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Nance, he doesnt think that anyone without experience could have done it. tom foreman is "outfront" tonight. with this latest reporting from abc, and then the shutdown of the systems. youve been looking at the systems. what can you tell us? >> well, i know john. the most important thing he said was, take this with a grain of salt. airplanes are floating communication stations. it took off, traveled for an hour, then vanished with absolutely no information. so many ways that it could

Couldnt come up with a stranger situation. even if we find the wreckage in one of the oceans, this is still unprecedented. >> and the crucial question of intent as well. thanks very much. appreciate it, john. >> thank you. we have tom foreman here. i want to bring you back in. what about this, as you heard john talking about this. hes never seen anything like this. even if its found on the flight path, this is unprecedented. >> absolutely. and i want to show you one thing. the acars system, he...

The 6-foot-long skull of a long- extinct creature. its tough to make out there, but its believed to have once belonged to a 25-foot-long whale. and joining us on the phone is john nance, and hes one of the men who discovered or recovered this fossil. so, john, lets start there. just tell us the story. how did you find it was even there, and what did it take to get it out of the ground? >> hi, how are you doing? back in june of this year i got a call from one of my colleagues down here at stratfo...

Seaboard here all the way up to d.c. d.c. was the waterfront property of the time. and so back then this area was teeming with whales, crocodiles, sharks, and this is where the whale happened to die. and as the potomac river erodes the cliffs here at stratford hall, bone is exposed, and thats how we came to find this whale skull. jenna: john, did you find any other part of it beyond the skull, and how different is the whale that you found, the whale that would be 15 million years old, how differ...

Gps coordinates. we proceeded to get permission from stratford hall and actually excavate the whale skull. jenna: and stratford hall, just for our viewers, that is the place where it was the original home of the lee family of virginia, robert e. lee was born there in this area, on that land? >> that is correct. it is the birthplace of robert e. lee. kelly: so, john, that makes it unusual because no one would ever anticipate that a whale would be that far inland because youre talking about the po...

Investigators are looking for new clues into the new images of flight 214 just before it crashed. one shows the plane close to the water even before it reached the runway. the other showing the jet almost tumbling after it slammed down. >> abc aviation consultant john nance tells us what he sees in the images and why the pilot signaled he wanted to abort the landing just seconds before he touched down. >> they were very low, much too low for a normal approach. they were probably 200, 300 feet be...

Its a terrifying plane crash caught on video. a private cargo plane crashed near bagram air force base in afghanistan. you see the videotape there. want to bring in john nance. as we look at this -- its just horrific and it just looks like slow motion, but thats realtime seeing this giant cargo plane flying and suddenly just kind of take a dive and slowly soar and then crash to the ground. its difficult to know at this point what happened because theyre still investigating. just from your vantag...

Caused accidents before, when it has rotateded with the nose up, it is moved aft. >> reporter: cargo is chained down, but if one of the chain attachments fails, it could shift. >> we dont know that that happened here. that has happened in prior accidents. then the airplane becomes uncontrollable. >> reporter: chris lawrence, cnn, washington. >> joining me now is john nance, good to have you on the program. sorry under these circumstances. ive never seen anything like this. its everybodys nightma...

What youre seeing here. the fact is they dont have apertures doing these things. its done precisely. they are restrained with chains and with things that tie them down. those things can break. >> ive flown out of bagram. you get up high as quickly as possible while youre still over bagram airbase for safety reasons. do you have no doubt that sort of exacerbates a situation like this, the chance of the stall? >> yeah, it does. i mean, any time that youre trying to get out of an area and get up hi...