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Like another plane, for example. i remember covering a guy -- i want to say he was an air traffic -- a radio traffic reporter he put a plane down in the parking lot of a los angeles city college. he said we met before. remember that plane you covered in the los angeles parking lot? that was me. good job. >> if you can be carried away from it in this case you're a lucky guy. you can always repair the airplane. if you're going to lose an engine, it's going to be on takeoff. it find this really interesting. he knew exactly what to do. he communicated looked for the airport. of course, he wasn't g...

Saying they need very special care and you can't just put on any kind of part or do anything that you want, that you have to follow special aging aircraft protocol. so they're tricky and prevalent, but they do have an unfortunate higher incidents of crashes and problems. >> so mary, when you talk about this plane, and we're talking about obviously the ntsb will determine whether this was an intended landing, whether he was trying to land in a golf course, but we're talking about a very densely populated area, and to bring that plane down in a golf course, how challenging would that have been? ...

>> we had about four minutes to look out the windows and look for places. >> a road would be ideal, but there were so many power lines and the roads turned too quick or there cars, so he told us we needed to look for somewhere we needed to bring the plane down without people. >> everyone on board braces for the landing. >> i think we're going to be just fine. >> jonathan holds his infant son in one hand and starts recording video in the other. >> i was expecting just this smooth landing. >> my mind kind of seized up. i was thinking about jacob who was in the back and not in a seat belt. >> wel...

This plane was not brought down with isis. how are they so sure? >> well, we don't know the answer, but there's some logical things we can think of. you know, did the pilot perhaps make a may day call? and if he did, and we don't know, did he say that he was having some sort of mechanical trouble? and that he was going to have to bail out? the command centers that monitor all these combat missions, they get all the radar information back. they see the full picture. did they see something that tells them what happened to the plane? and since we don't know, there may be very good intelligence re...

Isis that the terrorist group is responsible for shooting down a jordanian military plane. the f-16 went down over the isis stronghold of raqqah in eastern syria, and it happened yesterday during a coalition air raid. the plane's pilot was later captured and is now being held hostage by the militants. this morning, the pilot's family is pleading with isis for his release. let me bring cnn's pentagon correspondent barbara starr to talk more. this. are officials saying how they know this plane wasn't shot down? >> good morning, randi. this is a part that's a mystery. late yesterday the top u.s. ...