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Some of the ships docked on the western side of manhattan for fleet week, come on over 'cause we love to take care of you, particularly today and this weekend for memorial day. >> that's right. let's toss it over to heather nauert. a near scary collision in the skies again? >> that's right. if you're traveling, this might make you nervous. two united airlines planes packed with passengers within seconds of crashing into one another. this happened shortly after takeoff from houston's airport. air traffic control telling the pilot of a plane heading to vancouver, canada, to make a right turn ins...

It's an easy day today. we'll probably be going home early. and then they turned on the tv, and they announced that president kennedy was assassinated. the next thing i knew, i was on a plane heading for dallas. >> two days later while covering lee harvey oswald's jail transfer in dallas, feelman watches as jack ruby shoots and kills oswald. >> that was my initiation into into the news business. >> 17 years later, feelman is again expecting an easy day. >> i said, well, we're going to get the president coming out. and it's going to be a piece of cake. i -- i would never use that term again, pi...

Hours up to beijing. and the triple 777 will carry extra fuel to take another 45 minutes or an hour in case of weather holding them up. if the last satellite was picked up some 7 hours into the flight that would have been at the very end of fuel capacity for this plane, would it not? >> that's correct. that's something to be considered. by law you have to have extra fuel on for weather and mechanical diversions. why was this plane heading in that direction at the end of its fuel exhaust shun. fuel -- fume exhaustion. bill: the plane loses oxygen an everyone on board dies and this

And i always remind myself of that not to jump to that conclusion. sometimes pilots are fighting amazing battles and we never hear about it. >> there is also now a report out of local media in the maldives that a number of eyewitnesss say they saw a plane heading in their direction. again these are eyewitness reports from the maldives. what do you make of it mary? >> i say go look. two scenarios, one a crime one a horrible accident. and if somebody saw something, it doesn't take long to rule it out. just like the fisherman's story, they saw wreckage there. go check it out. about four hours int...

Who was just trying to take down the plane, why they didn't just put anyti put it in the ocean and why they took it in the other direction. on everything on this story we learn a little bit but have more questions. i'm still kind of stumped myself. >> mary, the whole suicide thing you say based on past incidents of that it doesn't fit any kind of profile. >> no. i'm not surprised they didn't find anything at the pilots's homes. i've worked on many cases where the pilots were suspect. it turned out to be a mechanical and horrible problem. and i have a saying myself, sometimes an erratic flight ...