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Shoot this, before they even try and land. >> megyn: but what about some pilot, air force pilot, on, one presumes that the pilot of the lear jet has sufficient experience, it it can never hurt to get a second opinion? >> sure, thats why youd rather talk to maintenance personnel and not just another pilot, but a maintenance personnel could actually look up things in a manual, look up past precedent as far as something that happened before on the airport and what could they have done differently a...

Tower a look and better analysis for the actual pilot on board the affected plane, than he can make a better decision and process better. >> megyn: and i dont know, are you familiar with kahokia, illinois, obviously its not ohare, its a smaller rural part of illinois from the sound of it and there could be advantages it landing the aircraft there as opposed to in st. louis i want to bring our viewers just joining us up to speed on what we know. appears a small jet having landing gear trouble. th...

Theyre running the checklists and making sure that everything has been done that they need to do and its the bottom line, as long as youre not on fire and the your flight controls are working, everything is pretty much under control at this point. so, that thats the only thing, just making sure that everything has been covered in the checklist and that they do have a plan. and thats a plan thats not only for the approach and landing, but also what to do after they land and possibly an evacuation...

Tweaked in a different direction than is normal. this landing gear on this air force plane all appears to be in fine working order. but again, the signals are, this guy is going by, retracting landing gear, dropping it and then coming by again. and, but the helicopter pilot said he thinks theres also another plane out there, that could be burning off fuel, getting ready for its landing, and that this air force plane may have been up there as kind of a reconnaissance plane to take a look at the l...

We saw it a couple of times and now were told from ktvi in st. louis that thats not the affected plane, the one that reads united states airport on the side. that there is an lear jet in danger, out a ways and were waiting for information on that. and as we take a look at the emergency crews who are on the ground awaiting the affected plane, and its possible possible landing gear in kahokia, illinois. were not certain whether this plane thats affected will in fact attempt to touch down in illino...

Wheel was tweaked to the right. so, the gear, apparently comes down, but is malfunctioning. >> right. so, at that point maybe its not fully down and locked and thats why they would have a red indication on the nose gear light instead of the green indication, which means normal normally three down and green what we usually see for a pre-landing checklist. thats probably why they went ahead and did the fly-by by the tower and the tower is using their binoculars and see whats going on. >> megyn: wh...

And were hearing that they are reporting that the decide of that lear jet reads united states air force, which would be a good sign. these would be very well-trained pilots on board and we are getting jon scott, by the way, with us momentarily and in the meantime, i want to bring in dj frost, a commercial airline pilot with me now. dj, explain what you think is happening here? we dont know a lot other than its believed to be an lear jet with up to eight passengers on board thats having some sort...

Of plane, megyn as jon pointed out. this is an lear jet. makes sense this is not the plane, thats affected. they want to give the tower a look what its supposed to look like and retract the gear and give it one more look so if they do one more fly-by or possibly identify that this plane thats up there now burning fuel, keep in mind, depending how much fuel they have. they have time on their side and they dont want to land for a lot of fuel with the plane. and if its heavy they might fly around f...

The pilot considering the problems theyre having. what are the additional challenges posed by the fact that this is not a huge commercial jetliner? >> its just that you dont know whats going to happen as these jet blue pilots did not. they didnt know whether their landing gear would collapse, in which case, you know, all of a sudden, the cockpit is going to be slamming to the ground and potentially, potentially, you know, snapping, snapping that aluminum fuselage. in this particular case, the la...

Belly and fly-by. generally if your gear is down and youre having problems, you dont mess with it. >> leave it down. >> megyn: is there danger flying with the gear down, danger to the aircraft? >> no, they would keep the speed down below acceptable limits theres a speed for every aircraft at which you can lower the gear. >> megyn: these are back now to live pictures above the scene. again, this is in illinois where the initial plane, a small plane is preparing for emergency landing after reporti...