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To check your deck. look for split or decaying wood paying special attention to area that is stay damp push on railings and banisters to make sure theres no give and make sure fasteners are tight and not rusted. preliminary findings suggest thats what appears to have cause this had collapsed. >> deteriorated fasteners or nails. >> reporter: most of the 24 injured have been treated at hospitals and released. two of them remain in critical condition. still ahead, the performance of a lifetime. n...

>> what could have happened, you dont need to blow the aircraft out of the sky. for it to fall out of the sky. this missile only had to hit the aircraft. >> as peter -- >> a wing, a tail plane. >> as peter gould said, when an aircraft is hit like this, it in his words unzips and falls apart. >> all the fasteners around it start to fall apart. so its essentially the plane could have come out of the air in one piece. but extremely distressed. because obviously it has been hit by a missile. and wha...

What they believe are parts of the bow, planks and other parts of this ship. experts believe this is the griffin. listen. >> no question about it. so were pretty anxious. we have to get the permits to excavate down. >> a lot more work ahead. the under water archaeologists believe this is the griffin because the fasteners on this ship are identical to fasteners on a sister ship that was recovered in the gulf of mexico several years ago but a michigan archaeologist is very skeptical. listen to him...

Was that the true test for the boats racing in the regatta in key west? the teams had to build boats of plywood and duct tape. two eight foot long two we by fours, a roll of duct tape, a pad of fasteners. >> he knew it was going down. >> its impressive when you have that. so thats impressive, but how about this too? youre a grill master, right? your domain. >> i can hold my own. >> see if this is something for you or you at home. a smart grill, wi-fi and a smartphone, and this baby can fair and ...

Boats racing in the schnooer war of regatta in key west? the teams had to build boats of plywood and duct tape. a sheet of mywood. two eight foot long two we by fours, a roll of duct tape, a pad of fasteners. >> he knew it was going down. >> its impressive when you have that. so thats impressive, but how about this too? when it comes to -- youre a grill master, right? your domain? >> i have my own skills. i can hold my own. >> see if this is something for you or you at home. a smart grill, wi-fi...

Asiana crash in san francisco to check the door pins and the fasteners for the emergency slides. things can just -- the plane just comes apart in that. >> two other points. i hear people saying, well, it had to be something big, but isnt that actually a little untrue that a small problem can become a big problem very quickly at that altitude? >> right. in any accident, its always is series of things. in tw 800 it was the wiring in the fuel tank. what happens is little things unravel. like in air...

Frankly, its because we have no evidence of the physical breakup of the aircraft, we have no evidence of a catastrophic failure, that most aviation safety people, when they hear about the passports, probably overly fixate on them. we know we have an aviation security problem, but as it was said with safety officials, we dont know, in fact, that these passports that were stolen, millions are stolen every year, in fact, had anything to do with this crash. i mean, its interesting to note that you c...

To have to be metal fatigue. this was a 737, only 15 years old. more important than the age is the number of cycles, takeoffs and landings. every time a plane goes through a cycle, it puts the stress on the skin of the airplane here which is made up of panels that are connected by fasteners and rivets and the plane contracts and expands during each cycle stressing that metal skin. this is not the first time a southwest plane, a 737, has had a problem with a hole in the skin opening up. you may r...

The skin of the plane, which is made up of panels connected by fasteners and also by rivets. the plane contracts and expands during that cycle and that stresses out the metal skin. this is not the first time a southwest 737 has had a problem with the hole in the skin opening up. in july 2009, southwest flight 2294 from nashville to baltimore made an emergency landing in west virginia after a crack opened up where two sheets of aluminum are open. no one injured there. the most famous case of meta...