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Three persons allegedly held on to a wheel of a US plane flying out of Kabul and are seen falling to their death in one of the multiple videos showing insane attempts by Afghans to escape Taliban rule.

The second he stepped off plane. they had teams here at the airport and prosecutors were on stand by around the clock for days. torshin never showed. the commander francisco martinez says the case was closed. >> we hope that he come here, but at the end, no come here so -- >> cant do anything. >> i call in. >> in the end, no come here. turns out to have been a very valuable tip that guy got, right? aleksandr, whoin was a senator

At the time spanish prosecutors have been putting together a story about what they believed. they pieced tailgate a web of covert, financial and money laundering dealings about torshin and his friend. the spanish police knew torshin was mplanning oncoming in for te birthday party and planned to arre arrest him on his arrival. he was apparently tipped off he would get arrested when he landed so he cancelled his trip. >> spanish judicial sources say they were investigating allegations in 2013 torc...

In the number two enen. >> but the situation is not what the pilots suspect. it was the plane trying to survive. >> seconds later, engine one fails. the concords chances of making the airfield rapidly diminished. >> now you have two engines trying to do the work of four. off plane that hasnt built up enough flying speed and controllability issue and plane on fire. >> the plane was totally

Dump. that was also the time unknown to me that the aircraft began experiencing a series of critical systems failures. >> the plane begins to lose altitude. >> within a minute, they had lost several critical systems. they lost radio contact and very soon after that, we lost the transponder. >> inside the cockpit, a nightmare scenario is unfolding. fire has breached the ceiling, dripping molten aluminum on to the flight deck. they lose control of the plane and plunge into the ocean at 345 miles a...

Welcome to whats next. comcastnbcuniversal. the tensions or russia. a top tide president obama says its possible russia is preparing to take more of ukraine. moscow is amassing troops along the eastern border them massive mudslide north of seattle claimed four lives. 18 people, maybe more, are still missing. now back to "why planes crash." a dc-9 takes off from miami international airport and begins its assent. as it reaches 10,000 feet, fire breaks out in the cargo hold. moments later, the pi...

They get a cockpit warning indication there is believed to be a fire in the number two engine. >> once the plane reaches a critical speed, it cannot stop. >> typically for a pilot when you have a problem and you are committed to flight, which this flight was, they want to crawl to a safety altitude before they take action. >> the ability to fly is compromised by the fire. >> when he has the plane flying, he is heavy, low and slow. thats a critical point for a pilot. a minute after takeoff the ...

>> in the wake of the swissair 111 crash, the airline industry is forced to re-evaluate their procedures for in-flight fires. flammability testing becomes more rigorous. insulation blankets are manufactured from more flame resistant materials. and the certification and maintenance of wiring becomes more stringent. >> swissair 111 was a watershed event in how pilots deal with in-flight smoke and fire conditions. after that, pilots recognized how quickly things could go wrong. >> what makes fire s...

Given a 15-month suspended prison sentence for going against industry norms to forge the piece of metal that fell to the ground. >> i dont think that that piece of metal brought the airplane down. i think it played a factor in the cause of the accident but i dont think it was the sole responsible cause of the accident. >> even before the verdict, the -- i dont think it was the sole, responsibility cause. aviation industry agrees on drastic safety changes. debris on the runway is now seen as an e...

>> we found the part of a tank and small parts of the plane. we found also something which was not from the plane. it was a strip of metal. it was not a part of the concorde and it had nothing to do on the runway. >> how this piece of metal could have contributed to the crash is at first unclear, until another crucial clue is discovered. >> you can think of it as a jigsaw puzzle. what they found is they reassembled the tire parts that were on the runway that the pattern matched the piece of meta...