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Ground. i should be able to make it though. >> as we heard the aircraft in distress, both of us kind of looked at each other. that's when we progressively started getting worse. >> then, just across the horizon, gentry spots a flickering speck on his infrared camera and zeros in. >>| a small white light. you can discern more that it's an aircraft and it is becoming larger. >> there's a portion of the tape that you actually hear us comment and i believe i said is that he's going to make it. he's got it. >> he's got it from there. >> but they were wrong. >> all vehicles, we need you to roll imme...

Looked at each other. that's when we progressively started getting worse. >> then, just across the horizon, gentry spots a flickering speck on his infrared camera and zeros in. >>| a small white light. you can discern more that it's an aircraft and it is becoming larger. >> there's a portion of the tape that you actually hear us comment and i believe i said is that he's going to make it. he's got it. >> he's got it from there. >> but they were wrong. >> all vehicles, we need you to roll immediately. >> you guys do realize a single engine cessna heading straight for traffic on tampa's busy memo...

>> good morning. arctic cold has arrived. these your early morning low temperatures across the northern plains and upper midwest. minus 1 in bismarck. 21 in minneapolis. you can make out where this front is across illinois and portions of missouri. 40s in chicago and st. louis. that cold air will be spreading in. a good deal below average across much of the region here. 20 to 40 degrees below average. northern rockies, some spots don't get above zero at all. a frightening emergency landing aboard a small plane near houston. after making several attempts to land and circling the airport in sp...

A single engine cessna. you see the bright flash, slamming into a canal bank short of the runway. two tampa police officers on the helicopter patrol ahead the pilot's distress call and rushed to the scene. look at this. you can see one of the officers dragging the pilot away from that crash. it was fiery. the pilot reportedly is in stable condition suffered a few head and leg injuries. tampa's mayor, of course, as many people are, hailing both officers as heroes. >> hmm. unbelievable. >> yeah. quite a week on the money front. >> of course. >> the mega millions jackpot, hoards of people linin...

Fly a little single engine cessna, first fly the airplane. sometimes pilots are forgetting that? >> that is absolutely right. that is absolutely the first rule. as a pilot you will know if an airplane is the correct place at a correct speed everything is probably fine. it was very much about flying fundamentals. it was being handblown for proficiency on a beautiful day but it just got too slow. jon: you need airspeed to stay in the air, they did not have enough airspeed to keep the triple seven flying to the runway. the other is the air france crash. flying on autopilot, the autopilot disengag...