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Blew up and there was no signal. there was nothing. you have to just go out of your way to try to figure out where it is. that may take some time. it hasnt disappeared forever. >> the list of nos goes beyond the no communication for the pilot. there is no trace of where it may have gone on the radar. there is no debris field. there are no signals from the so-called black boxes, the flight data recorders. what does that tell you? >> it tells you that it is something unprecedented that hasnt happe...

That had to be in the left-hand seat. and from everything that ive read and everything ive heard about captain shah, he absolutely adored and loved flying. in fact, they both did because hamid made it quite clear this was doing something hed always wanted to do. >> given the fact that this plane seems to have disappeared, isnt there a better way these major, huge airliners could be tracked so that they cant simply disappear? what needs to be done? >> wolf, lets step back a bit. we have speculati...

At 36,000 feet. the catastrophic incident some hint that perhaps corrosion because malaysian airlines flies oceanic routes will cause reduction in air pressure that would cause passengers and the crew to lose consciousness in a matter of seconds. whunts again, they have a good anti-aging program. the plane is 11 years old. we dont know anything. one of the problems going forward is the awful example of the air france crash in the south atlantic several years back. it took investigators two years...

Have in mind some kind of stopgap for this positive system. talk to me about what kind of monitoring systems are now in place for the engineers, for the people who run these railroads. theres the black box, so-called black boxes, the recorders, there were two of them on this train. what about video cameras? is anyone taking pictures of whats going on inside these trains? >> not that i know of. i dont believe anybody has got a video system on board. they do review the operation of the train and t...

Broken rail would be the case because the entire train went off. it went straight off into the embankment and then down toward the water. it is amaze that more people didnt get killed in this given the speed at which this train was going. the governor earller saying the straight part of that track just before that curve, 70 miles per hour is the norm. and then it -- the trains are meant to slow down to about 30 miles per hour. can you tell us a bit about the braking system on these trains? that ...

Gold faush, who understands this situate quite well. what you have does it that seem like? >> its interesting, the fact that there was no radio for any kind of help, indicates that it may have been pilot error, but the board is going to say very little this afternoon. its protocol. theyre going to talk about the g.o. teams. they will get the so-called black boxes, bring them back to washington. >> this was an airbus a-300. tell us about this plane. >> first of all, its an old plane, but this pla...

Contained but there are missing of 40. maybe we have a hint of what happened here. rick, what do we know now? >> this is terrible story. the same weekend of the plane crash investigators are trying to get information from those so-called black boxes. data recorders just as in airplanes they collect information about the trains brakes, throttle position, the speed the train was traveling at the time of the accident. you can see the fireball here. this train was apparently parked unattended when i...

The tail was up in the air and it almost did a flip. i think it righted itself and came down on its belly. >> the top just totally, like, collapsed on a lot of people, so a lot of people were injured, yeah. >> everyone lined up out, out, out, like a military process. >> survivors of that deadly plane crash yesterday describing the horror, describing the aftermath. right now investigators in washington, d.c. are looking at the so-called black boxes, asiana airlines describes the pilots as a skill...

Wreckage. theyre going to know what happened probably in the next 48 hours but report they wont release that if there is anything they find that was significant in the aircraft itself that will probably do a quick snap shot to industry flying that equipment to let them know about it. but the final report wont come out until all is are dotted and ts are crossed. that could be up to a year. >> it would seem they might be able to glean quite a bit of information. do you think that is going to be on...