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Years white house correspondents dinner that a clinton victory in november is inevitable. >> next year at this time, someone else will be standing here in this very spot and its anyones guess who she will be. >> reporter: the clinton campaign is not shying away from its embrace of the obama factor. >> i think the president is going to back the nominee very quickly. >> and its very likely that well see a lot of president obama out on the campaign trail once there is a democratic nominee. a white ...

A military thumbs up officially from the cockpit of those search crews who were looking for the plane that crashed nearly two weeks ago carrying 66 men, women, and children. it is over the mediterranean and a french search team said theyre zeroing in at least one of that planes black boxes. the flight data recorder, cockpit voice recorder, whichever one it is, it will hopefully tell them what brought the plane down. were talking about the data recorders at this point but not the greater signs of...

One that can change their lives if a landing can needs to be aborted for any reason. captain hut supervises a touch and go formed by a british pilot during training. >> he was a fully winged pilot. he was getting familiarization. >> hut takes over. >> i said, okay, hes been flying for a year and a half. i can had at least a minute on the stick so thats when i did the touch and go. >> but then both pilots are rocked by what happens next. a single bird gets sucked into the jets engine. >> when you...

He has flown for more than two decades. with thousands of hours logged, hes among canadas best. >> i was transferred to the flight instructor school where i was an instructor. >> instructors fly with students in the hawk 155. this jet is a one-engine two-seat aircraft. on training missions, the student pilot flies in the front seat and instructor pilots like hut fly in the back seat. >> when we sign the plane out, the instructor is in charge of the plane for the mission. we have a camera in the ...

Feet per second is probably a fatal rate. >> so what went wrong? investigators find the wing of a small bird in the wreckage. its a franklins gull, common to the air field but generally too small to do this much damage so it makes sense when investigators find that the gull isnt the only thing that the engine has ingested. >> as the bird came down the side on my aircraft, it actually hit the probe before it ended up going in the engine. >> and the metal probe, a sensor that indicates the planes ...

Airplane, there is a minimum detonating cord that explodes the canopy around your head so the seat can can go through faster. its a big huge explosion. i remember one of the biggest memories of the whole event was the big white flash right in my face. it felt like i exploded myself. then the seat goes up to 20 g acceleration as it takes you up the rail. the ejection force itself, i really remembered it very strong pain in my back and when the chute opened up again, it was just a reconfirmed the ...

Gone. >> with no thrust from his only engine, hut has only one option. >> when that bird went in the engine, i knew i had to eject and i was just not looking forward to doing it. the ejection system is designed to get your body away from the crash site. youre not expected to get out of the situation unscathed. its a very violent thing. i know pretty well every situation where two people have injected out of the same plane. at least one of them is hurt, if not fatally. >> hut takes advantage of t...

Pilots signed saying the plane was in normal condition with no issues. that coincides with french statements that the plane passed inspection before takeoff. >> well, the planes data and cockpit voice recorders are still missing. the jet crashed into the mediterranean last thursday with 66 people onboard. now, it has been six days since the flight disappeared from radar, and there are no clear answers on why it went down. >> brian todd reports on the evidence investigators are working with so fa...

The recorders which likely hold the answers to what happened to the doomed passenger jet are submerged in as much as 10,000 feet of water. their battery which search crews depend on for locater signals will run out in just a few weeks. the rough terrain in the ocean floor and the size of the search area are making things even more difficult. >> its an area almost the size of connecticut. so you can imagine how tough it is to search this area and to find the clues and bring them all to shore and ...

The search for the black boxes from egyptair flight 804 is intensifying tonight. search crews hoping to pick up their signals before the batteries die. our aviation correspondent, rene marsh, has the very latest for us. the sense of urgency clearly growing. >> thats right, wolf. the search crews pulling more small bits of wreckage and human remains from the ocean. but its now been a week since the plane disappeared off radar, and they still cannot find the jets black boxes. so egyptian authoriti...