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St. louis downtown which is approximately, just looking right here, it is about 7,000 feet in length. lambert field, not only would it might have additional -- might have additional crash readiness capability, but it has runways that extend beyond 11,000 feet. so, you know, that's a significant added bit of pad, if you will, whenever you're doing a landing like this. you want to have as much space as you can. >> i got it. okay, so i'm not as familiar with my st. louis airports. this is the major st. louis airport, the st. louis lambert field airport. >> exactly. you've got lots of big, long ru...

Troubleshoot the problem and see if they can rectify it. there is really no good reason to rush these things until the fuel light starts to go on and tells you you're short on fuel. in which case you need to bring it down to the ground, one way or the other. >> in which case the fuel light going on would be a good thing, that means they don't have as much fuel, best to have a lighter plane, lessens perhaps the, i don't know, the likelihood of a fire in the wings. mike, if you are ems, if you are st. louis firefighters, you are rushing to lambert field, perhaps already there. >> they're already...

Indication, whether it is something else. obviously the pilot is going to spend a good amount of time trying to do that. it sounds like they made a decision to land at lambert st. louis, has a longer runway than the st. louis downtown airport that they were looking at. i guess they made their decision that they're going to land at lambert, which makes sense. if you have a landing gear issue or expecting to have an issue on touchdown, it makes sense to use the longest available runway in the area. right now they're probably either complete something checklists, making some final decisions, and ...

Looking at these closer pictures now of a plane, safe and sound on the ground this is that learjet 45. we have been watching for the last hour or so. jeff lee on the phone with me now from this airport. and, jeff, do we know what happened? do we know what the problem was? >> no. it was -- good afternoon, by the way. this is jeff. it was reported as some type of issue with their landing gear, about 1:30, after circling the st. louis region. and then most recently the lambert airport, landed without an incident about 1:30. what you're seeing now are our firefighting crews on stand by that respon...

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