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And so succession planning is a must. the owners of a model airplane company had given some thought to a future, but they didnt have a formal plan in place. for a while they looked like they might have to sell, but much to their delight after years of saying no, their son decided to help them. now everyone has formed the brand and they make sure things take off. >> this company is boater stored than it was 20 years ago and its ready for the next step. my idea coming in was, yeah, i was going to ...

Developing tonight. new hope for new clues in the search for missing malaysian airlines flight mh 370. malaysian officials say they are almost certain that debris washing up off the african coast is from a boeing 777, the same model airplane matching the missing malaysian flight. the debris is being transported to france for analysis. that will determine whether these parts are from mh 370. investigators are also looking at battered luggage believed to have washed up in the same area as the plan...

Everybody has to think, oh, my god, he actually landed this plane. >> to pull it off, drager, along with producer jan barons and post production consultant, michael viksu, combined three different planes. first, a remote controlled model airplane. to make the wing of the remote control plane disappear, they painted it out, frame by frame, replacing it with the blue from the sky. the detailed 3-d aircraft was created with a computer and inserted into footage shot on location at a hamburg airfield...

>> okay. so kristen, stay with me. were trying to figure out exactly whether it was a drone. eyewitness saying maybe it was a model airplane. this just happened within the past hour. were trying to get the details and facts straightened out for you. pamela brown, let me bring you in. we know that what a couple months ago there was another drone incident. four months ago? >> it was in january. there was a former intelligence services government employee who was flying his drone he says recreation...

Originally they told us it was a drone. someone else said it could have been a model airplane. given the many incidents lately of security breaches at the white house, one man told us he said to the guy flying the device he said dont do that youre going to get in trouble, theyre going to come after you. he said it was just a split second before secret service tackled him down. >> i used to live a couple blocks from the white house in my time in d.c. what side of the white house are we talking ab...

People saying it was a drone, then someone else said a model airplane. she said she wasnt sure she just saw it flying up and she had assumed that it was. im not positive that it was a drone now. we did have someone say they saw it on the ground i didnt get a good look at whether or not. it could have been either a drone or airplane. he was trying to fly something over the fence. and i should mention that it never got over the fence. >> the drone or the small plane whatever it was, the model plan...

And that, in the end, the pilot steps out of the plane and everybody has to think, oh, my god, he actually landed this plane. >> to pull it off, drager, along with producer jan barons and post production consultant, michael viksu, combined three different planes. first, a remote controlled model airplane. to make the wing of the remote control plane disappear, they painted it out, frame by frame, replacing it with the blue from the sky. the detailed 3-d aircraft was created with a computer and i...

Something would also then not be picked up on radar. no drone would be. a drones already landed on the white house lawn. >> thats true. we just had this plot about five years ago, a guy had a model airplane capable of carrying 50 pounds, a jihadist he was going to fly it into the capitol dome with the idea that when the feel came hurrying out of the dome it wasnt going to do serious damage but make a loud noise. when people would come running out of the dome he and fellow jihadists were going to...

Steps out of the plane and everybody has to think, oh, my god, he actually landed this plane. >> to pull it off, drager, along with producer jan barons and post production consultant, michael viksu, combined three different planes. first, a remote controlled model airplane. to make the wing of the remote control plane disappear, they painted it out, frame by frame, replacing it with the blue from the sky. the detailed 3-d aircraft was created with a computer and inserted into footage shot on loc...

And that, in the end, the pilot steps out of the plane and everybody has to think, oh, my god, he actually landed this plane. >> to pull it off, drager, along with producer jan barons and post production consultant, michael viksu, combined three different planes. first, a remote controlled model airplane. to make the wing of the remote control plane disappear, they painted it out, frame by frame, replacing it with the blue from the sky. the detailed 3-d aircraft was created with a computer and i...