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Residential community that has built up around this airport because it's been there, as you said, since the early part of the 1900. >> it goes back to i think 1919 is what they first started flying around then and then really the real history there was the old douglas aircraft company. the predecessor company that made the md-80 which we saw at laguardia today. >> and you can see in this picture, if we put that back on the screen, you can see the aircraft there on the green, a flash of yellow there on the green and get a sense of how close it is to the street. how close it is to those residenc...

72-year-old father of five is doing fine and will make a full recovery. he is a pilot flying helicopters and airplanes including this military trainer from world war ii ii ii. this video is obtained by tmz. ford radioed the tower he was loosing speed and ability to guide the aircraft. and found the only patch of green n sea of houses landing on the eighth hole. >> we were hoping it would not hit the houses. >> reporter: the causes of the crash are under investigation and w they will focus on the plane built in the 1940's and production models are fuelled by the gasoline going to the engine

Passengers and five crew members and skidded into a fence just short of flushing bay. >> i knew we were going too fast to be landing. i am grateful. there was a higher power holding the plane from doing whatever it could have done. i am grateful. >> laura ingle is live from laguardia airport. hi. >> reporter: we just learned the runway involved in yesterday's incident just reopened about 30 minutes ago. meanwhile, cranes were in action with the md-80 aircraft lifted off the snow berm. it has been removed and it is in an american airlines hanger now. and that is where investigators

7,000 feet long 150 feet wide. it is more than sufficient to land this type of aircraft on it safely and stop with about 2,000 feet remaining once the aircraft comes to a full stop. however, i heard an earlier report that the aircraft was landing with somewhat of a tail wind. that changes everything. everything in making a safe landing relies on an aircraft making a stabilized approach. the md-80, for example, approaches its flight path for landing at about 200 miles an hour. it then lowers the flats partially. at about 5 miles that speed should have been slowed down to approximately 160 miles...

Side of the plane. on the left side, you can see the fire engines are putting chemical or water onto that plane to mitigate the damage from the left side of the wing. the pilot telling air traffic control that his left side was leaking as much as a thousand gallons of fuel. amazingly enough this is not the first time this has happened to an md-80 in march on that berm at la guardia airport. when you look at pictures we're now seeing from the opposite side of the airport as well. you can see just how close it came. that berm there clearly there to protect from this very incident or set of circu...