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No-man's land. too far to go back or forward. when the plane meets the water, there are violent consequences. the aircraft ends up in pieces. miraculously, everyone on board survives. over the caribbean sea, a dc-9 has had a staggering chain reaction of bad weather and bad luck, runs out of fuel. the violent impact kills 23 of 63 on board. and in the most famous case, a jet has the misfortune of running into a flock of canada geese. all on board survive. what's the takeaway? if your plane runs into a situation where it may have to ditch, you want the right person in the cockpit making sound de...

>> as far as an accident being a chain of events, this definitely was it. >> on the ground, captain dewitt says he confirms he has enough fuel to make it not only to his destination but also to an alternate airport in case of a diversion. standard for all commercial flights. he goes through his equipment checklist and discovers the cockpit's p.a. system isn't working. but that's not required. at 11:14 a.m., the flight is cleared for takeoff. the dc-9 is designed for short, frequent flights. at nearly 1,700 miles, the route from new york to st. martin will stretch this aircraft to its limit. as...

There are officials searching through the ruins of sunday's mid-air crash and found 15 more people dead on the ground. >> labor day weekend 1986 more than a mile above cerritos, a suburb of los angeles, a piper archer smashes into aeromexico flight 498, a dc-9. the top of the piper is sheered off, instantly killing all three passengers aboard, a middle-aged couple and their adult daughter. in the crash over san diego a -- eight years earlier, the larger plane, psa flight 182, loses sight of a much smaller cessna, and slams into it from behind. over cerritos, the piper pilot doesn't realize he ...

And inform my mother that my father's plane had crashed. and i told him that couldn't be true, because he was the best pilot. >> the outgrowth of it was a very strong commitment by piedmont airlines to be involved in to the traffic collision avoidance system, and some years later they were one of the first frk, if not the first, airlines to fly with an active tcas system on board. >> six years later, betty barrett is on board a charter jet when it collides with a dc-9 over france. all 68 on the dc-9 perish. everyone on betty's plane survives. >> my father was sitting in the aisle seat, and i w...

It was a small wedding but it's incredibly emotional not to be there. >> reporter: this winter has been so bad for travelers and it's cost them big. nearly $3 billion this season alone. brianna? >> sunlen serfaty, thank you. chad myers is in our severe weather center. chad, why are so many airports still backed up. sunlen called it the hangover. >> you know, it is. because all of the pilots that are there may not be with the equipment that they need to fly. pilots are assigned and classified and qualified on certain planes. a he if a dc-9 is sitting there and you've got an md-88 pilot there, t...