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Shoot this, before they even try and land. >> megyn: but what about some pilot, air force pilot, on, one presumes that the pilot of the lear jet has sufficient experience, it it can never hurt to get a second opinion? >> sure, that's why you'd rather talk to maintenance personnel and not just another pilot, but a maintenance personnel could actually look up things in a manual, look up past precedent as far as something that happened before on the airport and what could they have done differently and they can do something to trouble shoot before they attempt to make an emergency landing in st. ...

Tower a look and better analysis for the actual pilot on board the affected plane, than he can make a better decision and process better. >> megyn: and i don't know, are you familiar with kahokia, illinois, obviously it's not o'hare, it's a smaller rural part of illinois from the sound of it and there could be advantages it landing the aircraft there as opposed to in st. louis i want to bring our viewers just joining us up to speed on what we know. appears a small jet having landing gear trouble. the front wheel tweaked to the right and that the plane could possibly attempt it land on its back...

They're running the checklists and making sure that everything has been done that they need to do and it's the bottom line, as long as you're not on fire and the your flight controls are working, everything is pretty much under control at this point. so, that that's the only thing, just making sure that everything has been covered in the checklist and that they do have a plan. and that's a plan that's not only for the approach and landing, but also what to do after they land and possibly an evacuation could come after that. >> megyn: jon? >> and also, dj, probably asking the passengers to move...

Tweaked in a different direction than is normal. this landing gear on this air force plane all appears to be in fine working order. but again, the signals are, this guy is going by, retracting landing gear, dropping it and then coming by again. and, but the helicopter pilot said he thinks there's also another plane out there, that could be burning off fuel, getting ready for its landing, and that this air force plane may have been up there as kind of a reconnaissance plane to take a look at the lear jet with eight people on board. very fluid and clear and want today throw that into the mix and...

We saw it a couple of times and now we're told from ktvi in st. louis that that's not the affected plane, the one that reads united states airport on the side. that there is an lear jet in danger, out a ways and we're waiting for information on that. and as we take a look at the emergency crews who are on the ground awaiting the affected plane, and its possible possible landing gear in kahokia, illinois. we're not certain whether this plane that's affected will in fact attempt to touch down in illinois or might perhaps go to st. louis. jon scott, who is a pilot in addition to a fox news anchor...