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This -- plane crash into this building. again, heres the -- jon: jamie asks a question and for our viewers who arent familiar with aviation, its one worth answering. would this pilot have had to file a flight plan? no. if you are a vfr pilot, thats visual flight rules pilot, you can simply jump in your airplane, and as long as you have spoken with the tower or if its a nontowerred airport, and there are a great many of them in america, you simply get on a radio frequency, announce that youre goi...

Only use visual flight rules to land a cargo plane. given all of that, when all of that is done, you still have to have people on the ground to actually start doing the distribution. so i think youll see things start to improve, but as things start to improve, peoples frustrations continued to grow. this happens in every single disaster. >> but lets pull that picture back up of these 3,000 cargo containers filled with supplies that john was talking about. those are off the ships. those are on th...

Watching whats coming out of alaska in lieu of the plane crash, but obama spokes people are saying they dont know the status of former senator ted stevens, but the obama administration is passing thoughts and prayers to all involved. we want to see about the weather at the crash site and check out with the man whos going to help us with this, were joined by weather channel meteorologist dr. greg forbes. explain to everybody the type of situation this plane might have been flying through and the ...