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Whatever reason, fly into the mountain side. they are saying that flying under visual flight rules in a day when that was not recommended was not a good idea, but they cannot come to a specific cause of the crash that killed former senator ted stevens of alaska. more in just a moment.

Owned the plane that crashed and the fishing lodge from which it departed for this trip. when the plane did not arrive at its destination, volunteer pilots flew out over the flight path to investigate what might have happened. they found the planes wreckage on a remote rocky mountain side sometime after 7:00 p.m. last night. because of low visibility and poor weather conditions, it wasnt until about 12 hours later that the alaskan national guard and the coast guard were able to reach the crash s...

The fishing lodge from which it departed for this trip. when the plane did not arrive at its destination, volunteer pilots flew out over the flight path to investigate what might have happened. they found the planes wreckage on a remote rocky mountain side sometime after 7:00 p.m. last night. because of low visibility and poor weather conditions, it wasnt until about 12 hours later that the alaskan national guard and the coast guard were able to reach the crash scene. before the coast guard and ...

Of 3 miles, fog and lis -- jon: 3 miles is considered reasonably good visibility. you can flight under visual flight rules if you have 3 miles visibility. again in a place like alaska that can change very quickly and if youve got gusting winds as you were talking about, you know, if the wind is gusting 23 miles an hour and funnels through a pass all of a sudden you can get wind that is much, much stronger than that. there has got to be much to be determined about how high they were. it raises th...

President bush, saying barbara and i mourn the loss of ted stevens and sends our most sincere condolences to his family. there have been a lot of questions about what the weather conditions were at the time that flight took off. the weather channels dr. greg forbes joins us now with information on that fatal crash, what can you tell us? >> weather conditions were deteriorating rapidly, right at dillingham, they were just marginal, about three miles to seven mile visibility. and the ridiculous ba...

Was originally built with. and theres a look at what looks to be the original raidual engine, the piston engine. you can see that in the flying picture we just had up, its got a much more narrow nose. thats because it apparently had that texas turbine conversion kit put on it, and you can see that its getting ready to land or maybe it just took off from its wheels. this is an amphibious aircraft t. can lapped on the notes or if the pilot chooses he can drop the wheels and land on a hard surface,...

And there is still a lot of near collisions where people are following visual flight rules. for example, everyone remembers the mid air over new york with the helicopter and fix the wing over the hudson. they were following visual flight rules. meaning they were seeing avoiding. that doesnt work. the airport is still most dangerous part. but once youre in the open skies, there is a lot of room for our nations 239,000 airplanes. the problem is they try to funnel into 460 airports that are commerc...

They were both flying in an area known as the hudson river vfr corridor between new york and new jersey. has the faa made any changes to the rules for this air space, which is really crowded? >> it really is. and we did get new rules, the faa established special flight rules to that area in november of last year that will provide better spation of aircraft over that air space, the new flight rules were only previously recommended but not mandatory, now all pilots must maintain a speed of 140 kno...

Danger zone. you can see it extends to newfoundland and canada. this is where volcanic ash is rampant. planes are few and far between. some airlines the danger is exaggerated by civil aviation authorities. the blue lines here, see those? thats normal trans atlantic air routes. these ones here. they havent been normal for six days now. you can see most of southern europe, most of it except for this, is in the clear. most of france, all of france is in the clear. scotland is actually okay today. s...

They were traveling at about 12,000 feet, and usually using visual flight rules rather than radar or sensitive instruments. so i think given the news that the dutch havent found anything, aviation officials all over europe will be privy to that information and theyll make their own decision in the future not, i think, based just on the dutch word for what they found on the test. theyll probably take into consideration the german results as well. but im not so sure that theyll be convinced that i...