Runway Area News Today

The airbus a320, operated by the domestic carrier latam with more than 100 passengers and crew on board, continued along the runway with its undercarriage apparently immobilised and its right side dragging on the ground, sending up a trail of fire and smoke. the passengers and crew managed to escape the aircraft, still in shock and trying to come to terms with what had happened. the plane about to take off collided with a vehicle manned by firemen from the company. after this, theres been a full...

Translation: a plane about to take i off collided with a vehicle manned i by firemen from the company. after this, theres been a full response to the crisis and we have been able to mobilise 100 ambulances in metropolitan lima. two firefighters, members of the aeronautical fire brigade, were killed in the collision. 20 passengers were also injured. its not clear why the fire truck had entered the runway area. an investigation is under way. the peruvian authorities say theyre looking at what they...

For people. police will be working with the authorities in order to bring this to a close so people can actually be able to get on and to the travel that they were expecting during the christmas period. >> kitty logan is following this story from london. >> this is all still a mystery, 700 flights are due to take off from the airport today but some passengers will be still affected by the backlog for some time to come. it all started on wednesday evening. flights were stopped when a drone was sp...

>> melissa: britains second largest airport, gatwick, forced to shut down its runway for the second time after another report of a drone illegally in the runway area. lets go live in london with more on this. >> hi it, gatwick airport has reopened earlier today. it was previously closed around 36 hours. in the last couple of hours, as you mentioned, there has been a concern deciding of another drone in the area of the runway. around 700 flights were due to take off and land on friday, but those ...

They started the coordination process between tsa and other first responding organizations that would have implemented procedures agreed to and probably rehearsed ahead of time and practice, whether it was on the runway area, inside the terminal, in the concourse, aboard the plane or in a more public areas such as the baggage claim or outside the airport. >> jenna: i want to be kept for our viewers pay thank you very much, we will go back to you and just a moment. what we have learned in the las...

Both sides of the plane, he may have or she may have exited the plane on that side and came too close to the fire and the flames. as you know, its a very fluid and chaotic and panic situation when you have an emergency evacuation on a plane. oddly, as you know, if you take many airplane rides, it can take sometimes 20, 30 minutes to board and even longer to get off. but in an emergency planes are supposed to be able to be emptied within three minutes. so nobodys supposed to grab luggage. you are...

To identify where that might have come in. you know, is there some reason that somebody that was a passenger on that plane might be in the middle of a business dispute or marital dispute or something of that nature where someone might want to inconvenience them or hassle them in some way. when you have an anonymous phone threat, people can say anything, they could say that plane has a nuclear device on it and theres no way until you search it to know whether it does or not. as mary correctly poi...

Displaced runway area. it is the end of the runway. it is often -- it is the bit where you have touch anything d because the runway may not be strong enough or whatever, not geared for that. so, the plane definitely clearly made contact with the runway before the threshold which is the piano keys which is further down the runway. and in doing so either because of altitude, attitude of the aircraft, speed or whatever was going on in the cockpit at that time then it, of course, the tail split off....

when not if. president assad isnt listening, pressing a crackdown on the south keeping that city from south keeping that city from anti-government rebels. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com first some major international news tonight. a scary moment as the defense secretary leon panetta arrived to afghanistan. an afghan vehicle drove onto the runway area of a military base and set it afire. just as panettas plane was landing. another major security breach but pentagon officials sa...

Its just like much of new york. you never really get all of that much snow. its pretty much slush unless these are roads that are not well traveled. but out on the runway area and i was just taking a look through the windows a little while ago, you do already have a significant amount of accumulation and some of those poor guys working out there trying to deice, trying to load the bags, its tough work in this weather. >> okay. allan chernoff, thank you so much in new york. well check back with y...