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Bangs and in touch weekly senior editor kim sarafin. obviously a world war ii plane old, got to worry about the condition of it. but number two, had this 1999 crash of a helicopter and then in 2000 he had a plane go off the runway. so now this is three instances where he's had issues with flying. we often hear it's pilot error. you think there's any issues here? >> well one thing about harrison ford in the hollywood aviation community he probably has the best reputation. he's got over 4,000 flight hours. he's been licensed for 20 years. he's flown jets. he owns a jet. i mean, harrison has a lo...

Harrison ford in the hollywood aviation community he probably has the best reputation. he's got over 4,000 flight hours. he's been licensed for 20 years. he's flown jets. he owns a jet. i mean, harrison has a lot of respect from people in the aviation community. so i would think that most likely with this being a very old world war ii vintage primary trainer, it's called a ryan pt-22. i think the first thing we want to find out did the engine quit, was it mechanical failure. we had reports from people on the scene that they heard the engine quit and harrison ford made that emergency call to th...

The bodies weren't wearing life vests. can you read anything into that? >> not really. you could say the plane fell suddenly which obviously it did if the wreg age is not that far from the last contact. so that means there wasn't any time to get people ready for splash down. and i think the fact that the wreckage on the surface is not too far from where the last contact is means the plane fell fairly suddenly. there's been a lot of talk about stall. stall is an aerodynamic. it doesn't mean the engine quit. it means the plane loses air lift. it looks like a stall because the wreckage is so clos...

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Found the wreckage and called for help. they still can't believe they stumbled upon it. >> i was blown away that a plane would be in canyon. when you fly you want a place to land. >> they are looking what caused the crash. one eyewitness said the plane flew into a small canyon area and didn't have the horsepower to kloo climb back out. >> florida, a vintage plane making an emergency landing in st. petersburg in the middle of a busy highway. >> make a left and saw them stopping in the distance, looked right and plane heading towards me. it just scratched the bumper. >> the plane is one of those...