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Hes now following the developments for us from hong kong. what can you tell us. >> reporter: thats right. this accident took place according to the u.s. navy within the last three hours. it was a u.s. navy aircraft that was approaching the uss ronald reagan. thats an aircraft carrier thats been operating in these waters and then this crash took place. the navy says there were 11 passengers and crew members on board and that a search and rescue operation is currently underway. the japanese defens...

For carrier delivery aircraft. its a propeller plane. it went down into the ocean as it was coming towards the uss ronald reagan after after 2:00 p.m. local time on thursday. the weather seems to be fine. the japanese defense minister told reporters several hours ago that there were reports of engine trouble. but the u.s. navy is not confirming that at this point. eight of the individuals who are on board that air kravrt when it went down were rescued within several hours of its crashing. and th...

Three u.s. navy personnel are missing sought of japan after the crash of a navy transport plane en route to the aircraft carrier the uss ronald reagan. desperate search now under way, 500 miles at sea. eight other service members were found alive at the crash site and are reportedly in good condition. courtney swroins me now from the pentagon. courtney, this is a few hours after midnight in the region, so what do we know? >> we know the u.s. navy is still conducting ago thorough and widespread s...

His pilots license my brother and i went up with them regularly as children and thats how we caught the flying bug. the brothers even experienced a crash with their father the plane was totaled but that didnt dampen their passion for flying twenty five years ago the brothers bought an aircraft of their own today meyer motors employs more than twenty people in two thousand and eleven they found this one nine hundred fifty hawker c. fury at an air show the propeller plane could go almost as fast a...

Birthday my uncle would always give me a round trip flight as a present i was even allowed to steer that went on for four or five maybe six years and there was nothing better than. today uncle hakim is a professional pilot and meyer motors flight instructor together with his brother elmer he runs the family business which specializes in restoring historical airplanes. the brothers founded the business a decade ago but the meiers were restoring and flying vintage aircraft long before that it all ...

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To become a pilot. a commercial pilot. so thats what he pursued from an early age. and he was very, very happy. he already had an internship with american airlines in his last year of the university. and he volunteered as a pilot, search and rescue mission doing civil patrol, air patrol in the florida straits because there were some cuban rafters dying at sea being eaten by sharks. that was -- he was just very happy doing that. and fulfilling his career. but on february 24th, 1996, the cuban gov...

>> you have inventive thoughts when you are in the netherlands. what else what i like to do? i would like come on my bucket list, to vote for the first woman president sometime in my lifetime, who come as it turns out, is a transgendered man. that is one thing i would like to do. i would like to live in rome for a year, and that one is seriously. i would like to climb everest, down, but not up. that is a caveat on that one. down, but not up. i would like to fly solo on a propeller plane across t...

Flooded by water from the rain. now, the chief of the community here tells me that one of the big concerns in the weeks to come will be simply food because people here rely on farming, on sweet potato to feeds their families. and they fear those little farms will have been destroyed by the rain and the foliage that has come down which will cause their crops to rot. so this is a stricken community thats already hard at work at trying to recover. but you just get a sense from this island, it reall...

Trying to recover. but you just get a sense from this island it really highlights how difficult it is for this island nation to communicate with the other islands. if somebody is hurt they need a propeller plane or a ship to try to get them to the main island to the main city where there is some electricity. again, communities that are accustomed to severe storms but, again and again you hear from people this was by far the worst cyclone they have ever seen. ivan watson, cnn, reporting from the ...