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Wheel was tweaked to the right. so, the gear, apparently comes down, but is malfunctioning. >> right. so, at that point maybe it's not fully down and locked and that's why they would have a red indication on the nose gear light instead of the green indication, which means normal normally three down and green what we usually see for a pre-landing checklist. that's probably why they went ahead and did the fly-by by the tower and the tower is using their binoculars and see what's going on. >> megyn: who would be advising them. when they drive by-- or do a fly-by because they want to give a better...

And we're hearing that they are reporting that the decide of that lear jet reads united states air force, which would be a good sign. these would be very well-trained pilots on board and we are getting jon scott, by the way, with us momentarily and in the meantime, i want to bring in dj frost, a commercial airline pilot with me now. dj, explain what you think is happening here? we don't know a lot other than it's believed to be an lear jet with up to eight passengers on board that's having some sort of landing gear problems and you heard trace describe it as the front wheel believed to be twea...

Of plane, megyn as jon pointed out. this is an lear jet. makes sense this is not the plane, that's affected. they want to give the tower a look what it's supposed to look like and retract the gear and give it one more look so if they do one more fly-by or possibly identify that this plane that's up there now burning fuel, keep in mind, depending how much fuel they have. they have time on their side and they don't want to land for a lot of fuel with the plane. and if it's heavy they might fly around for a while and consider maybe if this is the best option for airports. they've got some fuel an...

The pilot considering the problems they're having. what are the additional challenges posed by the fact that this is not a huge commercial jetliner? >> it's just that you don't know what's going to happen as these jet blue pilots did not. they didn't know whether their landing gear would collapse, in which case, you know, all of a sudden, the cockpit is going to be slamming to the ground and potentially, potentially, you know, snapping, snapping that aluminum fuselage. in this particular case, the landing gear held. that was a huge benefit to them as they tried to control that airplane. once t...

Belly and fly-by. generally if your gear is down and you're having problems, you don't mess with it. >> leave it down. >> megyn: is there danger flying with the gear down, danger to the aircraft? >> no, they would keep the speed down below acceptable limits there's a speed for every aircraft at which you can lower the gear. >> megyn: these are back now to live pictures above the scene. again, this is in illinois where the initial plane, a small plane is preparing for emergency landing after reporting there were problems with its landing gear, in particular with the front wheel of the landing g...