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Steve, thank you. jamie: bill you said jamie, imagine this. i don't want to imagine it. too terrifying for me captured on a control tower recording. a pilot passing out, his wife, with zero flying experience, she has to take the controls, julie heyden, with ktvr in denver, tells us the story. >> clear to be... >> reporter: he and his wife were flying a plane from san bernardino to the colorado springs airport and the longmont based faa controller, with 22 years experience realized something was wrong with the pilot. >> i think he might be experiencing hypoxia. >> reporter: no response and the ...

>> shepard: passengers on board a flight over southeast asia are now telling their stories after the plane's engine caught fire right in the middle of the flight earlier this morning. it happened on a trip from singapore to the indonesian capital of jakarta. we're told 20 minutes into the thing, there were two sharp bangs, and then violent shaking all over the jet before the pilots announced "we're turning around." then the passengers say all the lights went out. they smelled smoke in the cabin. it then filled up with smoke. as the story goes, just about everybody on board started praying toge...

Didn't get anything from the flight recorders either. so it's still in progress. this will take a while to get to the bottom of it. >> jeanne, finally, does the age of a plane really make a difference? can an older plane with regular inspections potentially fly forever? >> reporter: they can't fly forever but for quite a long time, and they don't judge their age by the number of years they've been in the air. what they judge them by is the number of operations they've conducted. how many times they have landed and taken off, because during takeoff and landing there is compression and decompres...

Breaking news, hurricane earl, category 4 storm, winds nearly 135 miles an hour, approaching the koist of north carolina, threatening much of the eastern shore this weekend, mainly friday, saturday. as we told you, mandatory evacuations already under way in some areas. chad myers has the latest. what have we learned? >> big storm, literally. could be bigger at the 11:00 update. there is earl, fiona and now gaston, who did a lot of damage around richmond, virginia, six years ago. remember, they do recycle the names. it's not a new name every year. if it's not a damaging storm that caused a lot ...

Federal policymakers left the key interest rates unchange. worried about the economy, they take the smaller step to recovery. wall street has been pretty much this way across the board with red arrows with reaction on the day. the dow is now down by 32 points. we continue to follow developments of the crash of a small plane in a remote part of southwest alaska. authorities say nine people were on board the plane and there has been confirmed five fatality. on board were former alaska senator ted stevens and former nasa administrator sean o'keefe. right now, new york city's transportation offi...