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Struggling. >> reporter: this shows the landing gear near the seawall, the glide path on target but the speed way too slow. three seconds before impact the plane just above the batter is doing just 118 miles per hour. it should be doing around 158. >> this is not something that i expected to ever view in my career. >> reporter: first responders coming forward. one police officer jumped into the burning plane. >> we saw the black plume of smoke coming in, like something out of a nightmare. >> rep...

You cross over where the water meets the runway, that seawall, you should be 200 feet in the air. and clearly with this flight, that was not the case. >> im here with the flight instructor. were taking the exact same path that the 777 took into sfo on a parallel runway. whats going through your mind as you approach? >> right now i have to make sure my air speed is sufficient. making sure i dont go below my minimum approach speed. which i am currently way above that right now. so right now i look...

Up to that flight. they want to know what their sleep schedules were, how they were feeling, their health. they want to look at everything that happened in that cockpit. they want to look specifically at what that plane was doing as it was coming in. they say it was on a normal glide path all the way into san francisco airport. 82 seconds before that plane hit the embankment here, the pilot disengaged the auto pilot. there was a slow and normal decent into the airport but as it got closer and cl...

>> we have heard there were some problems inside the aircraft. we need to understand why that happened. >> theyre [ bleep ] running. >> oh my god. >> reporter: eventually dozens of emergency vehicles surrounded the plane. the possibility a plane crash victim was struck by an emergency worker vehicle now part of the investigation. >> we are reviewing airport surveillance video. >> reporter: united 885 waiting to take off. >> we see people and i think they need assistance and they are alive and wa...

The flames really develop. what do investigators know about the seconds, the seconds, before the crash? i know that debra hersman, the chair of the national transportation safety board, shes walked through, but there are some specifics that you have. >> reporter: yeah. they have put out information from the flight data recorders d from the voice recorders in the cockpit to try to piece together and give us raw data about what they know about what happened seconds before that crash. they say it w...

Into an airport. they fly all around the world, there are a lot of different destinations. what you want to do is have a crew thats proficient in the aircraft and works together well. that you have good crew pairings, thats important. >> arthur walk, whats your assessment thus far of the experience issue? >> i think 43 hours, which the captain had, is not an unreasonably low amount of experience for the 777. remember, he had over 10,000 hours flying big airplanes, like 747s. thats not unusual. w...

Lay terms, tell me on what equipment am i relying if im the captain that tells me where to land the aircraft? >> all right. the pilots looking outside, because this is a visual approach. hes looking at the runway, and he can see the touchdown zone of the runway. thats the part that weve all seen as passengers or pilots. thats the part where all the skid marks are, about 1,100 feet down the runway. now, thats the aiming point. thats where he wants to touch down. and hes got to adjust the air spee...

It was simply unstabilized. and a go-around should have been, in fact is mandated to be required in order to avoid an accident. >> put me in that cockpit and in lay terms, tell me on what equipment am i relying if im the captain that tells me where to land the aircraft? >> all right. the pilots looking outside, because this is a visual approach. hes looking at the runway, and he can see the touchdown zone of the runway. thats the part that weve all seen as passengers or pilots. thats the part wh...

Military analyst and he joins us live. good morning to you, chuck. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: we know now the reason it was dipping its tail in san francisco bay and hit that seawall is because it was going too slow. and you have drawn up a diagram that essentially shows what happened. >> yeah. steve, if i could, ill hold this up. what happened is you start -- here is the glide path that takes you to the desired point of touchdown on the runway. if you start too high and coming downhill, ...

Aircraft was turned in for the approach on the runway, were they turned in too high, too fast. did the pilot say anything about, im not in a position to land? i need some more room to get aircraft down, to be in a position where i can make a landinon the runway. they are going to look at why pulled the power back. why he dove the airplane down and then trying to add power to get the air plan to respond, so that it wouldnt be too low on an approach path. an airplane like this takes between seven ...