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>> just for that to happen the u.s. military had to reestablish flight controls and radar at that airport. our great thanks to you dave gram after what we know is a difficult day every day, working conditions and living conditions on the ground, slow going on the ground in puerto rico. another break for us tonight. well stay on the story. a veteran of the senate, a moderate voice in the republican party says this term will be his last term in the senate. well look at what that means for it the p...

Between flights between the mainland and u.s. have approached normality. >> just for that to happen the u.s. military had to reestablish flight controls and radar at that airport. our great thanks to you dave gram after what we know is a difficult day every day, working conditions and living conditions on the ground, slow going on the ground in puerto rico. another break for us tonight. well stay on the story. a veteran of the senate, a moderate voice in the republican party says this term will ...

Curiosity is answers for the families and justice for the lives lost, if it is appropriate. lets get more with david soucie, former faa accident investigator and inspector. david, while we wait for answers, the good news is they have the black boxes. they believe they are intact. what will you know conclusively when that information is downloaded? >> as soon as the boxes come out, chris, it will be put against a time line. that time line will show various things throughout the aircraft. you have...

Come to the cockpit. the minute the door opened the atmosphere just hit me full force. it was like oh, no, this isnt an emergency. its a bleep, bleep crisis. >> the situation is grave. the plane has lost all of its hydraulic fluid. >> hydraulics in a modern large jet airplane is the lifeblood of the airplane. it is how you physically move the flight controls. it provides the muscle to move these very large surfaces against very fast moving air in a controlled manner. >> we were keeping an ear, i...

>> right after i called god, the pressure dropped down. >> reporter: after falling 30,000 feet in less than 2 1/2 minutes the nose begins to pitch up and the airplane levels out at 9500 feet. >> the captain used very artful flying to recover the aircraft from the bad situation. unfortunately it was the same pilot who put the airplane in to that situation. >> reporter: flight 006 is no longer in a nose dive but they are not out of danger. the crew realizes with drag from the landing gear they won...

>> right after i call god, the sound disappear and the pressure drop down. >> finally after falling more than 30,000 feet in less than two and a half minutes, the nose begins to pitch up and the airplane levels out at 9,500 feet. >> the captain used very artful flying to recover the aircraft from the bad situation. unfortunately, it was that same pilot who put the airplane in that bad situation. >> flight 006 is no long near a nosedive but they are not out of danger. the crew realizes with drag ...

>> but when they did that, they no longer had air flow across the flight controls. >> they did a very good job of trying to get control of the airplane. but they just didnt have enough altitude and enough time to do it. >> the plane staggers up to 325 feet. as its rolled on to its side and now slowed down, it is uncontrollable, and goes into a nose dive. >> american 191, heavy. want to come back into what runway? >> hes not talking to me. >> well, hes going to lose awareness. there he goes. ther...

The minute the door opened the atmosphere just hit me full force. it was like oh, no, this isnt an emergency. its a [ bleep ] crisis. >> the situation is grave. the plane has lost all of its hydraulic fluid. >> hydraulics in a modern large jet airplane is the lifeblood of the airplane. it is how you physically move the flight controls. it provides the muscle to move these very large surfaces against very fast moving air in a controlled manner. >> we were keeping an ear, ill put it that way. cont...

>> i would believe there are other parts out there. when you look at the flaps, the other flight controls, those are the most fragile on an airplane. they were only held on by hinge brackets and etc. you are going to find those type of flight controls. they will be buoyant. they may be sub surface, just below the surface so they may be difficult to detect until they are washed up. -- >> so let me ask you. would you in a situation like this when you have found this debris, and i would say perhaps...

Airline sector, nothing happen that had would this anyway affect the mechanical situation with the planes. or the navigation for that matter. all of that communication happens on completely separate and secure networks. but when you talk about the reservation system and apparently were looking at some route their connects to the reservation system youre looking at something that is much more open. no one has said that they expect any sort of deliberate attack but airline reservation systems are ...