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Whether or not there was a problem with the airplane. if there is, if investigators can find out there's some sort of issue going on with the airplane, we have to know if it's a systemic problem or something that was just isolated to this particular air kracht. if it's systemic, you have a fleet of airplanes you have to correct. then of course with the pilot, we have to understand what in fact was going on that really led him to believe that there may not have been a perceived threat. he was able to handle whatever it was by requesting just altitude descents rather than declaring an emergency,...

Immediately donned his oxygen mask, declared an emergency and made an emergency descent. it would not have been proper at that juncture to request a lower altitude and then hold only 2,000 or 3,000 feet lower which would do the pilot and the passengers no good. but we don't know whether or not the problem he recognized was pressurization. it could have been an engine problem. because it's the engine that really controls the pressurization through bleed air into the aircraft. so if he was having an engine problem, he would have probably asked for a descent to a lower altitude, assess his situat...

Two f-15s scrambled to follow the jet. there was a distress call, a call about a problem on board. and renee marsh is "outfront." what are you learning? at first no one knew what the plane was and then they believed that the people were perhaps dead for a long time but it's this doesn't seem to be the case. >> the plane was flight with the pilot apparently unconscious. jay macon authorities told cnn they spotted what they believe is aircraft wreckage. the u.s. coast guard believes there were three people on board and tonight radio transmissions reveal the pilot was in trouble around an hour an...

A little bit more information in this fox news alert. the faa is telling us that the particular aircraft that we have been watching took off from rochester, new york, about 8:45

I have actually been on a plane before where this happened. they had a leaky window and nobody knew. i felt the euphoria. once i started feeling it, i looked down and saw my nail beds were blue. i said, something's not right. i talked to the flight attendant. she talked to the pilot. the pilot wasn't aware because the warning system wasn't working on the plane. we automatically dropped to 10,000 feet. everybody was okay. without adequate medical training there is no way those two passengers ever could have known to look for it. by the time they looked for it, it's too late. >> so you actually ...