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It just took off for vegas which means this thing was loaded for bear. it's got enough fuel on this thing to fly for the better part of 11 or 12 hours across the atlantic, across the united states to land in vegas. so if, in fact, this landing gear is down this plane could be up there for quite some time because the last thing you want to do is land a plane that's this heavy on an airport. i mean, the 747s need a long airport to land on to begin with much less having a bad landing gear on a 747 trying to land, leah. this thing is, i mean, this is tricky. leah: yeah. this is really really trick...

Some sort of closure from this. we haven't seen anything as far as a definitive crash site at this point. what other -- what might help lead investigators searchers to find this possibly the transponder, right? or transmitter rather. >> i think the elt if they did ditch in the water the elt because it's a radio transmission will be squelched the signal will be grounded, so i don't think that's going to happen. if it was on land that's a possibility, but in the water, i don't think that's going to happen. if they have rafts and the emergency locater transmitters in the raft, we could probably h...

Foreign assignment in cartegena we did not discover similar misconduct is widespread throughout the secret service. when a fence jumper made his way inside the white house this summer the president's press secretary said this. >> confidence in their ability to perform their very difficult function. what's required in an environment like this is a security organization that is adept, that is nimble, and that can be constantly both reviewing and upgrading their posture as necessary. that's difficult work. >> reporter: remember the new secret service rather the new secret service director joe cla...

Technical experts for that plane talking through the emergency -- now, this occurred shortly after takeoff, from what we're understand and the telegraph is reporting that the issue is with the right wing landing gear. now, we have not been able to confirm that at this point but that does present a pretty dynamic issue if it's one landing gear on either side that's not coming down. that can create a pretty big challenge for a pilot as they're coming in to land. we have dr. alan diehl who's a former ntsb investigator who's with us. doctor can you talk a little bit about what you've seen in the p...

>> welcome back to "america's newsroom." this has been a very busy hour of breaking news. if you missed it, a plane a 747 just landed safely, a virgin atlantic plane headed to vegas. it appears to have landed safely. the bad news here we're still covering a tragedy out of asia, a missing plane in that part of the world. leah: hopefully we'll get more information in the coming days. find the location and get resolution for families. thanks for joining us. "happening now" starts right now. >> continuing our coverage of that big story of the day teams searching for a missing airasia jet with 162 ...