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Was originally built with. and there's a look at what looks to be the original raidual engine, the piston engine. you can see that in the flying picture we just had up, it's got a much more narrow nose. that's because it apparently had that texas turbine conversion kit put on it, and you can see that it's getting ready to land or maybe it just took off from its wheels. this is an amphibious aircraft t. can lapped on the notes or if the pilot chooses he can drop the wheels and land on a hard surface, on a run way. it's a versatile aircraft and that's why it's so popular in alaska. getting back ...

And there is still a lot of near collisions where people are following visual flight rules. for example, everyone remembers the mid air over new york with the helicopter and fix the wing over the hudson. they were following visual flight rules. meaning they were seeing avoiding. that doesn't work. the airport is still most dangerous part. but once you're in the open skies, there is a lot of room for our nation's 239,000 airplanes. the problem is they try to funnel into 460 airports that are commercial use airports. and that's the biggest concern. so as soon as you're up to flight level, you ca...

They were both flying in an area known as the hudson river vfr corridor between new york and new jersey. has the faa made any changes to the rules for this air space, which is really crowded? >> it really is. and we did get new rules, the faa established special flight rules to that area in november of last year that will provide better spation of aircraft over that air space, the new flight rules were only previously recommended but not mandatory, now all pilots must maintain a speed of 140 knots or less, turn on an anticollision and aircraft position light, announce her position on specific ...

Danger zone. you can see it extends to newfoundland and canada. this is where volcanic ash is rampant. planes are few and far between. some airlines the danger is exaggerated by civil aviation authorities. the blue lines here, see those? that's normal trans atlantic air routes. these ones here. they haven't been normal for six days now. you can see most of southern europe, most of it except for this, is in the clear. most of france, all of france is in the clear. scotland is actually okay today. spain is where a british warship picked up 300 stranded civilians today along with 300 british troo...

They were traveling at about 12,000 feet, and usually using visual flight rules rather than radar or sensitive instruments. so i think given the news that the dutch haven't found anything, aviation officials all over europe will be privy to that information and they'll make their own decision in the future not, i think, based just on the dutch word for what they found on the test. they'll probably take into consideration the german results as well. but i'm not so sure that they'll be convinced that it is safe to fly because there are scientific planes still going up every day, turboprops, who ...