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Coming in, did he or she hit that runway early enough? or did they hit it too late? and as a result, didn't have enough runway space at the end? but the chances are -- >> did we lose tom there? sounds like we may have lost tom on the audio there. that's live footage right now from the runway, if you're just joining us, laguardia airport, where the charter plane, the 737 that flies governor of indiana mike pence, of course, the republican v.p., just skidded off the runway during a rough landing. you can see there, the plane up in the upper left hand corner of that screen, that grassy field ther...

>> keir simmons, we will let you go and continue your reporting. obviously a continuing and breaking news situation there. secretary of state john kerry in paris today met with french president hollande. after hollande had called international response to isis incoherent and divided in his speech yesterday. the french in general are dismayed over what is widely considered to be a defensive reaction by president obama yesterday. >> reporter: how could the u.s. expectations of the west be so wrong? >> i disagree we didn't know they had this capacity. we certainly -- >> reporter: that they coul...

Hybrid explosive, that means ones that ripped as jimmy was saying. it opens up the side of an airplane, the zipper effect. doesn't take much explosives. if they wanted to make sure the plane went down, they could get it around security and have a baggage handler simply put it in the tail of the plane, use a lot of explosives to make sure the plane came down. weather whether it was a vapor or barometric switch i don't think we'll ever know. i have to emphasize how easy this is once you've got staff on the ground to get a bomb on and blow a plane up. i mean, you don't need a suicide bomber. you ...

There's still a person who's in critical condition. this plane is an older plane, from the 1950s, a hawker hunter jet airplane. the pilot just unable to maneuver, to pull the plane up in time, and really just some horrific video coming out of this. people filming it. as you see, there's that moment of impact, there's a large fire ball that goes up. paramedics on the scene say that the majority of those casualties were people in their cars, traveling on that highway. it has been closed. and the investigation right now to determine exactly what happened and how this could happen. >> horrible sit...

This is a simulator, we don't allow that to happen. >> richard, you and i were watching that. you had the same situation in simulators. >> the instructor will not even countenance the idea. they don't even want to think about it. don't want to try it. not only that, there have been times in the simulator i got into trouble and the instructor won't just switch it back. he'll take the controls, and they'll fly it out. it's a mental blockage. they dare not go to the idea that this isn't real. >> ron, it's interesting. is it possible once the flight data recorder is found, i mean, if this co-pilot...