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Officials must reassess their strategy against crime. fox 59 in indianapolis with a stormy and dangerous day in the hoosier state. a tornado producing storm damage, homes, southwest of indianapolis and downed power lines and uprooted trees in the city. and its suburbs. no injuries reported so far. and this is a live look at san francisco. big story there tonight a finding by the ntsb that pilot error was the cause of the crash. it found fault with maker boeing. thats tonights live look outside...

So they want to see the work. some family members from the passengers are saying they want to take it, and they will take this data to experts for another set of eyes. should there be some kind of protocol to oversee that? because i cant blame the families for wanting to do that. >> you know, families do that in every accident, no matter what the cause of an accident. pilot error, icing errors, whatever. they want to find everything out. and particularly here, where they dont have the plane and ...

This time a pair of united airlines airbus a-320s came within 400 feet of one another taking off from houstons bush international continental airport. passengers didnt notice anything but the sound from the cockpit shows how close these planes came to disaster. >> 601, do you know what happened there? >> basically cross directly over the top of each other. thats what it looked like from my perspective. i have no idea what was going on up there in the tower. it was pretty narly looking. >> its th...

The table as far as im concerned. there are very real potential theories that we should be looking at. and this, im afraid, doesnt qualify at the moment. >> arthur rosenberg, we have a question from christine. "how can the families file suit if they dont know what happened? it could have been pilot error or a hijacking." >> sure, the answer is under the montreal convention, they can file a lawsuit right now against malaysia airlines. theres really no credible evidence yet, we dont have physical ...

Concerned. there are very real potential theories that we should be looking at. and this, im afraid, doesnt qualify at the moment. >> arthur rosenberg, we have a question from christine. "how can the families file suit if they dont know what happened? it could have been pilot error or a hijacking." >> the short answer is, under the montreal convention, they can file a lawsuit right now against malaysia airlines. theres really no credible evidence yet, we dont have physical evidence of a product ...

Case isnt ripe yet. where is the plane? there is no evidence to say boeing is liable or culpable from any problem or failure on any part of equipment. we dont know what caused the plane to go down. we actually dont know where the plane is, so how can a judge in good conscience take this into a court and provide family members money damages when we dont know the full circumstances. >> so if it was faulty equipment, boeing would be on the hook -- >> yeah, faulty equipment or -- but then you have t...

Often than not what makes a plane go down is the plane itself? that its not going to be about the pilots or something nefarious, its going to be about more likely these warnings that were out about the 7 77 that you guys have been talking about from the beginning about different structure cracks and problems with the wings, et cetera. >> right. people will fault me for saying this because everybody thinks pilot error is the single most common cause and it is for the approximate cause. because th...

Planes. what happened to all those patents? cnns zain asher joins us with a look at some of these technology. >> reporter: since air france 447 crashed youre seeing hundreds of engineers coming from massive corporations like l3 and honey well, others quote unquote mom and pop inventors trying to create a way for black boxes to be retrieved faster. honey well has created a way of capturings the audio in the cockpit and converting it intex and if there was an merge or warning it would send the las...

Using rudimentary photographs to document information. in 1942, finland introduced the first modern flight recorder, measuring more than half a dozen data points. the machine was dubbed the matahari, named after the double agent made famous after world war i. >> a revolutionary new aircraft. >> reporter: one of the first jet-powered commercial airliners dubbed comet. asked to help in the investigation, he had lost his own father in a similar wreck and was motivated to prevent more. in a 1985 int...

Format. >> we connect the recorder to a power supply. >> reporter: black boxes contain hundreds of data points or parameters about the flights movement, pilot maneuvers, speed and altitude, all displayed with a series of graphs. >> every flight data recorder records the data in binary values. its a series of ones and zeros. in order for humans to understand that, we need to convert it into engineering units, and engineering units simply mean feet for altitude. airspeed is recorded in knots. >> r...