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He is a veteran pilot of other air frames, but the airline says it was his maiden flight to san francisco and n that particular type of jet. no word yet on whether that is a factor in the crash. one thing for sure, the ntsb says the planes speed at the time of that crash was definitely wrong. >> during the approach, the data indicates that the throttles were at idle and airspeed was slowed below the target airspeed. >> this is the exclusive video we have here at cnn that shows the impact of the ...

Scene until the ntsb gets there, on the ground, if you will. youve got three ntsb investigators from the west coast who will be there in short order. but your full go team with many, many people involved in that team, they will arrive late tonight or early in the morning. and they will then methodically begin going through this plane crash and looking for any and all evidence to help them piece together what happened. and they will divide into teams. they will have teams that will only be lookin...

You know about this situation with this unmanned aircraft? >> all we know is what "the washington post", iranian press and nato press said, that the iranians claim they shot down this drone, the iranians have claim theyve shot down many american and israeli drones before and those reports turned out to be not true. but in this case, nato, isaf, and afghanistan says one of the drones is missing. so it may be that we had a mechanical malfunction, and there is a possibility the iranians have this a...

>> well, as we wait to inspect something like this, there may be a known issue. i dont know. but seems like something they would check the air frame regularly. >> i dont know how often they check or what they do check for. >> jamie: peter gold, former managing director of the nstb, they are hard at work today, peter. thanks for being with us. because, everyone has a lot of questions about how this could happen. and, it has happened before. because, for many of us, the first thing we thought of, ...

Are six nato warships started patrolling off libyas coast. what are they there for? >> theyd be there for a couple of things. first in case there were any aircraft that managed to sneak through at low level and overfly, youve got additional surface-to-air radar there and capability to tie into the air early warning system. then in addition you can intercept any libyan ships that come out that might be trying to reinforce gadhafis troops, and you could enforce an arms embargo. >> right. okay. and...

You can remove some of the seats in order to pack more things in, or take more people, just depends on its -- its a beautiful airplane. >> i think were getting some more information on the aircraft itself. jeanne meserve in washington. she has that for us. stay right where you are. jean, what are you learning? >> tony, according to records, this particular aircraft had an air frame that dated to 1957. that may sound very old, and it is older than the average in the usair fleet, but i talked to c...

Required for pilots on the mainline carriers is stringent, but i dont want you to think the safety issue is with only those in the cockpit. the flight attendants arent just there to toss snacks and serve drinks at 35,000 feet. theyre highly trained professionals. they stand ready to risk their own lives to get you safely out of that plane should something go wrong. the men and women in the back of the plane are a major reason that you fly safely. as are the folks that you have never even seen, l...

Required for pilots on the mainline carriers is stringent, but i dont want you to think the safety issue is with only those in the cockpit. the flight attendants arent just there to toss snacks and serve drinks at 35,000 feet. theyre highly trained professionals. they stand ready to risk their own lives to get you safely out of that plane should something go wrong. the men and women in the back of the plane are a major reason that you fly safely. as are the folks that you have never even seen, l...

Required for pilots on the mainline carriers is stringent, but i dont want you to think the safety issue is with only those in the cockpit. the flight attendants arent just there to toss snacks and serve drinks at 35,000 feet. theyre highly trained professionals. they stand ready to risk their own lives to get you safely out of that plane should something go wrong. the men and women in the back of the plane are a major reason that you fly safely. as are the folks that you have never even seen, l...

Information blogs. and most specific information i can find is that the plane veered off course and dropped about 1600 meters before vanishes altogether. that would suggest that there was either severe turbulence that caused the entire plane you know to drop significantly. or there may have been some kind of an in-flight explosion or breakup of the air frame. and the transponder was still functioning for a few seconds after this catastrophic event. but other than that, this airplane has basicall...