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Tonight when the nypd finally had to open up fifth avenue to traffic. it is a very different scene now. correspondent morgan radford was there all day. morgan, while this didn't get out of hand, organizers had to make some quick decisions as to some route changes and just where to put everybody in a finite city. >> reporter: brian, that's right. this frankly was a crowd larger than anyone really anticipated or expected. this wrapped bun two hours ago here in front of trump tower. it began on first avenue by the other trump tower in front of the united nations. and we've been traveling with the...

Air traffic control tells the crew they'll have to land on a different runway. because of a change in wind direction, the active runway is now runway 5. >> when there are last-minute changes such as runway changes or route changes, pilots don't like that, because they've already programmed the computer to fly a particular route to get to the airport. >> complicating things even more, air traffic control recommends a nonprecision approach, a type of manual landing the pilot has had very little experienced flying in this brand new computerized jet. >> nonprecision approaches do not have the elec...

Crew they'll have to land on a different runway. because of a change in wind direction, the active runway is now runway 5. >> when there are last-minute changes such as runway changes or route changes, pilots don't like that, because they've already programmed the computer to fly a particular route to get to the airport. >> complicating things even more, air traffic control recommends a nonprecision approach, a type of manual landing the pilot has had very little experience flying in this brand-new computer sized jet. >> nonprecision approaches do not have the electronic vertical guidance, and...

Crew they'll have to land on a different runway. because of a change in wind direction, the active runway is now runway 5. >> when there are last-minute changes such as runway changes or route changes, pilots don't like that, because they've already programmed the computer to fly a particular route to get to the airport. >> complicating things even more, air traffic control recommends a nonprecision approach, a type of manual landing the pilot has had very little experience flying in this brand-new computer sized jet. >> nonprecision approaches do not have the electronic vertical guidance, and...

Communicate back to the ground when the fuel -- the aircraft ran out of fuel and it crashed. >> miles, why does that not convince you? >> well, in the case of helios first of all, there were radio calls indicating there was difficulty before they lost consciousness. secondly why the route changes? if in fact this was the ghost plane scenario in theory it would have flied the pre-programmed route to beijing. why would it have made that securitious route to the south? i'm sure you can come up with a scenario where they were trying to come back to a field. >> richard, you read the map here richar...