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The security threat. i imagine that that, the fact -- if you're just joining us, the news is there has been an explosion at hamad karzai airport, the kabul airport. that is a live picture on the right-hand side of our screen and you can see u.s. planes parked there where these evacuations have taken place from. barbara, i imagine the sad fact is an attack like this blocks, delays further evacuations. >> reporter: well, it may. right now the u.s. military remains in control of the airfield, monitoring and controlling both take-offs and landing of aircraft. that's an important fact. they will ha...

Experienced pilots come in so slow, dangerously slow at stall speed, and right up to san francisco international airport a an approach that requires quite a bit of attention as you come in here, alex. >> tom, let me ask you because i think a lot of people are under the impression that in situations like this especially with landings and take-offs, the airplane's on-board computer systems kick in at a certain point if you are in danger and that did not seem to be the case with this flight. do we know why there wasn't sort of an automatic response to the plane flying too low and too slow? >> the...

Turned out it spent one nano second upside down. but what people remember when they so something that horriveec. fire, smash and aircraft wobbly and holy cow. and that's why first reports are never as good or bad as they come in. >> that is an important point to make. what you are looking is a live shot from san francisco international where we have sewn the flights come in to the airport and landing. yet to see any take offs and two-run ways were reopened out of 4 and 2 are still shut down and clearly where the accident happen and that would be runway 2, 8, l. captain nash, i want to ask you ...

Luxor, egypt. i would imagine that the most difficult time is when you take off and when you land. so when you land what possibly could go wrong that would result in this. clive? >> well, i think it's the same as any aviation take offs and landings are the critical element of it and great care is taken on both of those particular parts of the flight. i think one of the most dangerous things for a hot air balloon in the landing phase is power line strikes and i don't know whether this is the cause of that. that would just be speculation, but that is one of the things that can cause problems. bi...