CNNW CNN Newsroom March 17, 2014
Were headed north. This is that northern route thats been spoken of and were at 6,500 feet. The terrain here so mountainous were only 1500 feet above the ground. You can its daylight weve set up in this scenario. It would have been nighttime for these planes. These are the hazards you run up against. In many cases you are not flying over the mountains any more youre flying through them. That means mitchell here is flying manually and you can feel us banking and yanking as we literally try to find our way through the mountain passes. At the same time the aircraft is sending out all sorts of war...