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Inside the cockpit, the flight instructor had just passed out. inside the cockpit, the flight instructor had just passed out >> are they unconscious? >> he's leaning on my shoulder i'm trying to keep him up, but he keeps pulling down. unconscious? >> he's leaning on my shoulder. i'm trying to keep him >> have you landed any aircraft before with someone with the controls with you? >> no, i haven't >> reporter: max's response was literally fight or flight. >> you have to deal with the situation that you've been thrown in front of and you need to react that you've been thrown in front of and you ...

Max's response was fight or flight. >> you have to deal with it. it's a situation that you have been thrown in front of and you have to react. >> incredible. hi brought the plane down without a scratch. >> you have to show your kid that having issues like this you have to get through them. >> the instructor was rushed to the hospital. where he's in stable condition and max visited him. >> hero. >> good on him. >> yeah. we always -- i thought about what would i be able to do that. >> you would. >> you're my friend. you're supposed to say that. stay tuned. we continue to track hurricane

The real question is if this was iran's revolutionary guard corp, it was one of their missiles that brought the plane down, the president knows, the u.s. knows this is the most militant wing of the iranian security and military services and sometimes in the past more often than not they do go their own way. but is there proof of that is really the key question right now. and does it matter? because the u.s. position has been if it's one of these iranian proxy forces that the u.s. would still hold the iranian government responsible for any provocation against the united states or allies in the ...

>> all right. tom, i've totally got to let you go. back to our friends over on the nbc news network. thank you very much. always great to have you. ali velshi, let me go back to you and pick up there. you are on the ground in new york. where are you in relation to where this has happened, to trump tower -- >> yep. >> -- and have you gotten any more answers yet why this helicopter was where it was. >> no, but i am looking at the weather outside and the weather on the apps that tell pilots what's going on and it does look like the visibility was very, very low. the pilot of this helicopter was n...

Tonight from reagan airport. the pilots did exactly what they were supposed to do as far as getting the plane down, but they were alarmed by the language. >> reporter: that is the right procedure if you have a problem in the cockpit -- divert and get to the ground as soon as possible. experts concerned about the language that the pilot used to explain that diversion, david? >> unsettling for the rest of us if we were on the plane too thank you. we are also learning more about the young man who gave that family hope to deliver heart break again. timmothy pitzen disappeared nearly eight years ...