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According to the company. that it was operator error was how they described it. but, of course, the corrections officers there say, no, nobody pressed it. >> you see this one guy in the orange shorts, hes the one who hops the railing. hops the balcony. clearly theyre after him. who is he? >> well, you know, kenneth williams is a reputed gang member. hes a pretty, apparently, you know, notorious person within law enforcement. supposedly runs a gang at a housing project up there. hes no saint if y...

Projectiles go over 1,000 feet from that location. and thats scary. >> luckily, no one is killed. >> it was an act of fate or an act of god that those projectiles were hitting things like empty freeways. >> randy bibb spends more than a month in the hospital. the fire changes his life forever. >> i didnt know the next day when i got up if id be able to go ten minutes without having to hay back down, you know. so i havent worked since then. its been tough. >> an investigation concludes, the fire ...

Commuter trains in these spanish high speed trains travel at very different speeds, but certainly there is a room to suspect there could be an element of operator error here and also in that italian bus crash we hear that there werent any even skid marks on the road, did the driver have time to brake or did he just fail to brake and so i think that thats something the crash investigators is going to be looking at in all three accidents, but of course there may be technical issues here that inves...

Wednesday. karl pennhall is out front and what is the latest on the crash in switzerland tonight? >> erin, of course night has fallen across the crash site there in switzerland, and the latest we are hearing is the fire fighters and paramedics are still on the scene. we know that they have taken away 40 people who were injured there, five of those seriously. we also understand that the fire fighters are still trying to cut into the cabin of the train, the engine itself, because they havent found...

In, erin. >> all right. and, carl, obviously, operator error, i know, is now being looked at front and center in the spain train crash, where youre standing tonight. but could operator error be a factor in all of these horrible accidents? >> reporter: i think you have to look at the types of vehicles. yes, weve got -- weve got trains here, but commuter trains and these spanish high-speed trains travel at very different speeds. but certainly there is room to suspect that there could be an element...

Too unusual until you consider he never, never, gets close to non-korean media and television cameras, never, and there he was walking past cnn cameras in pyongyang while the crowd allowed him. he didnt say anything, but his bodyguards did allow photographers and video cameras to get closer to him than ever before. he was opening a memorialns who korean conflict. operator error thats what police are blaming for wednesdays deadly train derailment in spain. the trains engineer has been accused o...

This accident to recover as quickly as possible and theyre all in my prayers. >> now to explosive train derailment in quebec. 30 people missing are presumed dead. he previously suggested that firefighters may have been responsible for shutting off the air brakes of some of the cars. but yesterday, he said that the disaster was likely called by operator error. >> this was a failure of the brakes. its very questionable whether the brakes, the hand brakes were properly applied on this train. as a m...

In jeopardy of breaking a limb. >> because this was a foreign crew investigators did not have the legal authority to issue drug or alcohol tests on them. so that did not occur. one point of clarification here, when we talked about the auto throttles not holding the minimum speed, there is some discussion now about whether that was because of operator error. did the crew understand how the auto throttles system worked on this plane. it differs from plane to plane, boeing to boeing plane. was it o...

On flight aware as well. the flight comes in from the northwest. this is the way it came in from this direction. it flies along the coast. once it makes its way to san francisco it spins around and banks to the left and approaches the runway from the southeast. >> it generally does that because of the potential wind shears or just because of the topography there? >> im not an expert on this but part of it is the lay out. you can see how they brought out the runways in this direction. there is a ...

Its path. at hardest hit plaza towers elementary. a third grade class huddled in hallway of their school. worried parents sent to a staging area at a nearby church in search of answers. with each passing hour the operation went from a rescue to a recovery mission. the heart wrenching reality of the storms fury hard to comprehend. >> all right. communications here are tough. lets try to get a microphone back on pam there. operator error. its one of the things you deal with out in the field. one o...