Scatter Pattern News Today

Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Chased the plane. So that addresses what Josh Campbell was telling us a second ago. Two f15s chased the plane but were not involved in the crash. So, again, if this is to be believed, the f15s did not shoot that down that play. Lets bring in zack helm. He sat the Seatac Airport right new and joins me on the phone. Zack, i understand you saw this plane while it was airborne . I did not see the plane airborne, b...

>> its nighttime. were seeing flames in the forest. i was just going to ask you what the danger was. and we dont know the specifics of the speed at which the plane was flying, et cetera. but in a crash like that of how far, how wide a perimeter is endangered when a plane crashes like that. >> well, it depends on the angle of attack. if its going in more perpendicular, it can vary from even the 737 crash in colorado springs here was only a scatter pattern of about 50 feet wide, 50 by 60. so it co...

Audience. more important the distance the the airplanes are flying relative to the crowd. you wont see energy directed towards the crowd if the crowd is over here, youre not going to see the airplane doing an aerobatic maneuver towards the crowd. all that energy has to be directed parallel to the ground with the scatter pattern. it if comes apart in the air, none will head towards the crowd. >> but in europe the laws are not as strict which might have led to tragic results like ramstien. and in ...