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I'm you. >> more than three years after a spectacular flame-out in the 2010 delaware senate race, tea party darling, christine o'donnell is declaring victory. not for herself but for the movement that catapulted her into a national race. and in an interview with the delaware news journal yesterday o'donnell announced moderate republicans and rye know rye knows are extinct and candidates are more understanding. i think the movement has been very successful. by way of proof, she offered even people on msnbc talk about deficit spending and the economy. yes, the tea party movement has cannibalized...

>> what i just really would love to get a sense of is, as mitch is going through this, if he could just talk us through just how difficult it is to enter the glide. obviously when the engines flame out, run out of fuel, what he's doing when he's entering the glide. what speed he's coming back to for maximum glide efficiency. just the talk down of altitude. how quick it is. as he's flaring to get on to the ocean, all those sort of type of sound bites would be really useful just to give the viewers a sense of how difficult this really is. >> you want me to kill the fuel? or are you going to just...

Simultaneously. they're drawing off of separate fuel tanks. usually the left engine goes first. either in the process of the flame-out of the one engine, you would have had an electrical disturbance. or this windmill device drops out of the plane. it's basically a tur -- turbine. that would cause some sort of voltage distur dance or pike. that could be reawakened the transmission enough to say, hello. >> i think this is what the french satellite saw on sunday. this is what we now agree could be a possible debris field. miles o'brien, you're saying wow, wow, why? >> that's not just an isolated ...

One of the potential explanations that have is that as the plane runs out of gas, runs out of fuel, both engines don't quit at the same time. one will quit and then the other one will quit. if there were a scenario where the -- what happens, of course, when you lose one engine is the electrical bus distribution changes. generating system changes. that could have caused some sort of electrical spike which could have caused this device to try to wake up and check in and perhaps by the time the, you know, the return handshake were to occur, it was unable to do so. i'm getting beyond my technical ...

Everybody was with me. >> we had things to do. and i think that makes a big difference. i've always felt that certainly the flight attendants and passengers in back would have had a lot more fear than us because they had nothing to do. >> water ditchings are rare, but there have been several more than just flight 1549 and a.l.m. 980. january 2002, a boeing 737 operated by garuda indonesia airways flies into severe thunderstorms, and both engines flame out. after three unsuccessful attempts to restart them, the pilot ditches in the shallow section of an indonesian river. 59 on board survive. on...