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Home that night because of the police, they went off with friends and a lack of communication. certainly now, 2 minutes until 5:00 in the morning, if you are that family that hasnt heard anything, waiting for the sun come up has been a very long and difficult night. the early word was they werent sure what it was, a little bit later it sounded like there was some sort of explosion. early reports that i might have been a gas problem, electrical problem, and that somebody became known that there w...

On this overcast day in alaska inland, the water is providing a bountiful catch for the six tourists on this steel hulled fishing boat. >> heres another one coming up. >> but their luck begins to change from big fish to big trouble. >> everybody get one of those on, please. >> turns out the motor located under the deck has malfunctioned and broken apart. its metal pieces ripping a hole in the boat. >> we were just having fun with the camera back and forth. and then it evolved into much more. i j...

>> brothers john and bob dubois from mission viejo, california. on this overcast day in alaska inland, the water is providing a bountiful catch for the six tourists on this steel hulled fishing boat. >> heres another one coming up. >> but their luck begins to change from big fish to big trouble. >> everybody get one of those on, please. >> turns out the motor located under the deck has malfunctioned and broken apart. its metal pieces ripping a hole in the boat. >> we were just having fun with th...

The plane home and delivered the loved ones back to an airport, though perished. so there must have been something else. >> this is about an electrical system. john cook asks this, he says, what is the probability that an electrical issue rendered the acars and oxygen systems inoperable. geoffrey, what about that? >> jeffrey wise? >> no, geoffrey thomas. geoffrey thomas? >> sorry, okay. beg your pardon. look, electrical problem, youve got power from the engines, we know that, so you do have elec...

Of perth, australia, trying to locate any sign of debris. >> exactly right. will ripley reporting there from kuala lumpur. many thanks to you. of course, john, the situation here, we have to emphasize theres still no evidence that shows that there was foul play here on the part of the pilots. >> yeah. >> at this point. >> the investigation has been covering all the angles. thats where it was leading last week. now it appears it may be some kind of catastrophic event. but all of it speculation. ...

Bountiful catch for the six tourists on this fishing boat. >> heres another one coming up. >> but their luck begins to change from big fish to big trouble. >> everybody get one of those on, please. >> turns out the motor located under the deck has malfunctioned and broken apart. its metal pieces ripping a hole in the boat. >> we were just having fun with the camera back and forth. and then it evolved into much more. i just kept the camera running. >> one of the diesels sheered a shaft and were t...

That is also consistent with a potential electric issue. we know that we dont know. and as we try to put the pieces together with this limited information, its a bit speculative. >> jim tillman, given the limited information that we have at this stage, what are the still available theories as to what happened to this plane? >> well, there are a lot of them. you can kind of take your pick. but of course, if were talking electrical problem, were talking about a massive electrical problem. theres s...

Going off simultaneously is some type of electrical problem, the airplane is wonderfully redundant, fire different power sources, some of them with multiple generators, this should not happen, when it does, you get down to batteries and the batteries only last so long. were at night, over the water, i believe these pilots turned back where they came from because they were wrestling a pretty difficult situation. and at some point their systems and backup systems ran out at night over water or lan...

Have a satellite phone that operates independent of the airplanes electrical system. may or may not have worked in the cockpit. but more likely scenario is that somebody just didnt want to talk. and if they dont want to talk to you, you can be screaming and yelling, but if you shut everything off, theres no transponder codes for the secondary radar to pick up. nobody answering the phone, so to speak, or answering the radio. that creates a problem. more likely, electrical problem. if its not terr...

They are huge, state of the art incinerators, that are designed to have just enormous capacity. each one of these two machines is supposed to be able to incinerate 40 tons of trash per day. 40 tons per day, and theres two of them side by side. you want to know what theyre actually doing with their trash at the base where these two incinerates are? yeah, its just an open air burn pit. theyre just burning stuff in a hole. this is at a base due south of kabul, pretty close to the pakistani border. ...