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Wheel was tweaked to the right. so, the gear, apparently comes down, but is malfunctioning. >> right. so, at that point maybe it's not fully down and locked and that's why they would have a red indication on the nose gear light instead of the green indication, which means normal normally three down and green what we usually see for a pre-landing checklist. that's probably why they went ahead and did the fly-by by the tower and the tower is using their binoculars and see what's going on. >> megyn: who would be advising them. when they drive by-- or do a fly-by because they want to give a better...

Will be able to he see it momentarily. >> if they do have a twisted or tweaked gear, nose gear, that the tower will get a good look at it. i would think that they must have somehow identified that already, otherwise why send the air force crew by to do the fly-byes we saw earlier. >> megyn: the air force confirming that those were touch and goes by their jet at the airport. touch and goes and that the jet with the landing gear as we know is a civilian aircraft. this plane we're told by f.a.a. the plane in trouble is still 40 miles away from lambert airport and we're told that the pilot is stil...

Possiblien vision, megyn, is that the air force, if that's not the affected plane, that they're simply trying to give the tower a good look at what working gear should look like. because they'll have their, they'll have their spotter scopes on it from the tower. they'll be looking at that front wheel or which ever wheel is suspect as the plane flies by and maybe they want to get a good look at what it, you know, what it looks like normally, but i've just never heard after situation where a plane is in trouble and send out a reconnaissance plane. >> megyn: a decoy. >> to do this kind of ever th...

A look at our local reporters who are covering the situation? would they normally shut down the airport? >> yeah, oh, yeah. they would do that now. again, it will be probably a joint decision between the f.a.a., the tower, and the pilot. i mean, for instance, if i were in a place like this and circling new york i'd probably want to go to stuart. the stuart airport north of new york city has an enormous runway, i think it's 13,000 feet long or something like that. >> megyn: let's take a listen to the local pilot. >> and the nose gear, none of his underbelly tanks are going to touch the ground i...

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