is more than three times as many as any other states. >> this is a low area here. not very much, but two or three feet above sea level. so, if we have a strong storm surge, theres not much to protect it from the coastline. >> glor: so theres nothing stopping the surge from coming in. theres nothing stopping the wind. >> right, theres no barrier island on this side on key biscayne here. its wide ...

Or snack a day with glucerna made with carbsteady to help minimize blood sugar spikes you can really feel it. glucerna. everyday progress. ♪ >> leland: police shot and killed amanda portland, oregon. theyre saying he is trying to steal a helicopter. according to police, he hopped the fence and approach the aircraft, holding a gun. he fired several shots, forcing the flight instructor and student to get out of the copter. police arrived before the man could take off. see this video from outside...

Reported its first home-grown case of the zika virus, becoming the second u.s. state with local mosquitoes spreading the virus. there have been over 4,000 cases of zika reported here in the u.s. and sorry, hallie jackson, the eagles, philadelphia eagles, did not soar in monday night football. suffering their first home loss last night to the green bay packers. 27-13. >> all right, i want to go back to colombia where were going to talk more about the deadly plane crash that took place where as ...

City street in connecticut we told you about yesterday. the ntsb says it was an intentional act. the flight instructor got into a fight with the student pilot. the student pilot was so upset, he plunged the aircraft on the busy street on purpose. authorities say it appears the student was frustrated with his family for forcing him to become a pilot. a hurricane is gathering strength in the caribbean. some people already giving heavy wind and rain. the latest on where nicole is headed. thats ne...

>> reporter: dan miller is a flight instructor in leesburg virginia. >> anything a instructor can do to prevent a student from doing that. >> as instructors were trained to take the controls from anyone whos doing anything outside of the standard flight regime. in other words if they are not positively controlling the aircraft we have controls right in front of us. we can take the aircraft from the student. he said the instructors have the capability to grab the control yoke which looks like a s...

Flight instructor told investigators he got into a fight with the student pilot inside the cockpit. the student was so upset that he flew the plane into the ground according to our source. the source says it appears the student pilot appears he was being forced to become a pilot and was frustrated with his family. investigators plan to interview his family and search his computer the officials told cnn. while we dont know for sure what happened here. there have been previous intentional plane cr...

An intentional act? >> reporter: investigators were able to determine based on an interview with the flight instructor who was in the cockpit. he told investigators that just moments before the crash there was a struggle in the cockpit with the student pilot who was killed in the crash. the fbi moments ago took over the lead from the ntsb indicating this is now a criminal investigation. that flight instructor survived this crash, jim, by getting out of the plane before it burst into flames. acco...

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...