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Reporting good breaking action. whether changes constantly. just because a few minutes before the breaking action was good doesn't mean it is going to be for you. most people don't know when airplanes when you land the brakes are on your pedals. it is also what you use to steer. if you put more pressure on one side or the other it can cause you to skid like that. it will be interesting to see what happened here. >> what about harrison ford flying this vintage world war ii plane. he loves to fly. not his first crash. >> some people might wonder it was an old plane. but someone like harrison for...

Saying they need very special care and you can't just put on any kind of part or do anything that you want, that you have to follow special aging aircraft protocol. so they're tricky and prevalent, but they do have an unfortunate higher incidents of crashes and problems. >> so mary, when you talk about this plane, and we're talking about obviously the ntsb will determine whether this was an intended landing, whether he was trying to land in a golf course, but we're talking about a very densely populated area, and to bring that plane down in a golf course, how challenging would that have been? ...

Don't work. >> that guy is obviously used to this kind of thing. but cnn aviation analyst says harrison ford's piloting skills prevented the situation from escalating to something much worse. >> what happens is once you have a -- if you have a single engine airplane and you have an engine failure, if you're a good pilot you set it up in a glide slope. you are trained how you can get the most amount of mileage out of it with no engine. he obviously set it up for a good ratio but he just couldn't make the airport again. apparently he was coming back to land. and for that golf course to be there ...

Witnesses helped ford out of the plane. he underwent surgery thursday night. the ucla medical center said he suffered a broken pelvis and elbow. he's expected to make a full recovery. honored tonight, we have with us lester holt who has covered a lot of these. what do you make of this? how did he respond? >> he responded the way pilots are trained, although i'm not a pilot. i grew up in a pilot family. one of the first lessons of flying is what if your engines quits in a single engine airplane. telling a student, you just lost an engine. what are you going to do now? they teach them to look fo...

Looks like a low-speed event which could be indicative of what allen was talking about with icing where she was seated the best part of that airplane the most intact part of that airplane appeared to be at the tail so she may very well crawled out from there. it looked like a piper seneca which is a very light twin engine airplane but very susceptible to ice. >> if it indeed is. we haven't heard there was any inclement weather but we do know they recorded engine problems. thank you very much les. good to have you on. go ahead, allen. >> i was going to say, poppy, i agree and because of weight ...