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The nose wheel only has two wheels on it. if one of those is blown, it puts a whrots of pressure on that remaining tire which would make it more difficult for the pilot to land that plane. they will land this thing on the longest runway to give they the most room possible to touch this thing down as slowly as they can. if it is the notes cone, to try and ease it down as lightly as possible as close to the middle line as they can get if for some reason the plane does make some kind of a move at the end. these things are very routine. the pilots go over these time and time again. but we are stil...

Felicia shakan, the sole survivor in 1987 in the crash of a northwest flight, crashed into a bridge in detroit. how could anybody survive something like this in the first place? and these two cases are not alone, we have seen children survive in several incidences. robert mark is a former pilot, author of jett line.com and anet hercins is with us, she was the sole survivor of a 1992 plane crash in vietnam. i believe she's on the phone with me now. can you hear me? >> yes. >> jane: this is the first time she has spoken publicly about this, it was very traumatic i. she lost her fiance in that cr...

Like a piece of laundry in the dryer, i reckon, and then i woke up, and everyone -- well, my fiance was dead. jane: robert, how does this happen that somebody can survive? we look at the wreckage from that plane, it is mind-boggling. >> it really is. and i think that it depends on your particular philosophy. some people might call it luck, other people might call it god. but statistically, no one can probably explain these anomalies. jane: we have pictures of this little dutch boy who survived. anet, i should point out you're dutch as well. there he is. he's said to be doing okay. has a couple...

Different block in that particular area. jamie: actually, we've also just learned, if we could ask you to stand by, robert, that the closest airport is austin birkstrom airport, and that is where small and large corporate and domestic airlines fly out and harris just got off the phone with that airport. >> what did you learn? >> basically that would be the airport closest for service for this plane. what i haven't been able to determine, if there was a takeoff or landing attempt that would have been happening at that airport. they're searching for that information right now. the gentleman -- a...

Considerable time, amount of time, but of course, that also may have meant that it caught some of the structure on fire as well. but again, a larger -- if it were an aircraft the size of a cirrus, that probably has about 70 gallons of fuel on board, that's certainly an intense fire, but it's not going to last that long on the fuel alone. i mean, the cessna 208, the caravan that you mentioned later on would carry a considerable alt of fuel more than that most likely. but again, if it was something, you know, destructively planned, i mean, it would have had considerably more i think than we saw....