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There should not be a knee-jerk reaction and reassess the pay the locator beacons are positioned. there are secondary systems. this is a perplexing case. >> sylvia, you spoke of a 1972 flight. remind us. >> this was a flight from anchorage, alaska to juneau. it was carrying two u.s. congressmen. it took off. the plane was planning to operate under visual flight rules. the weather was not conducive for that. the pilot took off and made brief contact with air traffic control. it continued on its way. it was a cessna. a lot smaller than a 777. the plane never arrived in anchorage. or in juneau. >...

As far as departures go at this hour. then, when we move to the noon hour, they will be up to 50% and again by 3:00, they say they will be 100%. we're talking about 3:00 eastern time, carol. >> maybe they will be back up to 100%. from a business standpoint and a p.r. standpoint, it is not great. you have everybody in all the airlines delayed or not even sitting on the tarmac. they wish they were. jetblue is getting all the grief today, in part, because they said, among the reasons why they did this reset was because of these new flight rules for flight crews. that's something that aviation exp...

Response. and lastly, you know, this is a really good tip. all those people we saw sleeping on the ground in the airport, what they recommend sometimes is buy a day pass to one of the lounges. you're a lot more comfortable. there is food. and they also have staff there. the lines are a lot shorter. and you may get through a lot quicker. and just -- wolf, one bit of news coming into us right before we came up here. jetblue. if you're on a jetblue flight, you might want to know, the airline is telling cnn they plan on reducing its operations totally by 5:00 p.m. eastern time. they're just stoppi...

The pilots were making a steady approach. what i would say about sfo is the approach is a fairly complicated approach. the crew would have been fatigued. they would have been coming to a relatively long day and the pilot is given visual flight rules. there is visibility in excess of five miles. but most pilots make these approaches with semi or fully automated systems. so the crew will have been fairly tired. the approach because the threshold is protruding out into the sea. the captain won't have good visual references in the

Impact on the stone embankment, one set of plan beilanding gear plane stabilizers, the tip of the tail, debris littering the runway. officials say there was no sign of trouble before the plane crashed. . the weather ideal, a clear day. all traffic using visual flight rules to land. pilots say landing at san francisco international can be tricky. this shows the final approach. the runway starting at the water's edge. two things they're looking at are the engines. asiana airlines saying both were in fine working order, but passengers did say they felt them add power to them just before that impa...