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Satellite images of the suspected crash. two u.s. navy destroyers are among dozens of ships which have been searching in the areas for days. were into day five of this search. joining us now commander marks of the u.s. navy 7th fleet aboard the "uss blue ridge." youve been helpful to us in the past few days. this new chinese imagery, the specific coordinates of these pieces of debris, has that altered your effort? where are you guys searching now? >> yes, i do not have specific information about...

Balloon, the two kids, max and his best friend, myles, were just so excited. >> we bought like some lollipops so me and myles were really hyped up. >> the kids give this really great countdown. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, blast off! >> we cut off the balloon. then it goes up. >> it started rocking wildly like crazy. it was going about 25 feet a second. it was pretty fast. after about two minutes, it disappeared into the clouds. >> they track the crafts coo...

>> oh, my god. splash down. >> reporter: at first, law enforcement believed these were desperate attempts to escape. then they began to hear radio traffic. coordinates. >> right there. oh-oh! >> in the water. >> thats a recovery team. >> just a recovery team? recovery team right there. >> reporter: the cartels even began organizing search and rescue teams and suddenly the videos made sense. drug smugglers hurling their stolen vehicles back into the rio grande were doing it for one reason. to pro...

>> reporter: their stolen vehicles hurled full speed into the rio grande. >> oh, my god. splash down. >> reporter: at first, law enforcement believed these were desperate attempts to escape. then they began to hear radio traffic. coordinates. >> right there. oh-oh! >> in the water. >> thats a recovery team. >> just a recovery team? recovery team right there. >> reporter: the cartels even began organizing search and rescue teams and suddenly the videos made sense. drug smugglers hurling their sto...

Imaging camera mounted underneath his helicopter. just the last year, in has been more violence and most disturbing to holland, more coordination, lookouts even reconnaissance in the smuggling. >> one thing you have to understand is how well coordinated this is and what the level of scouting and planning and organization is. >> right coming up. >> reporter: these videos of chases at first made to sense. >> yeah. i got it. >> reporter: drug runners caught in the u.s. and then racing back to mexic...

>> there it is. >> yep. >> reporter: but in a rare mistake the bomb hits the u.s. outpost instead. >> [ bleep ]! >> what the [ bleep ]! >> reporter: video has just come to light of this september 2012 incident in eastern afghanistan. another reminder of the uncertainty of combat. >> this was a major mistake from a targeting perspective. the way targeting works is you have to get the coordinates right. >> reporter: an investigation determined the aircrew had the wrong coordinates. >> oh my [ blee...

Apparently what happened is the u.s. air force plane was given the wrong coordinates for the 500-pound bomb. they were given the coordinates for the outpost rather than coordinates for expected taliban formation that was moving through the hillsides a short distance away. that is the target they were supposed to hit. there was a full investigation. everyone was cleared. it was an accident, they say. but you can only imagine that this might have turned out very differently, and very tragically fo...

[ bleep ] [ bleep ] bleep holy [ bleep ], dude! >> lets go to the pend gon to barbara star. barbara, how did this happen? >> it doesnt happen very often, but it does happen. look at the destruction it caused. what happens in these cases is these are precision guided bombs. the coordinates are put in, but the wrong ones come in and they called in the air strike rather than a nearby taliban formation. we can all excuse these young soldierss profanity at having a bomb land on their head. >> woo ke ...

Kind of amazing all these people came together pretty fast. >> how did it happen? easy. twitter. >> twitter? it was really like that? >> yes. we sent so much information. we get a phone call from tripoli or benghazi or whatever. we get the coordinates from google earth, and we verify that theres a location that needs to be hit. we send in a torpedo and then it is gone. >> really? how does that feel knowing you can call in a tomahawk missile over there? >> its out of the movies. >> did anyone thi...

A lot of things happened in a lot of different parts of the country sort of simultaneously. kind of amazing that all of these people came together very fast. >> how did it happen? >> yeah. >> easy, twitter. >> twitter? >> yeah. >> it was really like that? >> yes. >> we went so much information to nato via twitter. we get a phone call from tripoli or benghazi or whatever. we get the coordinates via google earth. >> right. >> we verify that there is a location there that needs to be hit, send a to...