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Aircraft once it was in the water. >> maybe a ditching attempt. >> the other clue is the distance from where it had the last point of contact. at first they told us it was six miles. judged by that it would be a flat spin. it would be a spiral straight down uncontrollably now we find out its 100 miles, 120 miles from where it was spotted. if you take 17-1 glide ratio which that aircraft has without engine power, it would put it exactly there and now you put those together with no assumptions, we...

Rest of the fuselage which bodes well for a water landing. so theres a lot of things to consider with the water landing. too much to talk about 50 feet over the water at night. >> now, mitch, i mean, you made it quite clear youre actually doing a powered all landing here. i think in the real scenario it would likely to be the two engines have flamed out because its run out of fuel potentially. how would that differ making the glide approach versus the approach you just described with power. >> i...

Family arrived at the hospital. the child and mother reportedly are healthy. walmart says it does not know how the drug ended up in the steak and maintains all of its meat comes prepackaged. tampa police are investigating. unbelievable, right? walmart had this whole campaign, no, really, buy steaks from us. >> prepackaged. coming up, a small plane loses engine power forcing an emergency landing in the middle of a crowded neighborhood. how the pilot managed to make it out alive. our nations...

>> fast as we fill them we get another storm coming in and it causes the salt to seep in the roadway. its never stopping. >> pot holes cause about $6.4 billion a year in car damage. new york city alone is spending an additional $7.3 million for road repairs this year. arthel? >> not to mention a lot of cities and states dont have the budget for that. brian, thank you. >> its not just the salt, its the snowplows that come along. if they hit anything in the road, it diction up the road. >> its dan...

About people in midwest feeling temperatures 30 below. have to make the most of it. >> 30 degrees is quite fortunate today considering what were seeing across the country. thank you. >> shes been out in this weather for days now. i guess the blood is getting thicker and getting hardier and used to it. three people fortunate to be alive this morning after crash landing on a busy highway in new york city. >> it really sounds like this is a scene right out of a movie but somehow the pilot of a sm...

>> due to the severity of her burns, she suffers from numerous infections and her kidneys, all but shut down. 11 weeks after the crash, kyle is forced to make a difficult decision. he takes his wife amanda off life support. she passes away two months after her 25th birthday. in its final report the national transportation safety board finds probable cause of the accident to be loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. once the plane is in trouble, he and amanda had precious little time to r...

I cant imagine that. knowing the personality he is, thats going to weigh on him for the rest of his life. >> the engineer was in the second day of a five-daywork week. each day nine hours. the question is what he fatigued or sleep-deprived. >> there is every indication he would have time to get full sleep. >> 18 minutes after leaving the station, the train picked up tremendous speed. when it was supposed to slow down to 30 miles per hour, the train was moving at 82 miles per hour. at that point ...

>> there is every indication he had time to get full recovery of sleep ro. it shows 18 minutes the train had picked up tremendous speed. by the time it was supposed to slow from 70 down to 30 miles per hour to make a dramatic left turn, the train was moving at 82 miles per hour. at that point the engine power suddenly dropped to idle and the engineer slammed on the brakes. but it was all too late. the train came to rest just inches from the water. david wrangle who teaches train engineering says...

Just how fast the train was going when it derailed. the onboard data recorder revealed the train was going 82 miles per hour when it took that fateful curve. it should have been traveling at just 30 miles per hour. engine power was cut back just six seconds before the crash, and the brakes were applied just moments later, but the engineer telling investigators they didnt work. its important to note here, they had worked at the nine stops before the crash. investigators also looking at the engine...

Tonight the ntsb says its already begun interviewing the four pilots on board. the two flying the jet and the relief crew. dan simon takes a look. >> investigators believe as asiana flight 214 was on final approach to san francisco international airport, its air speed was far too slow. >> about three seconds prior to impact, the flight data recorder recorded its lowest speed of 103 knots. at this time, the engines were at about 50% power and engine power was increasing. >> that meant that the pi...