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Vicinity of the tel aviv airport. as pilot of the plane and a company, delta had made a decision that it was not safe for the plane to land. we were initially told we were heading back to paris for a five-hour window when they would reassess the security situation. that then became quite a few hours longer than that, and as you know, there's now a 24-hour stay on any american-u.s.-based carrier heading into israel. wolf? >> john vauss, we're having a little difficulty with your line but we got the gist of your point, at least you're safe and sound in pair ritz right now. john vauss was on that...

Again. we can tell you the faa, wolf, will be reconsidering the ban after 24 hours. >> rene marsh, good questions indeed. cnn's john vauss was on that delta flight 468 from the new york's john f. kennedy airport to tel aviv when it was diverted to paris. john is joining us on the phone right now. what happened? walk us through your experience on that delta flight. >> wolf, ben gurion airport in tel aviv. it was all very standard up till just after the -- up till the last hour as we were coming pretty much on final approach coming into tel aviv when the captain got on the inflight announcement ...

Losing his grip? cnn is now inside the middle of this unprecedented upheaval, a country that suppressed journalists and its people with an iron fist until now. how will the fate of a dictator impact your world? hello and welcome to our viewers from around the world to cnn special report on the uprising in libya. i'm don lemon. >> i'm john vauss. ominous silence in tripoli. one man senses something big is going to happen. >> moammar gadhafi's son proclaimed the protests united and the people united behind the regime. time will tell if the rest of the world isn't waiting. >> u.n. security counci...

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Question, he said that he thought that they can hold on. they can continue. he said look at the situations in sudan, for example, look at the situation in algeria. he made it sound as if they believe firmly that they can continue to hold on, they can build some kind of bridges, that somehow they can make all this better. but no. the strange thing about tripoli right now is it's much quieter than it would be normally and not a city that's -- that you can see it seething with anger and the answer for that is probably because beyond where we are right now and the police check points and the young...