Name: UNC professor Jim Kitchen returns from deepest point on Earth
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Description: Just months after visiting space, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jim Kitchen traveled to the deepest point in the ocean!

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Just months after visiting space, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jim Kitchen traveled to the deepest point in the ocean! 

THE PLANET INTO POPSICLES. FROM THE EDGE OF SPACE ALL THE WAY TO THE DEEPEST POINT ON EARTH. UNC PROFESSOR JIM KITCHEN HAS DONE IT ALL. >> HE JOINS US NOW TO TALK ABOUT HIS LATEST ADVENTURE, WHICH WAS AN EXTREMELY DEEP DIVE INTO THE MARIANA TRENCH. SO WE SAW IN MARCH, JIM BLUE ARJUN INTO SPACE. NOW YOU GO DOWN TO THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS PROJECT? IT WAS A IT WAS CRAZY. IT WAS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE. >> WHEN EVERYONE WAS WATCHING FIREWORKS HERE, THE 4TH OF JULY WAS GETTING READY WAS ACTUALLY THE 5TH OF JULY OUTSIDE 200 MILES OUTSIDE OF GUAM. AND THE MARIANA TRENCH I GOT INTO A SUMMER ARE SIMPLE AND WENT 7 MILES BELOW THE EARTH'S SURFACE TO THE VERY DEEPEST PART OF THE THE EASTERN POOL OF THE MARIANA TRENCH TO A PLACE WHERE ACTUALLY A PART OF THIS EASTERN POOL WHERE NOBODY HAD EVER GONE BEFORE. AND IT WAS IT WAS INCREDIBLE. SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE SAW DOWN THERE. I GIVE YOU SOME PERSPECTIVE, THE GRAND CANYON IS ILD. WE WERE 7 TIMES BELOW THAT. SO IT WOULD IT TOOK US 4 HOURS TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE EARTH. AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE. SOME OF THE THINGS WE SAW OUT THERE, THOSE SUBMARINES ARE A TIGHT FIT, RIGHT? WHAT ABOUT THE PHYSICAL TOLL THAT IT TOOK ON NEW COMPARED TO GETTING READY FOR YOUR SPACE TRAVEL IN AND THEN GETTING READY TO GO DOWN INTO THE SUBMARINE. >> IT WAS A PRETTY TIGHT SAID I'M NOT CLAUSTROPHOBIC, BUT MY CLUSTER FOLKS, FRIENDS WERE LIKE, OH, MY GOSH, NO WAY. I'M NOT DOING THAT. >> BUT IT IS ACTUALLY REMARKABLY HERE'S THE THING AT 7 MILES BELOW THE EARTH'S SURFACE, THERE'S SO MUCH PRESSURE IT TAKE HIM ON. IT'S A 10 TO 300 FULLY LADEN. 7.47. JUMBO JETS SITTING ON TOP OF THE SUBMARINE. SO YOU'RE HOPING AND PRAYING THAT EVERYTHING WORKS FINE, BUT IT'S IT'S COLD DOWN THERE. THERE'S NO OXYGEN. THERE'S NO SUNLIGHT. AND DESPITE ALL THAT THESE CRAZY CREATURES EXIST DOWN THERE. IT'S JUST IT WAS LIFE CHANGING TO TO SEE THEM SURVIVE AND THRIVE DOWN THERE. I WANT YOU TO SHOW ME SOME OF THE STUFF YOU WERE ABLE TO BRING BACK THERE. >> DID YOU TAKE ANYTHING WITH YOU? FIRST OF ALL ON, DID YOU BRING ANYTHING BACK? >> YEAH, IT TO GET SOME SOME INTERESTING THINGS THAT BECAUSE I I WAS ABLE TO TAKE A BAG OUTSIDE OF THE SOME RAIN. AND I BROUGHT WITH BIG HEAD GETS TO SIMULATE HOW MUCH PRESSURE THERE IS. THIS WAS A FULL-SIZE HEAD AND THIS IS WHAT IT SHOULD DOWN TO. IT'S ABOUT THE SIZE OF MY FIST. SO THAT WOULD SOME PERSPECTIVE THE CRUSHING WEIGHT. AND WE ACTUALLY SET SOME SOME BAIT TRAPS AND WE CAUGHT SOME OF THESE AND THE THEY'RE LIKE LITTLE SHRED. VERY HARD SHELL AND IT'S VERY LITTLE ANIMAL INSIDE. BUT THE SHELL IS VERY, VERY STURDY, VERY STOUT TO HELP IT WITHSTAND THESE THESE CRUSHING PRESSURES AND SOME OF THE OTHER INCREDIBLE THINGS THEY SAW WERE THE CITY'S CALL BACTERIAL MATCHED THEIR BACTERIAL FORMATIONS THAT ARE KEY MOST SYNTHETIC BECAUSE THERE'S NO SUN, NO OXYGEN. THEY THRIVE DOWN THERE, WHICH JEFF INTERESTINGLY WOULD BE, I WAS LIKE BEING ON A MARS ROVER IT'S THIS IS LIKELY THE TYPE OF LIFE THAT WOULD EXIST ON OTHER CELESTIAL MOVEMENTS ARE PLANETS. IF THEY WOULD EXIST. THAT IS SIMPLY AMAZING. I KNOW IT WAS LIKE A 11 MINUTE ROUND-TRIP ON BLUE ORIGIN TO SPACE AND WE'RE OUT OF TIME RIGHT NOW. BUT TOP TO BOTTOM FROM SUBMERSION IN THE SUBMARINE TO RESURFACE, HOW LONG WE DOWN THERE. >> 11 HOURS. OKAY. I STRIPPED. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. I SEE THAT FLAG ONE. 95 BEHIND YOU THERE. 193 COUNTRIES, ALL OF THEM IN THE WORLD. ONE 94 WITH SPACE. ONE. 95, DEEPEST DEPTHS OF THE WORLD. JIM KITCHEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING YOUR ADVENTURE. THANK YOU. THANKS, JEFF. >> JUST MAKES YOU WANT TO TAG ALONG RIGHTS. SUCH A FASCINATING CONVERSATION WITH JIM KITCHEN. CERTAINLY INSPIRES ALL OF US TO GO GRAB SENSE OF ADVENTURE AND WANDERLUST. ONE DAY ELIZABETH WILL GO EXPLORING THE WORLD. BUT FOR NOW, WE'LL TAKE A LITTLE TOUR OF THE LIVE CAM NETWORK. CANNOT APPLY FOR HIS JOB.

