and additional support from koo and patricia yuen, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. and from the fredric j. ridel living trust. ♪ ♪ >> on the morning of october 29, i was woken up by a colleague who alerted me that a lion aircraft crashed. he said, "it's the max," and i was surprised, because it was a new aircraft. my company provided the air data for aircraft flying ound the jakarta area. so i went to the computer and looked at the data. it was immediately apparent that, ok, something was wrong. (indistinct radio chatter) the plane went up to about 2,000 feet, just over a minute after takeoff, and the plane had a bit of a dive. and then the plane climbed to about 5,000 feet. (indistinct radio chatter) but then, at 5,000 feet, the plane was fluctuating up and down. and then the plane just started diving. it, just didn't make sense. you don't see planes diving on departure. i was baffled. why did it go down? ♪ ♪ >> lion air flight jt610 went missing from radar... >> narrator: 189 people were killed in the crash of lion air flight 610. >> the boeing 737 ma

journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler, and additional support from koo and patricia yuen, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities. ♪ ♪ >> it's been this roller coaster of days. the president of the united states, who's under enormous pressure to drop his bid for a second term, ends up being sick and has to isolate. he has covid. he disembarks from the plane. he takes a couple of steps and then he just stops, inexplicably, for no reason, it seems like. and he looks over to the right, where, there's nobody there. and he just looks halting, unsteady, uncertain. and you saw the lowest point, in some ways, of his presidency. >> (shouting over jet hissing): any response to chuck schumer? >> (inaudible) (reporters shouting questions) >> he disappears into the presidential limousine, and that's the last time anybody sees joe biden for six days. >> he was self-isolating for health reasons, but politically, he was incredibly isolated because there were mounting calls for him to drop out of the re. people were wondering, is this the end of joe biden's political