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We spoke to travis ludlow, a teenagerfrom buckinghamshire flying solo around the world. he's aiming to become the youngest pilot to complete the mission in a single engine aircraft. jo black has been finding out how he's getting on. imagine having views like these all to yourself. this is what flying around the world looks like. three weeks ago, travis ludlow left the uk to begin a world record attempt and fulfil his boyhood dream. it has been such _ fulfil his boyhood dream. it has been such a — fulfil his boyhood dream. it has been such a great _ fulfil his boyhood dream. it has been such ...

Investigator. do you know anything about it or the scattered details that i just reported. what would you be looking for? >> obviously, national trance sayings saved board is going to go from their center or the office: f.a.a. is probably on scene, local f.a.a. we don't know much. it was a twin engine aircraft, it took off. twin engine aircraft, six people, light plane. one. critical things, and of course, i'm only speculating, ed, a loss of engine on takeoff. we don't know the facts and fortunately it appears that the pilot was able to avoid the post office and the walmart. but a twin engine ...

O'brien who told me what he thinks could have caused the crash. >> if something did in fact happen mechanically to the aircraft immediately after it took off, in that that the crew was in the clouds, situational awareness becomes more of a challenge. and this is a single pilot. perfectly legal to fly the single pilot. but when things happen with a twin engine aircraft, let's say an engine failed on departure, you have to do a plot of things quickly, correctly and compounded with that, would be bad weather. it did veer to the left and only gained ality duty altitude to . and so if there was som...

>> it's a twin engine. it's the most important thing you need to take away from this. because one of the things you think about is an engine failure, but if you lose one engine with a twin engine aircraft, you're still able to fly. so this is a safe turbine helicopter. runs on jet akerosene fuel. it's a workhorse in executive transportation. these types of helicopters are not used typically by the sightseeing operations in new york city. and i think we've pretty well established that this was not a sightseeing run at this point. >> yep. >> it's a safe twin engine aircraft. it takes engine fail...

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