Jon Scott longtime co-anchored Happening Now on Fox News until the network expanded America's Newsroom from 2 hours to 3, ending the show in June 2018 after 11 years of being on air.
[citation needed] Scott began his career as a correspondent for KOMU-TV (NBC) in Columbia, Missouri, a station owned and operated by Mizzou.
[2][3] Scott was training to be an aviation pilot at the time, and studied the Bojinka plot that was a joint cooperation of Ramzi Yusuf with bin Laden that had resulted in one death and ten injured on an airline flight.
[4] During May 1 and 2, 2011, he served as the studio anchor for Fox News coverage of Operation Neptune Spear, which the Navy SEALs killed Usama bin Laden.
He is also a certificated pilot, rated to fly single- and multi-engine airplanes,[6] and sometimes uses his expertise when covering aviation stories, such as the July 6, 2013, crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214.