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Controller, you don't necessarily have to have a transponder. but if you're going to operate anywhere in controlled air space, you have to have permission to operate in that air space. you can't just fly into it without permission. >> the dc-9 crew believed they were in protected air space, and they were. but unbeknownst to them, the piper strayed into their air space. >> the general aviation airplane struck the tail, taking off the vertical and horizontal stabilizers, literally the back of the airplane, it rendered it uncontrollable. the dc rolled and inverted, there's a famous picture of tha...

The news from california keeps getting worse. officials are searching through the ruins of the crash, found 15 more people dead on the ground. >> labor day weekend, 1986. more than a mile above a suburb of los angeles, a piper crashes into a dc-9, a middle aged couple and their adult daughter, in the crash over san diego, 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 strayed into controlled air space surrounding lax, los angeles international airport. >> when flying in ...

Another flight has a mechanical problem and ends up in 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 onboard 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 onboard. and in the most famous case, a jet has the misfortune of running into a flock of canada geese. all onboard survive. what's the takeaway? if your plane runs into a situation where you have to ditch, you wan...

A dc-9 is heading from dallas to toronto when the cabin and cockpit are suddenly filled with toxic smoke. the electrical systems shut down, making it nearly impossible to control the plane. >> the captain was faced with a unbelievably difficult task. >> barely able to see through the thick smoke, the pilot tries to get the plane back on the ground, but passengers are already succumbing to smoke inhalation. june 2, 1983. air canada flight 797 has a normal take-off and climbed to cruising altitude, but about 2 1/2 hours into the journey, the plane experiences an electrical malfunction. >> i look...

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