Landing Pattern News Today

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Taken. and for those not familiar with the geography of this area, the southern tip of man hat unanimous landing pattern near. it would have been difficult. >> in the, apparently an american airlines flight, and then do what he described as a sharp right turn right toward the world is he. unsaid they were getting off the path. police told him to get out of the building immediately. he. >> this footage shows that the damage is so severe. we had seen what seemed to be

Hamas rocket attacks arent obviously sophisticated like that attack. but if one of these were to be the blind squirrel that finds a nut and hits a jet. >> if any of these rockets were to hit a jet when it was in flight, it clearly would be a stroke of luck. that would be the kind of big sky little bullet theory. and if it happened to run into an aircraft in flight, it would be devastating. but once these aircraft are coming into a landing pattern in to ben-gurion and this surface-to-surface rock...

Fred? >> yeah. it was -- again, it was -- you know, my initial thought was that nose was up because he was trying to divert. but i also was thinking that if he had just came in normal that he was landing normal that, you know, the flight -- his position looked, you know, maybe a little lower than some of the other planes but i couldnt say that for sure. he looked like, you know, the reason he impacted is because i saw that the nose in the air and the tail was down and, you know, he just ran out ...

A possible emergency landing. that is a leer jet. we do not know who is on board, but were told as many as eight passengers are there. it looks to be ascending again, rising. that would indicate theyre not happy with the landing pattern or with the gear that they have, the equipment they have right there. tory this is now the second time we have seen them go down with some kind of gear deployed and rise up again. any sense of what the procedures might be or why they might be doing this? >> well,...

The airport. they told us it is a leer jet, theyre preparing for a crash landing. were also told there are eight people on board, and information is coming in, basically by the minute here. youre taking a look at the plane right now. we do have reason to believe it was set to land at that airport anyway. and we have also heard that possibly it did a fly by the control tower and thats the point that they may have determined there was a problem with that landing gear there, john. >> it does look l...

Geography of this area, the sorj tip of manhattan would be very much near the flight, the landing pattern for jfk airport. it could have been easy for a hijacker to pretend that he was taking that plane to jfk and veer off at the last minute. >> i heard an eyewitness say over washington square he saw a plane go over at 1,000 feet and apparently the american airlines flight and then do what he described as a sharp right turn toward the world trade center. he then lost sight of it. >> one eyewitne...

Familiar with the ggraphy of this are the southern tip of manhattan would be very much near the flight, the landing pattern for jfk airport. it could have been easy for a hijacker to pretend that he was taking that plane to jfk and veer off at the last minute. >> i heard one eyewitness say that over washington square, which in the lower reaches of manhattan, you s a plane go over it about 1,000 feet. apparently the american airlines flight and then do what he described as a sharp right turn righ...