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Forbid, seem to be coming forward, you go back to 2001 with the americanairlines crash over new york. and then you've really got two commuter incidents, a comair and continental airlines in 2006 and 2009 was the continental one. and now you have this one. so this is by far and away the most serious incident in the united states for some years. >> at least it's encouraging that so many people did manage to escape that plane. let's not lose sight of that. >> absolutely. and we've seen that before. we saw it with air france in toronto. if you remember the plane, way it landed, a-340, landed in te...

Checklist has me testing the brakes before i, you know, pull away from wherever the plane is tied down. that's job one. wouldn't they have done something like that here? >> well, i think we'll find out what happened because as soon as you turn the engine on, the black box, the data recorder starts activating. and they will have a complete picture of those few minute bees where the plane was moving, and they'll find out exactly what happened and what was forgotten or what, what broke. jon: yeah. looking at the plane, i mean, how much damage can a plane like that endure and still fly again? are ...