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You don't know really what's going to happen after that. you could see some sparks. >> take a better look the at the gear. >> reporter: let's listen to it. here is the helicopter pilot. gentlema yeah, trace, he's going to do another fly by to look at the gear and experts are assessing what we're seeing and advising the pilot. >> reporter: yeah, yeah and the thing here, megyn, what they do, they he do a fly by. they went by the tower once and they deemed it not safe to land on those landing gears. so, they're going to go around again, you saw them retract the gear, now, he we talked about the f...

A look at our local reporters who are covering the situation? would they normally shut down the airport? >> yeah, oh, yeah. they would do that now. again, it will be probably a joint decision between the f.a.a., the tower, and the pilot. i mean, for instance, if i were in a place like this and circling new york i'd probably want to go to stuart. the stuart airport north of new york city has an enormous runway, i think it's 13,000 feet long or something like that. >> megyn: let's take a listen to the local pilot. >> and the nose gear, none of his underbelly tanks are going to touch the ground i...

In a downpour i would think. >> megyn: what about the cross winds that you pilots talk about? >> well, they'll line it up. i mean, you always land and take off into the wind. so, which ever runway-- whichever runway they're actively using probably the one most aligned with the wind. they wouldn't want to do this in a significant cross-wind. in that case they'd probably choose different airports lined up with the wind direction. >> megyn: we were talking about aerodynamic braking, what does that mean? >> they're simply using, you're getting the plane on the ground and letting the air speed blee...

Now cheap electricity. if you can make electricity more expensive then it automatic-- if you can't subsidize solar panels into being competitive, what you can do is do the inverse, you can make coal so expensive that solar panels and other alternative sources of energy are the same price. >> megyn: it's like with -- broccoli were like five cents a head and beef were $50 a pound different choices at the supermarket. >> not me, but normal people. >> megyn: that's a great point and by the end of the show i will have physical proof of chris stirewalt's love for the cow. >> that's not cool and i'll...

Force on the side of it. >> oh, yeah, they take the high ranking officers around the country to go to bases for inspections, things like that. and it's a normal part of the air force. it's a normal branch that does these things. >> megyn: when, if the problem is simply with the front wheel of the landing gear, is there a way of not putting that down, but putting the rest of the landing gear down or would that cause more harm than good? >> no, they'll just go ahead and put it down normally. i mean, if they can do -- i'm not really familiar as far as the annual gear extension within the lear jet...