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There should not be a knee-jerk reaction and reassess the pay the locator beacons are positioned. there are secondary systems. this is a perplexing case. >> sylvia, you spoke of a 1972 flight. remind us. >> this was a flight from anchorage, alaska to juneau. it was carrying two u.s. congressmen. it took off. the plane was planning to operate under visual flight rules. the weather was not conducive for that. the pilot took off and made brief contact with air traffic control. it continued on its w...

As far as departures go at this hour. then, when we move to the noon hour, they will be up to 50% and again by 3:00, they say they will be 100%. were talking about 3:00 eastern time, carol. >> maybe they will be back up to 100%. from a business standpoint and a p.r. standpoint, it is not great. you have everybody in all the airlines delayed or not even sitting on the tarmac. they wish they were. jetblue is getting all the grief today, in part, because they said, among the reasons why they did th...

Response. and lastly, you know, this is a really good tip. all those people we saw sleeping on the ground in the airport, what they recommend sometimes is buy a day pass to one of the lounges. youre a lot more comfortable. there is food. and they also have staff there. the lines are a lot shorter. and you may get through a lot quicker. and just -- wolf, one bit of news coming into us right before we came up here. jetblue. if youre on a jetblue flight, you might want to know, the airline is telli...

The pilots were making a steady approach. what i would say about sfo is the approach is a fairly complicated approach. the crew would have been fatigued. they would have been coming to a relatively long day and the pilot is given visual flight rules. there is visibility in excess of five miles. but most pilots make these approaches with semi or fully automated systems. so the crew will have been fairly tired. the approach because the threshold is protruding out into the sea. the captain wont hav...

Impact on the stone embankment, one set of plan beilanding gear plane stabilizers, the tip of the tail, debris littering the runway. officials say there was no sign of trouble before the plane crashed. . the weather ideal, a clear day. all traffic using visual flight rules to land. pilots say landing at san francisco international can be tricky. this shows the final approach. the runway starting at the waters edge. two things theyre looking at are the engines. asiana airlines saying both were in...

>> can you overlook that, or is that a pretty obvious alert that goes out to pilots? do you check that every time you land some place? >> it could be overlooked. but if youre on a trans atlantic flight and youre coming in where you could have instrument conditions, thats going to be an issue because you need that for instrument conditions. now, today they were landing under visual flight rules, so this was an eyes on, theres the airport, im flying the airplane, im going to land there. >> it was ...

Its clear it was possibly too low, and flying different than it should have. they wanted to have a particular path through the sky, werent able to maintain that path and at the last minute, werent able to get enough altitude to avoid that wall. >> would that be an unstabilized approach because of the execution of that landing or might it be any kind of mechanical failure of that plane short of that runway? is there a way to know? >> its hard to see a any -- without getting the information from t...

Times. im surprised it didnt come apart altogether and it was unreal. >> reporter: helicopter pictures show the trail of destruction. impact on the stone embankment at the runways. landing gear and wheels, the stabilizers, the tip of the tail debris from the plane littering the runway. officials say there was no sign of trouble before the plane crashed. the weather ideal, a clear day. all traffic using visual flight rules to land. >> air traffic controllers can be heard guiding in asiana 214 and...

Through. they need to give us clearance. so we are going to defer to their process of investigation before we initiate efforts to reopen that final run way. yesterday all of the systems that were required were operability, operating under clear weather conditions and using visual flight rules and systems required for run way use were fully functional yesterday. everything that was required -- the faa determines what equipment is required to use the run ways under any given condition. in this sit...

program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. >> id like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. im just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. >> the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney a...