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High schools. they are dismaptling the wreckage. and the freeway is reopened to traffic. and awaiting the a arrival of the federal investigators with the national transportation safety board. they will look at vehicle operation and fire safety issues and human error as well. we are told that federal express and the opener of the charter bus are cooperating with the investigation. well get more information when a press conference begins here in this part of northern california in 15 minutes. sand...

Major trouble. claudey cowen is in will willoo, california. >> investigator -- federal investigators working with state agencies are focusing at least out the gate on the driver of the fedex truck, trying to figure out whether it was human error or possibly something went wrong with the truck or with the weather or with the road conditions. that prompted that big rig to veer over the center divide and slam head oninto the charter bus filled with more than 40 college hopefuls from l.a. area high ...

I can go back and look at the wings and tell by how theyre bent and malshaped. sooner or later, i will break this down to find out if theres any mechanical problems, in this case. there was absolutely no mechanical problems. this aircraft stalled, icing conditions, and it was a human error, and not a mechanical error. >> when it comes to many plane accidents, do you need to discern if it was human problem or if it was mechanical problems? >> i would say its never easy, but i could do the majorit...

But i want to bring in some of your experience here because its kind of an interesting point. you are what is known with the ntsb office. what exactly does that position entail? >> the u.n. specialists look at the underlying cause for human error. i was the ntsbs first, actually, they changed the name to human performance, but i was an aviation expert. sometimes we do a psychological autopsy, but often after we look at the recorders, the flight data will help you what happened. tippic ily we loo...

Strongly this was about human error and something doing something wrong. where does their confidence come from? >> they have created this ball of confusion from day one by not releasing proper information early enough. then when they release it, they revise it every day or three weeks later in this case. it does, it instills a lack of confidence when they do this. but i think is big part of this is just their really terrible media management, the way theyre conveying results or the progress of t...

>> when congress created us, one of the things that they asked us to do was to determine the probable cause. thats been a part of our statute for over 40 years. >> when you look at a complex accident like this, you cant look at one individual thing, you have to look at the interactions. once we can put that term pilot error, it makes us feel better that we found what went wrong. we dont need to look any further. we have our scapegoat, and we can all take comfort in the system and move forward fr...

Appear to be troubling, yes. what will become important is to take that same deep involved look at everyone on that plane. then you can start to put people in categories. that is the best way to do it. people in group one, not likely that they could have any involvement. then you narrow it down to people that could. they may or may not be people on the interpol list. you have to go much deeper than someone just appeared on interpol list or someone took flight training. you have to go much deeper...

>> soon, the massive hunt gets another lead. chinese satellites detect three floating objects. >> if true, this could be a very big break. and if the images do depict the wreckage, it would immediately refocus in investigation on what caused the crash. mechanical, human error or something else. >> but, this, too, leads to a dead end. no debris is found. then, on day 8, a startling revelation. >> good evening, the word from malaysia tonight is whatever happened to malaysia airlines flight 370 is ...

Identifies the contributing factors with the primary objective being prevention. if theres a lesson to be learned from this tragedy, its that there will always be human factors that lead to accidents. >> the lack of transponder information for a period of time from the embrere plane it caused problems for situational awareness for the air traffic controller. whether you are military or civilian, its the human soft and the human error that starts the sequence of events. when we come back, more ...

There is no sign of flight 370. >> soon, the massive hunt gets another lead. chinese satellites detect three floating objects. possible debris in the south china sea between malaysia and vietnam. >> if true, this could be a very big break. and if the images do depict the wreckage, it would immediately refocus in investigation on what caused the crash. mechanical, human error or something else. >> but, this, too, leads to a dead end. no debris is found. then, on day 8, a startling revelation. >> ...