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Thankfully no one was seated near the hole. during a boeing safety stand-down tuesday, ceo david calhoun told employees, airline and passenger confidence in boeing is at stake. >> were going to approach this, number one, acknowledging our mistake. >> reporter: the ntsbs focus, that blown out door plug, looking for signs of metal fatigue and whether it was ever properly secured. four critical bolts have not yet been recovered. both alaska and united airlines, which fly the max 9, report finding l...

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Searching? i mean, is it a search by air? is it on the ground? >> we start with our cellular fre forensics and radar analysis team. from there, we narrowed that down using eyewitness accounts that had seen the airplane fly over. we narrowed it down, obviously, even further when autumn walked out of the woods. but we actually already has been flying over that area. she reported that she saw us fly over her during the day. so the cellular forensics puts us right on top. and her walking out has giv...

Hawaii. the experimental plane attempting to fly around the world. powered by the sun. in a holding pattern, in japan. after taking off from china sunday. the journey to hawaii expected to take 130 hours. the planes toughest leg yet. >> just listening to it the plane seems to sing as it flies. in the cockpit, you have the veteran pilot, andre borschberg. earlier he told cnn huh he is coping so far. >> i tried not to thing of 130 hours. but simply about the present moment. what do we do next? how...

Covered an extraordinary distance. we still dont know why, we still dont know how, or exactly what altitude it was flying or why it went in the water. >> its true. but as devastating as this is for the families and all of us here, really, this is a positive thing. from the standpoint of now we pinpoint this investigation a little further, and i think it could proceed as a normal investigation. but, you know, that being said, why did the airplane fly so long, no professional flight crew, obviousl...

Edward snowden matter. what are the repercussions? >> well, theres no doubt, alex, the word embold emboldens is the right word. stick a finger in the u.s. eye. having said that, the important thing to remember is venezuelas offered asylum, bolivia, nicaragua. snowden isnt there yet. the u.s. is working this very hard. the president of the united states said a couple of weeks ago he wouldnt scramble jets to get snowden but theyre scramblingle air traffic control towers of europe and had four coun...

How you felt when you heard? >> well, when i finally stopped screaming because, you know, i witnessed the pentagon attack. i was right across the river from it and watched the airplane fly right into the building. its very personal for me. its also spent ten years taking up the time of thousands and thousands of u.s. service members and their families and my familys had to suffer over this, too. but were very relieved that this one component of al qaeda that we finally put the nail in the coffin...