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There. >> just one blade propeller on a radial engine and, you know, these vintage planes are, and a person like harrison ford who loves aircraft so much they're labors of love and what you want to do everything you can to keep them flying well. i imagine it was meticulously taken care of. >> i want to bring in tmz's le lebudiar. >> we don't know specifics about his injuries. there were people on the scene said they saw lacerations on his face and some bleeding. we have video we just got in going up on the site in just a few minutes, but you touched on something that i think is interesting tha...

Especially in commercial and corporate aviation the airplanes are built really well, they have great system redundancy. so generally the broken link in the safety chain tends to be the pilot. especially in pilots or general aviation aircraft like what we have today with harrison ford. i think the first thing they're going to look at is this being a vintage airplane with a really old radial engine which is a circular engine, they're going to be looking at that fuel pump and anything else that might have made the engine seize up. i think hopefully with his background pilot error's not going to c...

Control, they did the right thing. we'll have to wait for more information, the ntsb is on it. we go from that one to the celebrity crash. miles, here's what i don't get. i know harrison ford is an experienced pilot. i read the briefing on it why fly the old planes? to the uninitiated, i say what do you think is going to happen you're flying this old thing, there are going to be problems is that naive? >> why drive an old ferrari. there are a lot of things that people -- >> you're on the ground. >> they're on ground miles. >> they go very fast. people with deep pockets and a taste for thrill a...

Conditions or what a pilot would typically call vfr conditions where they are using ground references for navigation but the weather was really bad. the visibility was low. there was mist, there was fog. and there is, of course, high terrain to the north and authority east of the airport. and that is a concern that they may have struck some of that high terrain. >> we are talking about no flight plan filed, no contact with air traffic controllers, took a long time for rescuers to get n we understand that there was a doctor in the area and that local community people came in and tried to help a...

Alaska has also a fair number of air crashes, just because they are -- so many planes are flying. bill: we are hearing, 8, perhap 9 people on board and i assume it includes a crew but i don't know that, based on your knowledge of the aircraft, how many people could be on board, jon. >> i think it depends on the configuration. i have flown on them, i have not flown one, but i have flown on them, and, it's a sizable aircraft and depending on the engine, they originally started with a piston-powered radial engine, and have moved up to turbo-prop conversions now, an engine that gives you more powe...