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This, is there some reason? >> i think there's always embarrassment on anything in our airspace the performance factors six exceed in our inventory. if that was the conclusion in this pentagon document, this thing ran rings around our f-18 super hornets that tried to chase this thing, it was briefly tracked on radar but it seems to be able to -- again it's a phrase from the document it's almost like it cloaked itself and became invisible. you'd think this was a science fiction if you weren't reading it in pentagon documents and we know now that the government took this very seriously, these th...

Intact. as it turned hard right shortly before going down just after taking off on a rainy and overcast day. listen to how one witness described what happened. >> when i heard this sound, the engine noise, really ugly noise. there was an engine on fire. it looked like the pilot saw all the houses and pulled hard right to avoid all the houses. to avoid more tragedy. it would have been a massacre. >> we do not know if the plane was in a controlled flight but it was operated by state airline cubana rented from a small charter company called global air. that is the same company that owned the plan...

Pilots, tammie jo shults, brought the plane down safely. she was a navy fighter pilot before. and so many were moved by these images. the pilot immediately going back into the cabin when they landed, hugging the passengers. martha raddatz tonight on the pilot, and how passengers are now describing her. >> reporter: as one of the first women to fly navy fighter jets, tammie jo shults had exactly the kind of training for just this kind of emergency. unflappable and deliberate, guiding her crippled jet in for a landing. >> yes, sir. we're single engine descending, have a fire. >> reporter: once s...

And i feel so lucky to have someone with that experience. >> reporter: as a teenager growing up in a ranch, she wanted to fly in the air force but were told there were no female pilots. she tried the navy and after a year she got in. saying in a book, i have finally broken into the flight club. she became an instructor and eventually selected again one of the first women to train on the hornet fighter jet. when her left engine blew out, little surprise she showed no fear. >> one of the first female f-18 fighter pilots, i expect this was a walk in the park for her. >> reporter: her extraordinar...

But there is another growing demographic of americans who are also running, veterans. lieutenant colonel maimy mcgrath checks both of those boxes. she was, in fact, the first female marine to fly an f-18 fighter jet on a combat mission. and she went on to fly 89 of them in both iraq and afghanistan. now she's running for a seat in kentucky's 6th congressional district against republican incumbent andy barr and fellow democrat and mayor of lexington, jim gray. amy mcgrath joins me now live from lexington. lieutenant colonel, thank you so much for being here. i really appreciate it. >> it's grea...