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A dc-9 is heading from dallas to toronto when the cabin and cockpit are suddenly filled with toxic smoke. the electrical systems shut down, making it nearly impossible to control the plane. >> the captain was faced with a unbelievably difficult task. >> barely able to see through the thick smoke, the pilot tries to get the plane back on the ground, but passengers are already succumbing to smoke inhalation. june 2, 1983. air canada flight 797 has a normal take-off and climbed to cruising altitude, but about 2 1/2 hours into the journey, the plane experiences an electrical malfunction. >> i look...

It was out. you are allowed one reset so i pushed it, but it didn't move. so, i didn't consider that a reset. >> the captain was at the controls that day. >> like the old days. >> for the first time in decades, he is back in the cockpit of a dc-9 at the space museum in ottawa. the breakers are connected to the lavatory in the back of the plane. once they pop out, they cut the flow of electricity to the lavatory motor. >> the crew responded to that appropriately. there was a problem there, and they left the circuit breakers then extended or popped so that it would deprive power to that componen...

People and amount of fuel? >> we don't have time. it's getting worse, sir. >> you could definitely feel when we started to descend because it was a real dramatic, quick decline. i definitely questioned whether or not we would make it safely to the ground. that's when my fear was probably peaked. >> the crew is completely relying on air traffic control to guide him down to the airport. >> roger, you are 14 miles southeast of the airport. continue your left turn. >> taking you to the field. >> he would tell me to turn right until he told me to stop. >> he was faced with not being able to see his...

People who produce the gasoline and the natural gas he's talking about. they do this regularly. i mean, they have eight agencies trying to figure out how to stop the natural gas companies from using fracking, the technique by which they produce an enormous breakthrough in natural gas, which brought the price of natural gas down from $797 a unit to $205 f. we had the same reduction in gasoline twould be $1.13 a gallon. i am in favor of following the same pattedern with natural gas, where we have increased production and lowered prices as a scwens? >> the question of the sanctions gains the iran...

A dc-9 is headed from dallas to toronto when the cabin and cockpit are suddenly filled with toxic smoke. the electrical systems shut down making it nearly impossible to control the plane. >> the captain was faced with a unbelievably difficult task. >> barely able to see through the thick smoke, the pilot tries to get the plane back on the ground, but passengers are already succumbing to smoke inhalation. june 2, 1983. air canada flight 797 has a normal takeoff and climbed to cruising altitude, but about 2 1/2 hours into the journey, the plane experiences an electrical malfunction. >> i looked ...