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Of the napkin calculations what that had little bend in the route would have cost any airline, flying a 777. it would have been about $1,000 in fuel costs, thats $3 per person. i saw today, it was really good to see the chairman and chief executive officer of emirates airlines, which is the largest international player in the world on passenger count, calling for the airlines to get together and try to figure this out for themselves. that is a good sign because frankly, waiting for the united na...

Starting to kind of lift. and it began to cartwheel, and as it started to cartwheel to its left-hand side, the wing broke off on the left-hand side. you could see the tail immediately fly off of the aircraft. and as the aircraft cartwheeled, it then landed down and the other wing had broken off. and there was no fire or fireball with the crash after the initial -- >> we want to thank our police -- >> okay, i want to go to doug yakel, airport spokesperson. this is the news conference i was tellin...

Impression of a real fire inside. but apparently everybody was out, because you look at this picture, you dont see anything like a passenger anywhere. and i dont believe theyre still on board. >> at the bottom of the hour when we get this ntsb press conference, what can we expect from that? >> not a whole lot, because the ntsb is extremely careful about what kinds of information they release early on. they will give you some great general information and that sort of thing, but they dont answer ...

Let me begin confirming some of the basic facts of the incident. that about 11:27 this morning, an incident occurred on asiana airlines flight 214. this is a boeing triple 7 aircraft coming from seoul. we want to thank you are police and fire, our first responders, mutual aid responding so quickly. we are still on the scene addressing the incident. we do not have numbers in terms of the passenger count at this time. we dont have any information at this time as to the status of those passengers. ...

Tierney, nebraska, they saw the sights. and back in clarksburg, the director gets money to fly school students to washington, d.c., for the day to bump up his passenger count. how is that paid for? >> it was through the contributions through the board of education. this is the restaurant. its closed. >> reporter: busy airport. the airport just got a separate $150,000 grant from the faa to -- well, you guessed it -- to promote itself. no planes, no restaurant. now consider this, the three schedul...

>> reporter: ad. >> free flights, trying to meet the quote ta and there were 300 passengers short of -- >> reporter: literally a free flight? >> it was awesome. >> reporter: last december susan pearson saw an ad in the paper for a free sightseeing flight. >> it was quite a thrill. >> reporter: local news was there too, catching her, her grandson donovan and hundreds of others flying a chartered 757 above bridgeport and clarksburg. where did the flight go? >> it went everywhere. >> reporter: it w...

Back in clarksburg, rick gets money to fly school students to washington d.c. for the day to bump up the passenger count. how is that paid for? >> through contributions through the board of education. this is the restaurant. looks like its closed. >> reporter: the airport just got a separate $150,000 grant from the faa to -- well, you guessed it, to promote itself. >> no planes or restaurant. >> reporter: consider this, the three scheduled departures a day, they do go to washington, but all stop...