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Say safe travels, but most significantly with a boeing 737. it can be a lot of airlines asking a lot of questions. >> indeed. thanks so much. >> lets bring in american airlines pilot tom casey who is a flight instructor. its grit to see you. put yourself in the cockpit and tell us what you would have had and what would have gone through your mind and if you can prepare for a situation like this. >> you prepare for it. every training cycle in the simulator, each member is given a simulated decomp...

It this way to fox "the president is trying to stake out a common middle ground and gets kicked in the shins by the far left." shannon? >> shannon: thank you. it was a close call for two pilots forced to ditch their plane in the arkansas river. they were trying to land in tulsa, oklahoma, when the engine cut out. the pilot and his flight instructor were forced to made a hard emergency landing in the water. the fire department used an inflatable boat to rescue the pilots. unbelievably, neither of...

You mentioned after the new york crash in october of 2006, cory lidle, the rules changed for flying around municipal areas, especially new york city. >> with the new rules in new york and no new york area, it is monitored and tight area to fly. and i would say that i would not -- fly over the hudson river, for example. a place like austin is it almost impossible to have that kind of monitoring like have you in new york after the lidle crash? >> austin is a mid-sized airport. theres not the same ...

New york, october, 2006, baseball player cory lidle crashed into a high-rise building in new york city killing himself and another person. that was accidental. you have milan, italy, april of 2002, where a private pilot crashed into the pirelli tower. ruled most likely accidental. tampa bay, florida, january of 2002. 15-year-old flight student crashes a plane into the bank of america building. that was ruled a suicide. lets first talk about the intentional crashes. today and also in tampa in 200...

>> john, tell me what you know, as a flight instructor. again, we do not have confirmation on what type of plane this is. there are conflicting reports as to whether it was a cirrus sr-22 or a piper pa-28. we will continue to check in to this, but it does -- we are getting a lot of reports that it was a single-engine plane that went into this building. tell us what we need to know about this type of plane. >> well, if youre flying an airplane, its going to be at a lethal speed, if you do decide,...

Situation. >> where do small planes level off? once they take off from airports, where do they ascend to before they start, you know, flying level? >> in an area like this, you have to be at least 1,000 above of anything in the nearby radius of just to be safe above the ground. so, a minimum of 1,000 feet. honestly, he should be 3,000 to 4,000 feet. >> there were people -- there are a lot of reports coming in. we dont know what we dont know. but there were people who sounded like it was coming i...

Been accounted for. authorities believe the pilot identified as joef joseph stack intenti intentionfully flew into the building avoceting his own house on fire earlier in the mrng. police are searching an airport hangar and stacks car for explosives. stack was a software engineer and apparently left a suicide note on the internet. in the six-page message, he rails against the irs and the federal government. some witnesses to the crash describe it as a very disturbing wakeup call. so what can we ...

Note on board, but as we know, everyone on board is fine. >> josh, well stay on top of it. as of right now, we believed two matters are unrelated as far as we know. i want to tell you what the faa has told us about the pilot of the other plane that went into the building in -- in austin. the statement from the department of homeland security says -- im sorry, this is from the department of homeland security. it says, "we continue to gather more information, are aware that there is additional i...

>> neil: was it more amazing when you found out at least at this point, jerry, that the only one who died was the pilot? and well, there are two people who were bushed ed ruse hospital, and i believe theres one still missing, thats it. >> you cant see pieces of the airplane. it just vaporized. i thought -- i used to work in the building next to it. its cubicle h heaven. i thought 20 people must have died. it stood there and people began to pour out of the restaurant. i was all by myself for a wh...

Plane just come right over him. he was a former pilot and he believed this to be a cherokee 140. now, that is not confirmed whatsoever. but he was a former pilot, a former flight instructor. he said that it looked like a cherokee 140 plane that was inside this building. chris? >> and matt, have you heard anything about the search for survivors inside that building or anything like that? >> reporter: well, ill tell you what, kate, were across the highway from exactly where this building is at. i ...