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turbulence at 37,000 feet. passengers describing the horror, plates and glasses flying. a flight attendant hitting the cabin ceiling. several passengers take on the th hospital. and tonight, a separate flight forced to divert because of a fire in the cabin. gio benitez on both flights. tonight, the suspect accused of attempting to place an explosive device onboard that plane in pennsylvania, in court. and tonight here, the first image of that device, hidden, they say, in the lining o...

>> reporter: susan zimmerman among the 174 passengers onboard. >> while it was happening, the plates were up and the ceiling glass was up in the ceiling. my bag was flown back behind me. >> reporter: lufthansa flight 460 in the middle of dinner service on wednesday night, when the faa says the aircraft hit severe turbulence at 37,000 feet over tennessee. >> luft than that airbus a-330, experiencing extreme turbulence. >> reporter: the plane diverting safely to washingtons dulles airport. lufthan...

They got quite a bit of time in that area because the area is not cold, its probably 80 degrees. and in the area. the real concern to me on that would be is because i dont think in a violent thunderstorm that youre going to able to come out -- but you could, im not saying you couldnt -- but normally you would be in a rather uncontrollable position so it would be very difficult to land like the a 320 did on the hudson river. the real concern is the violence of those thunderstorms and that line of...

With two of three pit tubes were blocked. are you concerned this to have happened here and what happens in the cockpit when you get these whacky readings. >> the pitot tubes are, indeed something thats a problem. they are not made by airbus they are made by a vendor. theres a second one im not sure which one was the problem. pilots should have been trained how to fly through these events. i know that northwest airlines on the a-330 which is the same plane of the air france in the atlantic had so...

Flight to seemingly vanish into thin air. >> reporter: its 2009. air france airbus a-330 disappears over the atlantic headed from rio de janeiro to par paris. no distress calls from the pilots. it takes search crews five days to locate the tail of the plane and another two years to find the bulk of the wreckage. the final verdict? a deadly stall caused by ice crystals blocking the planes sensors. in 1996 one of the most disputed air disasters in recent memory. twa flight 800 exploded in mid air ...

What is the certainty that the black boxes could be recovered? >> the odds of recovering the black boxes and getting useful data off of them are really very high. several years ago we had the air france a-330 that went from brazil to france. and it was lost. in that case it was lost because of a high altitude upset in a severe, severe thunderstorm. they didnt find the black boxes for two years and they were still able to recover usable data off of that. and that was over 10,000 feet. >> wow, and...

Pleasantness, sweetness and light, my dear friend, welcome, welcome to farnborough. and look behind me at these brilliant planes. weve got the 380, weve got the 787 dreamliner, the a-330, the a-400m, a real potpourri. but the talk today was all about orders. huge orders for boeing and for airbus. a new leasing company, huge order for airbus. and emirates, the dubai-based airline, ordering third 777s from boeing, taking their fleet to 101. a quick look, a first glance. yet without the name on the...