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Projectiles go over 1,000 feet from that location, and thats scary. >> luckily, no one is killed. >> it was an act of fate or act of god that those projectiles were hitting things like empty freeways. >> randy bibb spends more than a month in the hospital. the fire changes his life forever. >> i couldnt just go out and work because i didnt know whether the next day when i got up if i would be able to go ten minutes without having to lay back down, you know. so i havent worked since then. its bee...

Just light me up. >> incredibly, randy and the three other people at the facility are all able to get out before the entire place erupts into an inferno. minutes later, dallas fire rescue arrives. >> once we got there, we werent sure exactly what was going on or why it was happening but we knew that we had a big problem with a lot of air cylinders. >> randy and a colleague are rushed to the hospital with multiple third degree burns. >> i was just all big bubbles everywhere. it was just crazy. fr...

And thats their choice. >> reporter: that is certainly what progressive insurance told us happened for this car. remember its the car we told you about earlier with the ripped tail frame that you could only spot with the boroscope. it was hit from behind. repaireded at a preferred insurance company shop. and sent back on the road with a ripped and hidden tail frame. it turns out the ripped tail frame isnt all that wasnt repaired. three or four tire rims are still damaged. the undercarriage of th...

Temperatures for long periods of time like they would in warmer weather. >> reporter: ice and snow can bring travel to a halt but the cold weather itself actually helps planes fly. >> the cold weather actually makes the airplanes fly better. the engines can produce more power and the wings produce more lift. >> reporter: they are designed and tested to handle frigid temperatures. before taking to the sky, this new airbus was put in a giant freezer in florida, minus 45 degrees, to make sure it co...

Flight data recorder reveals the jet was ascending at a rate of 6,000 feet a minute, three times greater than normal for the airbus a-320. the pilots were apparently trying to quickly climb above bad weather, but the data and radar information suggests the flight crew pulled the planes nose too high, likely causing the jet to stall and pitch over in a deadly dive. flight 8501, with 162 people on board, crashed into the water. the fuselage and tail shattered on impact. after listening to the plan...

Asia airlines flight 8501. and despite terrible weather once again hindering the search effort, crews have managed to recover several more victims. tonight, the search area has been drastically reduced in size. our report from nbcs katy tur. >> reporter: another day of rough seas and high winds as search teams recovered more than 20 bodies today. pulled from the java sea along with three large pieces of plane wreckage. but six days after the plane went missing there is still no confirmation of w...

Way they knew how. the key to understanding why the plane crashed lies in its black boxes, which ought to be relatively easy to find in the shallow waters of the java sea but bad weather is making that extremely difficult, and the prediction for the next two days are that it will get worse. jeff? >> glor: allen pizzey in surabaya. allen, thank you. flight 8501 vanished without any obvious indication of where itou went down. transportation correspondent jeff pegues reports airlines and regulators...

Trips. it is owned by ayers based in malaysia. the ceo took to twitter saying this is my worst nightmare air asia has never had a tragic accident. in march, malaysia flight 370 vanished over the ocean flying from kuala lumpur to beijing with 239 on board. no trace of the airliner has been found since. in july another malaysia flight was shot down over rebel held territory in ukraine. 298 passengers and crew members were killed. now what has become a familiar scene in southeast asia as loved ones...

Bin ladens hideout in afghanistan. now, while the senate report has publicly revealed graphic new details, the findings will not, apparently, lead to any criminal charges. the justice department, scott, has already examined these allegations and has decided not to prosecute any c.i.a. officials. >> pelley: bob, thank you. one senate republican supporting the report is john mccain. he was shot down over north vietnam in 1967 and as a p.o.w., he was tortured more than five years. >> i have long be...

To lose control, the flight engineer who has been hanging out and hanging onto the cable was able to get across the cab and hit a button which shirred the cable and essentially blew it off so i was no longer attached to the helicopter. the six crew members in the helicopter came to help jeremiah, but now theyre the ones who need help. look at the replay of the videotape. theyre ejected, and the hulking helicopter rolls over some of them twice on the way down. but the mountain has another miracle...