WCAU NBC Nightly News September 5, 2014
Unfolded in the skies all the way down the eastern seaboard, out over the ocean across cuba before ending in jamaica as a privately owned plane, a t turboprop aircraft with a veteran pilot at the controls who was unresponsive. Radar systems lit up along the flight route. Fighter jets were scrambled. They reported back they could see the pilot slumped over and it became then a matter of waiting for it to run out of fuel and fall from the sky. Its where we begin tonight. Nbcs tom costello covers aviation for us and followed this story all day. Tom, good evening. Reporter hi, brian. Thats what ha...