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They must be a wizard, somebody i would like to meet. i decided if i ever had the chance to go back to vegas, i'd check out la reve. watch the show once again. poke around backstage, ask some questions and see if i can get some answers. assuming i live through the flight. success. that was fun. no, i didn't have to pee. ♪ ♪ i took a road and wandered and i knew it ♪ ♪ i found a place where people laughed and put their hearts into it ♪ ♪ it ain't the job, it ain't the pay, no matter how you view it ♪ ♪ somebody's gotta do it i'm here in las vegas in

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...

A dc-9 is headed from dallas to toronto when the cabin and cockpit are filled with toxic smoke. the electrical systems shut down making it impossible to control the plane. >> the captain was faced with a 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. there is a normal take-off and flight 797 has a normal takeoff and climbed to cruising altitude. but about 2 1/2 hours into the journey, the plane experiences an electrical malfunction. >> i looked at the breaker and it wa...

>> almost out of fuel, the plane approaches the camoros islands off africa's east coast. as the plane descends, the hijackers fight the pilot for control of the plane. >> i said, "guys, this is finished now. we are all dead people now. let me do it my way." and decide -- i don't know how they did it, disengaged the autopilot. >> disengaged it? >> he did. >> from this -- >> from that control. >> right. >> and then, i disconnected the autopilot and then i had to start flying it myself. >> in the cabin, passengers start to panic. >> when the pilot first made the announcement that the plane was ou...

Were, at least those pilots were able to do their jobs without having to wrestle terrorists in the cockpit. >> that captain was under a different kind of stress than we've seen in these others. >> absolutely. he not only had the issues of having to put the airplane in the water, he had people on board that were trying to kill the airplane and everybody on board with it, including themselves. >> it's november 23rd, 1996. ethiopian airlines flight 961 from ethiopia's capital to nairobi, kenya, should be a routine two-hour flight. it turns out to be anything but. the pilot, captain leul abate, sa...