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Anniversary of "apollo 13" a mission that became to be known as nasas most successful failure. >> roger. roger. >> start. >> roger. >> okay. >> looks good here. >> an oxygen tank explosion ripped through the spacecraft prompting commander jim lovelle to utter, quote, houston, weve had a problem. and shifting "apollo 13s" mission from moon landing to survival. these three brave astronauts along with dozens of flight controllers worked for days to solve multiple challenges and eventually landed sa...

Happening and the impact if it does. and those are the judgment calls. those are the things that make this snowball into an accident. >> peter, what do you make of the fact that there was no distress signal given from the cockpit, no sign of emergency from the flight crew other than that request to change the altitude? >> unfortunately, its all too common. we didnt have emergency callouts on a number of major accidents. pilots are trained to fly the plane. theyre not going to waste time getting ...

Cockpit were "good night, malaysian 370." the transcripts of the communication between the pilots of flight 370 and flight controllers may be a crucial piece of evidence, and it seems to be an unknown at this point in this unraveling mystery. investigators have not released the actual transcripts to the public yet, but they say there is a chance that a copy of the transcript could be released to the passengers families at their next briefing. remains to be seen. but we are keeping a close eye. t...

Self-identifier, mh 360. in the context of that transcript thats been released, theres 13 communications from the flight crew, and thats the only communication when theyre entering someones airspace or leaving someones airspace they dont self-identity. its the only time it happens, when theyre being handed off with other flight controllers. so at bear minimum, it was unprofessional and it may have been an indication something else was going on in the mind. >> maybe it was a third or fourth perso...

Home and they have taken some evidence there. between dont know the specifics. >> we are also talking about the two flight paths in the northern and southern corridor. what is that telling us? >> okay. i have sort of a map up here. lets just take a look at the first map, lets just see where we show you the plane comes out of kuala lumpur and goes up north theres possible flights of where it was going. where we see it goes to the dotted line going up to vietnam, thats where it was supposed to mak...

Declined to be named because hes not authorized to speak, he said the transponder stopped working at about the time the flight controllers lost contact with the plane near the coast of vietnam and they believe that it kept flying -- this is, again, new information -- for about an hour, hour and a half without any radar, without any instrumentation, or at least any evidence of where the plane might have been traveling. i want to go to nick robertson, who is now in london. heres some information t...

Mechanical explanations on what was going on. but those mechanical explanations are narrowing quickly. >> is it theoretically possible that the transponder just breaks down for whatever reason, but the rest of the flight is okay? that you can fly a commercial airliner like that, a boeing 777, without any other problems, even though the transponder has collapsed or failed? >> well, i mean, there are redundancies throughout the aircraft. you now, having a transponder go down does not shut down you...

Song "xo." have a listen, listen havers. >> flight controllers are looking carefully at the situation. obviously a major malfunction. ♪ major love is bright -- ♪ your love is bright as ever ♪ ♪ even in the shadows >> you just insulted me during this traumatic experience. on tuesday after beyonce started to get her criticism from challenger families, nasa issued a statement that the tragedy should, quote, never be trivial liesed. the pop star said the song writers included the audio in tr...

Returned looking for another snack. the homeowner said there wasnt any food out this time. >> no food. i only make mistakes once so i put the food up. i guess he was just checking back. >> the bear sniffed around for a few minutes and then he left. the homeowner is considering building a fence around his backyard to keep the bear out. >> it is 19 after the top of the hour. coming out it was supposed to be a smooth landing instead a plane full of passengers almost dissent greats when it touches d...

And its audio of a nasa tragedy. >> flight controllers here looking very carefully at the situation. obviously a major malfunction. >> beyonce now defending her decision to use that clip from the challenger disaster. her reason why and your reaction. first and friends first starts right now. ♪ good morning, you are