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Course for this plane. can you tell us anything about the safety record? >> well, yeah, they had a pretty troubled history, actually, when it comes to the ability of private pilot to maintain and fly this sophisticated aircraft. there is a lot of loss of control-type accidents. the structure and integrity of the aircraft itself is reliable and always has been. the french military uses it extensively. it has a great history for structural and mechanical background but the pilot's ability to maintain and keep up, that's where they suffered a little bit. they started these safety similar narcoti ...

Aid worker to become infected during the outbreak, estimated to have killed more than 2,000 people in west africa. a search operation resuming earlier today. crews are trying to find the wreckage of a small plane that is believed to have crashed off the coast of jamaica after traveling some 1700 miles under mysterious circumstances. authorities lost contact with the aircraft shortly after it took off from rochester yesterday en route to naples, florida. two u.s. fighter jets were dispatched. they say the pilot was slumped over at the controls on board was a prominent new york couple, larry g...

Well, good morning. i know the morning time is all so early, and i'm thinking 6:00 a.m. if you're on the west coast, you're a night owl. >> this is the middle of the night. >> i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge. it is 6:00 in the morning. and this is "new day saturday." great to be with you. >> so good to have you here. >> thank you very much. >> of course, of course. >> let's get going. we're going to begin, unfortunately, with what is sad news. a search at sea. it's under way right now for a single engine aircraft lost in the caribbean. after its pilot stopped responding to air traffic ...

Lower. >> we need to descend be down to 180. we have an indication that is not correct in the plane. >> maintain level 250. >> we need to get lower. >> working on that. >> about an hour and 15 minutes after takeoff, the pilot stopped responding to radio calls. u.s. military f-15s tracked it along the east coast of florida. one fighter pilot looked through the window. >> i can see the head rising and falling. right before i left, the first time we could see he was not breathing. >> the plane's windows frosted. both signs the pressure may have escaped leaving the pilot without enough oxygen to s...

Feet the human body doesn't have enough air to survive. when you're at 28,000 feet, you have three minutes or so of useful consciousness and after that you pass out and what you saw unfold might happen. >> all right. david, this type of aircraft, the tbm 900, you say it can go as high up as 40,000 feet so how advanced is the pressure system? >> it's very advanced. it was just recently changed from 2014 that did a lot of work with improving the pressurization so they can get an two 1,000 feet. but the differential, pressure differential from the outside to the inside is really what they worked ...