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UNC professor Jim Kitchen returns from deepest point on Earth

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Brian Shrader flies over the site of a plane crash at Raleigh-Durham International Airport approximately three hours after the accident.

Seen some activity just in the past 10 minutes or so. I want to take you outside Sky five right now for a live look at the scene. We saw a van being escorted to the runway there and someone got out and now there appears to be a really careful inspection of the debris going on. So we're working to confirm if that may be the NTSB investigation team arriving at the scene. Let's zoom out and give you some about where this is. There are two main runways at RDU International and this is in the grassy field next to the runway that mostly serves terminal one on the east side of the airport, that runway remains closed while this investigation continues at the top of your screen. That is the other main runway that serves terminal two, mostly that runway is open. So we have two things going on here that could affect your flights for the rest of the day and maybe even into tomorrow, the airport takeoff and landing capacity is roughly reduced by half because they are only working with one runway. And if you have a flight coming out of terminal one, maybe Southwest, you're going to have to take that crossover all the way out to that other runway. It's going to add a lot of extra time.

Sky 5 flies over RDU plane crash 3 hours later 

A UNC Health physician and pilot were taken to the hospital Wednesday after a small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).


Sky 5 flies over plane crash at RDU

RDU Airport Authority gives an update on a plane crash that sent a physician and pilot to the hospital. The crash occurred Wednesday morning on a flight that took off from Wilmington.

<p>Landguth first, I want to extend my thoughts to those affected by this morning's aircraft accident and thank our first responders for their quick action to respond. The airport authority and its mutual aid partners responded to an aircraft accident at RDU involving a general aviation aircraft. The accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. in the grass next to runway five, right 23 left. The flight was arriving from Wilmington, North Carolina. The A the aircraft is owned by medical Air Inc and operated by UN C air operations. The aircraft had two people on board, one pilot and one passenger. Both were transported to area hospitals. The federal A Bush administration issued a ground stop that was lifted at approximately 1130 this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have both been notified. The National Transportation Safety Board is en route and expected to arrive within the next hour at which time we will conduct an accident investigation. Rdu's runway five left 23 right reopened to departing and arriving aircraft around 11:30 a.m. this morning. Are you experiencing approximately 70 delays and several arriving flights were diverted to other airports? Until ground stock was lifted, travelers should contact their airline for the latest updates regarding the flight status. And of course questions about the identity and condition of the pilot and passenger should be directed to UN C health. And at this time I'll try to answer any questions. You may have, uh, the one, any other accidents in, in the past. I'm not familiar with any other accidents have occurred with that operation. I don't know, uh, that's the role of the National Transportation Safety Board. They'll actually come in and do the investigation. Uh, and at some point in the future, they write up a report and determine what the cause of the accident was. You know, that there was no notification to the airport authority or to the FAA uh about any type of emergency on board. Do we have a guy? We don't, all we know that we've got them out of the airplane and we've got them transported to local hospitals. We know situations like this and delays have a ripple effect on, you know, flights. Do you have any idea what type of impact we'll see here in our view and for not sure, but what we're going to encourage everybody to do is reach out to your airlines. We'll be able to give you real time information about the impact of your particular flight. Ok. I believe some of them went to Greensboro and I think a couple went to Charlotte as well. What, what to be impacted due to the NTSD. Say that one more time at this point in time, what we call the west side of our airport is now open the investigation they'll conduct will all be on the east side. So at this point, we are anticipating normal operations returning to normal operations from this point forward. I don't think that anything that they're doing regarding the investigation or where they would have to investigate would have any impact to the west side of the airport. No, the aircraft is still on the airfield itself. It's on the east side of the field. So terminal one that runways the east side of the field, that's where the debris field actually sits, the west side of the field is open and operational and safe to operate. Not that I'm aware of in operations for you throughout this event today. What was your main concern concerning the passengers that were in the internals? Right. I think our primary focus when, when that accident occurred were the two people sitting in that aircraft? Our primary mission is to make sure we can get to them and try to rescue them and try to make sure that we can get them in a safe condition as fast as we possibly can. Uh secondarily is trying to figure out then how we recover and get our operations back up and running. Mhm. How does that affect? What goes on term? Yeah, so great. Question. So the team has figured out a way to get all the aircraft they're gonna operate at terminal one. Your Southwest develops. Uh We've got a crossover taxi way that we can actually get them through our general aviation aircraft. We've got a crossover taxiway, we can get them to. But the rest of the uh accident scene is actually kind of isolated and closed and locked off. Yeah, you're terminal one at this point in time. Once they can get back on their schedule, it's going to be a normal operations. All right. Thank you guys. All right. Thank you. Grab your phone, right.</p>

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A small plane crashed at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) Wednesday morning.



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