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Questions trying to, everyone's trying to figure out right now? >> actually there will be a lot more questions than meets the eye because there have been many accidents like this in the past and as miles said, the previous accidents are why we have the arrester beds. good to think of them as boxes of concrete with sand inside. they'll look at the spoiler systems and the auto braking on the plane. this is a 737 700. they are pretty new the first ones flew in 19 the 8, see if the toe brakes and thrusters work. there's a lot of equipment on the plane the ntsb will want to look at in addition to t...

There is something called rester beds. >> it took a number of years to develop. they're not really too expensive. $3 million to $6 million to put in. but they're required, especially at airports like laguardia, midway, burbank. all those airports that have runway overruns before. some fatal. best to think of these as big boxes of cement with sand in the middle and the boxes are supposed to crumple so the airplane wheels go into them and crumple down and keep you from going into traffic like at midway or into flushing bay. and they have saved an amazing number of lives since they have been requ...

Country and they are literally, almost like quicksand if you will, and what happens is the plane hits those rester beds and that just immediately slows everything down. again, up front. i don't know exactly if that occurred here at laguardia on this runway but that is a new technology that they have been rolling out over the last ten years to slow down planes to slow them down when they are going off the end of the runway so that they can limit the damage and hopefully prevent any injuries or deaths. >> all right. let me go back to our safety expert anthony roman who is standing by. anthony, y...

Doesn't mean that there aren't any. just means that the individual i spoke with at the faa said so far they are unaware of any injuries. it looks like just from the pedestrian view here it looks like the plane came to rest and you may have some bumps and bruises but the plane, the fuselage looks intact no sign of fire there. it looks like this may have ended about as well as you hoped for a plane that goes off the end of the runway at laguardia. you can also make the point an candidly i'll add mitt right up front, i don't have a sense of where the plane has gone on off the end of the runway. t...