this is in cahokia, illinois, across the river from st. louis.our map right here labels it as st. louis downtown airport. i was told it was parks airport. i do not know if it is one in the same airport or it is trying to land, but this gives you a sense of the general area in illinois. just across the river from st. louis where this is all going on. again, just to bring you up to speed here, looking at an airport now where they're waiting what could be an emergency landing of a leer jet with as many as eight people on board. they have called in emergency crews because there are problems with the landing gear. there have been at least three passes we know of this plane has made so far to that airport, none to the satisfaction of either the people in the plane or the control tower. one of the normal procedures that we have, tory, when a plane is having problems with its landing gear, we have seen planes land without it. >> right. you know, i mean, that could be a possibility here, but perhaps why we're seeing several different attempts at the airpo

so, this is 150 feet, at this cahokia airport in illinois.have more work room and something happens and you tweak at that plane one way or the other the pilot has a little more room to work. >> megyn: we're going to listen to the chopper pilot again. >> even close to lambert at this stage of the game and we may or may not have success with that. we want to let you know that. if you see the helicopter turn circles here, you'll understand why. but in terms of just manpower, yes, there would easily be, i'm sure four or five times the amount of equipment at lambert than there would be. and although when you're talking about a small jet, a private lear jet, still a jet, but nowhere near the size of a commercial jet and i suspect that the people at hartz would have done just fine, but the comfort level of the pilot is what's important right now because of the other people on board, the pilots, rather, because the other people on board with him. so, you never blame anyone for doing what they're most comfortable with. but they certainly would have fa

louis downtown airport, to be specific this is cahokia, illinois, across the river from st. louis. i know you don't see a lot right now. these are just sort of different landing strips here as part of this airport, different tarmacs, what you will see momentarily if this is what i believe this camera crew on this helicopter crew is zooming in on, see the four vehicles, four vehicles, four different ambulances, so the situation right now is that this airport, this leer jet 45, ever since 1:00 eastern time, it has been circling and the issue is it cannot land. there is an issue, according to tory dunnen, we'll bring you in in a moment, our aviation expert, it appears, tory, let me bring you in, are you with me? >> sure, i'm here. >> does it appear that this plane is descending? >> it looks like it is at the moment. but this could be on a delay here. i have to tell you, brooke, we have seen it come in and circle the airport. there are potentially troubleshooting what could be a problem. the faa saying this is a leer jet 45 reported problems with the landing gear door. so it looks like