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Puzzle, taking tiny fragments of bomb pieces, identifying and buying all the identical kinds of parts and making a mock-up of how investigators believed the bombs looked and worked. both apparently were set off with remote controls from model cars. and the government says tamerlan tsarnaev set off the bomb he was carrying first, and dzhokhar set off his second. each of them using their own remote controls which the fbi said today were not interchangeable. and investigators revealed today that ea...

The jet dropping more than 3,000 feet a minute, closing in on the mountains in plain view of the passengers. they are heard on the recording too, screaming in the final seconds before the crash. our hamish macdonald is in the french alps. >> the french prosecutor says that everyone on board this flight died on impact when it smashed into the mountainside. and now recovery teams are scouring the far side of this top ridge line, looking for every piece of debris and every possible clue. >> reporte...

Searchers looking for remains, bagging evidence of this apparent horrible act of evil. a tragic end to what was supposed to be a normal flight. a 10:00 a.m. takeoff from barcelona. everything seems normal. the cockpit voice recorder showing a friendly conversation between the two pilots. but then, the co-pilot, 27-year-old andreas lubitz is less jovial, his answers short. 30 minutes into the flight, the jet hit cruising altitude. 38,000 feet. the captain asks the co-pilot to take over, presumabl...

Has announced it will offer $55,000 assistance for each victim. >> pelley: allen pizzey reporting from the copilots home town tonight. alan, thank you. now to the search for the remains of those victims. elizabeth palmer is on the scene. >> reporter: french police mount of mountaineers helped forensic specialists comb the crash site today. theyve now gathered hundreds of body parts for identification marked on the slope with red flags. theyre also doing a careful grid search for pieces of the pl...

Announcements in aviation history. what we still dont know is why the co-pilot did it. how he did it is now clear. in total silence he deliberately programmed not just his own death but the deaths of his colleagues and of his trusting passengers. the harrowing search for the remains of the dead intensified today at the scene of what was believed to be a tragic accident. not anymore. this is the site of a mass murder. the french prosecutor blaming this man, the 27-year-old german co-pilot andreas...

Facing the mountains they stood next to their national flags, the stars and stripes among them. the third american victim was named today as robert oliver who lived and worked in spain for a fashion company. the remains of the dead are slowly being removed. searchers still looking for the second cockpit data recorder and more clues to a chilling crime committed by a calculating young pilot. bill neely, nbc news, seynes-les-alps, france. >> reporter: this is katy tur in montabar, germany. andreas...

Too. >> i love that story. thats going to do it for us. >> we appreciate your time be sure to breaking news tonight. the young co-pilot who locked the captain out of the cockpit. his training, right here in the u.s. authorities say his intention to destroy, his plan to fly that jet into the mountain. tonight, the captain heard pounding on the door to get in. and the passengers screams in those final moments. as breaking at this hour, the explosion right here in new york city. fears some are ...

Revealing how a german airliner crashed in the french alps killing all 150 onboard. we learned today that three americans are among the dead including emily selke of nokesville, virginia. the rest from the plane were mostly germans and spaniards on a flight from barcelona to dusseldorf. in clear skies, with no hint of trouble, the germanwings airbus a-320 descended into a mountain at nearly 450 miles an hour. we have a team of correspondents on the story. first well go to mark phillips in france...

>> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. good evening. the force of the impact of that plane crash in the french alps was so strong that even the rugged container that held the voice recorder designed to withstand over 3,000 gs was left twisted. yet tonight officials are saying they have managed to recover the critical information it carried. sounds and voices from the cockpit which could help explain why the plane ...

From stunned locals. silence interrupted only by the harrowing search of the helicopters. bill neely, nbc news, seynes-les-alps, france. >> reporter: this is tom costello. the fact that flight 9525 crashed into a mountain at 440 miles per hour could be compelling evidence that the crew was incapacitated. like all modern aircraft, the a320 is equipped with a ground proximity warning system that tells pilots to pull up if a plane is headed for ground collision. >> terrain ahead. pull up! >> report...