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Ones. for example, the engines of the plane. this is not from a 777, but nonetheless, any big jet like this. the engines are incredibly important to an investigation to find out whether or not they were running at the time the plane went down whether or not something went wrong inside them or they burned out or exploded or something. no way. no way those are on top of the water anywhere. and beyond that probably this is true also for the voice and data recorders which really are the treasure tro...

You know, i think we got to dampen expectations here. the discovery of this wing part doesnt really tell you that much about -- i mean a big question in this crash is what caused it. was it a pilot with criminal intent? suicide and murder as it were like germanwings or a mechanical problem that we dont understand? a wing part is not going to tell you that, or conjecture about whether it hit the water hard or came in for smooth landing. sheds no light on that. you have to have the recorders, the ...

The engines. these are important to investigations. they tell you if you still had fuel. if you went in under power or not under power. theres no way they are on top of the water. thousands of pounds. same can be said for the voice and data recorders. no way they can be on top of the waves. in all likelihood if investigators are accurate they are on the floor of the indian ocean. a place with hills and valleys and tremendous pressure where so far these things have not been tracked down. miguel a...

Began to float away from the initial wreckage. would have gone right to the bottom. man, finding that is a real real task. >> so there remains a strong possibility, i guess we could call it that the -- thoess those data recorders may never be found. >> i think thats -- yes. imagine they have been searching for 17 months now. seem no closer than they seemed at the beginning when the search began. sadly that indeed could be the case. >> robert hager, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> ...

The passengers. >> translator: lath night, everyone consonde each other. finally everyone thought there was no need to believe it. even as we find out this piece of debring -- there is no way to prove that our people were with that plane. even if this is confirmed debris a lot of passengers say they still will not have closure until they find that plane, until they find remains and find out what happened with the data recorders. lets not forget there were 239 people aboard that plane. an hour ...

Believe a train would pass over 71 miles per hour past so many home and businesses but were told the train was rocketing around the curve. train 188 traveling in triple digits. theres more. they declined to give investigators a statement today, so we dont know if this person has a lead foot or if something was mechanically wrong with the train. thats something we may get after they get through looking at data recorders and cameras that were on board. they have already revealed what they call pos...

Cranes have now been brought in as authorities try to determine if anymore people are under that wreckage. we know at least six people were killed and more than 200 people were treated at local hospitals. officials say 243 people were onboard the train headed from washington to new york. ntsb investigators on the scene now and the trains data recorders or black boxes as we know them have been recovered. joining us now from a helicopter over the scene, nbcs tom costello. from your vantage point, ...

Out of philadelphia. heres the very latest for you. philadelphia mayor michael nutter is expected to give another update this one coming at 2:15 p.m. well spring that to you live when it happens. the new death toll seven people are confirmed dead. more than 200 people have been treated for injuries sustained in this derailment. investigators from the ntsb they have arrived on scene, an they have recovered the trains data recorders. the accident has caused amtrak to shut down therunning. vice pre...

We were all exchanging trying to get out of there. >> those were the lucky ones. the crash tearing all seven flying off the tracks two left standing upright. one nearly flipping totally upside down. investigators now also analyzing the data recorders for clues about what went so wrong. peter doocy live for us in philadelphia. >> reporter: these commuter train tracks have speed limits. the speed limit on the rails behind me is 50 miles per hour. the latest information we have from data that the "...

Go. this was a missing piece to the puzzle. here we can see that the alarms were of course sounding in the cockpit as heard through the cockpit voice recorder and we can verify that from the flight data recorder by virtue of the attitude of the airplane and the control systems to see that he heard it he knew what was going on and he just drove this plane into the ground intentionally. >> having done work like this hundreds if not thousands of times really who what are the next steps for investig...