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Radar. >> delta 1998 look to your right side about five miles for dash eight. should be 4300. do you see anything there? >> the planes speed drops dangerously low and begins to dive in heavy snow. the pilot overcorrects. a fatal mistake. >> the initial reaction to the stall warning was incorrect. >> reporter: the jet crashes into a home in buffalo, new york killing all 49 people onboard. >> we put our lives in the hands of people that we assume that the faa and airlines are properly training. >>...

Before the recovery it was thought the plane speed sensor were to blame. but the black boxes reveal the pilots were at fault. a transcript from the cockpit voice recorders shows confusion in the cockpit. >> we still have engines. what the hell is happening, one asks. another copilot said climb climb climb and the captain said no dont climb. air flight 3407 also stalls and disappears off radar. >> colgan 3407 buffalo. >> colgan 3407 approach. >> delta 1998 look off your right side about five mile...

Killing everyone. >> this is what were looking for in the middle of the atlantic ocean. >> reporter: two years later they find the black boxes deep in the ocean. before the recovery it was thought the planes speed sensors were to blame. but the black boxes reveal the pilots were at fault. a transcript from the cockpit voice recorder shows confusion in the cockpit. we still have engines, what the hell is happening one co-pilot asks? another co-pilot says climb, climb, climb, then the captain, no,...