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But in this incident, its still a big mystery. they havent even been able to locate the plane or the passenger at the hour, so, with the focus and if the focus truly turns out to be over water and if it turns out to be that kind of investigation, the tough task is going to be finding the wreckage. theyre going to need sonar equipment. just to locate where this wreckage was. the most important piece of evidence is going to be what people often call those black boxes. the data recorders. there is ...

A part in the pilots landing 7 miles from their intended destination. landing at the wrong airport means one thing. >> inattention. now, whether that was distraction, fatigue or what the underlying cause was. >> reporter: an faa rule says only conversations relevant are allowed during critical faces of -- phases of flight. these data recorders will tell investigators if it was violated. the ntsb is reviewing the recordings now. they plan to interview the crew and dispatcher. drug and alcohol tes...

Emergency crews couldnt even try to put out the flames for more than a day. and now investigators say the data recorders may not be recoverable. people in the town say things are getting back to normal, but the mayor still says he wants official if i recalls to do more to guarantee the safety of the transportation of oil across the country. >> more than 50 peoples are still stuck on that ship in antarctica that is trapped in thick ice. those passengers took to storming the snow and the ice. here...

Kind of injury. 11 of the injuries are considered critical and 4 people have already died. investigators have recovered the data recorders from the crashed train now. trains have them the same way that airliners do. investigators said late today that on the sharp curve just outside the spuyten duyvil station, the sharp curve where the derailment happened, the speed limit for trains there is 30 miles per hour. the trains data recorders apparently showed that in that 30-mile-per-hour zone, the tra...

Headquarters i am marianne rafferty. they are looking at a number of causes for todays deadly train derailment in new york. four people killed dozens others injured. the train was rounding a curve on the way to ground central station in manhattan which was 12 miles away. they will be looking at the data recorders similar to a plain black box. the obama administration saying it met self-imposed deadline for getting the bugs out of the healthcare got gov web site. it is expected to handle 50,000 u...

Obvious signs of how he passed away. kind of waiting on that. its getting investigated as a homicide until we find out exactly how this happened. >> yesterdays incident occurred one year to the day after chiefs linebacker belcher killed himself in that same parking lot. waiting for an ntsb news conference on the first ever deadly derailment for the metro north commuter line here in new york city. while investigators have both data recorders, they still want to talk to the engineer and the cond...

Section of track, but our problems arent easily solved. the tracks -- we just cant build new track in this country as easily as in other countries where you have more eminent domain and the ability to take land. >> the governor told us last hour that they retrieved two data recorders from the train, front and from the back. what kind of information will they be ath able to gather from that, mary? >> its going to depend on the age of the data recorders, but data recorders arent just going to give...

News media. tell our viewers what the investigators said. >> reporter: well, a lot of information coming out. first we should tell you that according to the data recorders, that were recovered from the trains, first of all, the track seemed to check out okay. the signaling system seemed to be checking out as well. what is most disturbing to officials here is the speed at which the train was traveling, 82 miles an hour going into that type curve. also, the data recorder revealing that six seconds...

Have and we know this is preliminary in your investigation, but those data recorders do provide a wealth of information, for how long was that train going at 80 or 82 miles an hour? >> we dont at the moment -- i havent gotten information on that. we do know that two minutes before the curve, the train was going at 60 miles per hour and had accelerated then up to 82 prior to entering the curve. >> so -- >> it was under power. >> you have already interviewed the engineer, correct? >> we have begun...

Welcome back, everyone. weve got an update now on sundays fatal commuter train crash in the bronx. investigators say the second of two data recorders has now arrived in washington. >> the ntsb is hoping it will explain why the cars left the tracks, killing four people. a spokeswoman for the rail line says the train didnt have video cameras on board and the crews are not allowed to use cell phones. she also says the track pass the a recent inspection. >> the united states no safer from terror tod...