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It, to start. and that usually is predicated on you going a lot faster. the airbus dual engine failure checklist assumes the engines have failed at cruising altitude. 30,000 feet would have given the pilots ample time to figure things out. hitting a flock of canada geese at just 3,000 feet, thats another story. what at this point is going through your mind? >> at this point im thinking, this cant be happening to me. >> if the engines werent producing thrust why wouldnt the plane have fallen from...

Flight has a mechanical problem and ends up in a virtual no-mans land. too far to go back or forward. when the plane meets the water, there are violent consequences. the aircraft ends up in pieces. miraculously, everyone on board survives. over the caribbean sea, a dc-9 has had a staggering chain reaction of bad weather and bad luck, runs out of fuel. the violent impact kills 23 of 63 on board. and in the most famous case, a jet has the misfortune of running into a flock of canada geese. all on ...

>> reporter: some of theat mandatory evacuation orders were lifted today so some people areg going back to their homes, butgh firefighters still have quite a bit of work to do, scott. s they say they will be putting out hot spots until at least monday. >> pelley: ben tracy in the part of california thats already burned up. ben, thanks. tonight too much rain is on ai collision course with taiwan. this is typhoon soudelor churning the pacific with gusts of 120 miles per hour.he it could drop 20 in...

Massacre, jurors deciding whether james holmes will be executed heard from ashley moser. she lost her six-year-old daughter and an unborn child, and she now uses a wheelchair. she told the jury, "i dont know who i am anymore." today, malaysia confirmed what we all suspected-- debris on an island in the indian ocean is from the boeing 777 that vanished nearly 18 months ago with 239 people on board. heres kris van cleave. >> reporter: after 515 days of searching, todays confirmation of the debris ...

Tonight, the wing section that could unlock the mystery of malaysia flight mh370 has arrived in france for analysis as investigators hunt for more clues on the small island of reunion off madagascar, more than 2,000 miles from where the boeing 777 may have crashed. jonathan vigliotti is on the scene. >> reporter: the wing fragment called a flaperon arrived by police escort at a french military facility near toulouse. officials say it, along with the remains of a suitcase, will be analyzed on wed...

And, one giant leap. a team of 164 skydivers setting a world record over illinois today. locking up hands at 240 miles per hour. forming a giant flower, at about 20,000 feet in the air. they jumped out of seven planes. it took 13 tries to get it right. when we come back -- the little boy and the team making him smile. theyre our persons of the week. am! a minivan t-bones you. guess what: your insurance company will only give you 37-thousand to replace it. "depreciation" they claim. "how can my...

Victor? lets bring in mary schiavo. she is former inspector general at the department of transportation. good to have you with us. i want to start with putting this in some terms that a lot of us remember the story of the miracle on the hudson. if you have this flock of birds that took out that plane, both engines there, what kind of damage could this drone do? >> without a doubt, a drone would take out the jet engine. there is a limit to even what kind of a bird an engine can take. it cant ta...

Who only called police after a google search pointed him to mh370. the part, called a flaperon, helps the plane turn and slow down on approach for landing by pivoting down. the numbers 657bb found in this boeing 777 maintenance manual match numbers found on the barnacle-covered debris. and what does that barely damaged piece of wreckage tell us? it may support early evidence that someone was at the controls, first deliberately turning off course and finally trying to make the plane disappear alt...

That conclusion will be made by french and australian investigators. david? >> jim avila leading us off tonight. thank you. i want to bring in retired colonel steve ganyard, a pilot himself. i want to take our viewers back to that piece of wing because the angle of that flap and how intact the debris is, as you heard jim report there, leading some to believe that someone might have deliberately done this. what do you think tonight? >> david, i think youre right here. there are two scenarios at t...

Is thought to have crashed. but its this coast that has now given investigators perhaps their biggest clue yet. more than 500 days into this mystery. the eyes of the aviation world are focused on this debris which investigators are now convinced is the flat of an aircraft wing. which aircraft isnt clear yet. but they now believe a part number 657 bb proves its from a boeing 777. only one of those is missing, malaysia 370. they are examining the damage and the encrusted shells on the piece that w...