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Photographed by their mom ready to bod. human error wasnt to blame. investigators will look the everything. >> the weather, the way the airplane was fueled, the cargo, everything about it. >> reporter: the plane crashed in an area where militants are fighting egypts army. allies of isis claim they shot down the plane. officials dismissed that, saying the militants dont have the missiles to do it. the airline metrojet has been grounded by russian authorities who have had serious concerns about it...

Course. >> the russians have had challeng challenges. i was in moscow in 1995, before they started buying boeing aircraft. there were flats under disrepair. they have made some progress. but they have had a troubling track record with maintenance, human error. i think it was a 2011 loss of an aircraft based on human error with their hockey team on board. theres others as well. the aviation safety process for international civil aviation and the russians, i understand, are sending a commission wi...

In our last discussion, the state-run television reporting they found one of those boxes. >> a crucial piece of evidence obviously. this investigation is only just gi beginning. we just heard from one of the russian aviation regulators who says its simply too early to say what caused this plane to fall out of the sky. whether it was a technical malfunction, whethers there what an outside force that caused this plane to go down or whether this was a human error on the part of the pilots. we can t...

And subsequently climbed to about 15,000 feet which it maintained while we were monitoring it and prior to it beginning to deflate and land in montour county. >> was the cause of this human error or something sinister? or was it simply something else? >> i certainly wouldnt speculat speculate on that, wolf. i think were going to be investigating this thoroughly. in the meantime theres a second aerostat associated with this system which will be grounded conducted. but at this point we dont know w...

Want to talk about iran, russia, syria, all that in a moment but this military blimp that simply got untethered, floating around pennsylvania. this is billions of dollars invested in these blimps and some suggested this is a waste of money. have you looked into the program? >> we had general briefings on this so far. there hasnt been any blame but obviously there is clearly human error in this. this shouldnt happen under ordinary circumstances. >> remember when the gyro cop ter was floating arou...

Even curvier. but whats next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. an update now for you from vermont. all seven people injured in mondays train derailment are now home from the hospital. the governor said a rock slide, not human error was to blame, but the ntsb is still investigating. service should be restored by this weekend. amtrak told congress today, it will be forced to suspend some service on its national network if ...

Sorry, this is a serious story, folks. >> oh, my gosh, this is crazy. what is going on. they kept on going and going. finally after about two minutes we went to a commercial break. >> it turns out the out-of-control graphics were the result of a computer malfunction. >> i was the weather anchor and also the news anchor. right before the show started the weather computer completely crashed. i had to run back and reload everything. thats when the graphics started popping up on the screen. >> and t...

>> the crew suspects nothing more than a faulty light bulb. the co-pilot starts to replace it, but he cant get the new bulb to go in. >> they fought with this thing for several minutes. the captain then instructed the flight engineer to go down and see if he could manually see an alignment stripe that is on the nose gear that you can see from a small view port down under the flight deck. >> but its just too dark to see. meanwhile, the captain and co-pilot are still struggling with the light bulb...

Commercial pilots have a minimum of 1,500 hours of flying time. >> beyond that, there are a score of other safety provisions. they would require the faa to get much more tough on pilot fatigue. they would require that the airlines disclose who is actually operating their flights so that no longer could people buy a ticket on colgan without knowing. so this legislation is very significant. >> the companies let them down a lot. they didnt give them the tools they needed is what it came down to. yo...

Control that they are waiting for instructions. >> these types of procedures were completely capable of being done before the accident. this was a totally preventable accident. across the country and nearly two decades later, another crash caused by human error. continental connection flight 3407 nears the buffalo airport for landing. the turbo prop suddenly pitches up, stalls, and goes into a series of terrifying rolls. the pilot fights to gain control, but the plane plummets 1,600 feet into ...