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The conclusion, pilot error. in an attempt to recover from ice crystals affecting their speed sensors, the pilots pointed the nose upward rather than downward. 13 years before that crash there was twa flight 800, conspiracy theorists believe we still dont know the truth. was it a bomb, a missile, or mechanical failure that brought the jet down just 12 minutes after takeoff from new yorks jfk airport. it was july 17th, 1996. all 230 people on board the paris-bound 747 were killed. 4,000 interview...

Ethiopian airline high jakd his own flight to switzerland. the pilot of an egypt passenger jet flew the plane into the ocean after takeoff from kennedy airport in new york. and pilot error has been tied to the mysterious air france flight into the atlantic when reports say pilots flew into dangerous weather and failed to take proper action. u.s. authorities tell abc news that the homes of the two malaysia air pilots have been searched, looking for any clues into the mystery of why and how this p...

Figure this out. the oddest thing, the black box gives a ping and that has not been picked up at this point. then you have the transponder shut off. i talked to a 777 pilot who said that could be turned off by the pilots, if theyen watted to turn it off, but why would theyen watt to turn it off. thats odd, right? >> its all very odd. the australian women who were in the cockpit with the pilots beforehand. it does not look like pilot error, if the plane had broken up, they would have found a debr...

Of the safest jets on the planet that. doesnt mean the 777 doesnt have problems. renee marsh is out front. >> reporter: with more than 1100 boeing 777s worldwide having flown roughly 5 million flights, capable of carrying more than 1 billion people, its considered one of the safest in the sky. but now with the disappearance of malaysia airline flight 370, the plane is under the microscope. the first 777 rolled off the assembly line in the early 90s. now its flown by almost every major airline. a...

Into thin air. more than five days now, and still more questions than answers on what happened to that missing malaysian jetliner. authorities admit they dont know which way the plane was going when it vanished with 239 people on board. the malaysian military now says its radar has tracked the plane as it doubled back over the malaysian mainland and a small island in the strait of malaca. officials say mechanical failure, pilot error, sabotage or terrorism are all still causes of the disappearan...

Mechanical, including maintenance and manuals, pilot error and weather. we dont have a weather component that we know of. the odds are, it will be a mechanical and pilot error, terrorism actually ranks far less than the number of accidents. and because it is a boeing, boeing will be there in full force. theres 1,000 reasons for them to participate, and its called 777. >> a lot being made of the fact that the pilots didnt communicate. pilots didnt communicate then either, even though they were wr...

Stage, with clear skies and a veteran pilot. then it disappeared from radar. no warning, no distress call. there were conflicting reports about whether it may have tried to turn back. >> nothing causes an airplane to come down from 35,000 feet, other than things that can be catastrophic. >> reporter: things like total structural failure, loss of both engines, complete electrical failure or pilot error. two passengers who boarded using stolen passports have raised concerns about terrorism. >> the...

Days to find the debris field. >> and then terrorism not the biggest concern in terms of what most like happened. whats the first most likely scenario? >> the first is the ntsb in three-fourths of the cases find something wrong in how the pilots flew the flight. they always say youve got to watch your air speeds, your throttles and artificial horzens and youve got to coordinate. between this, the pilot in command and the first officer, they have to watch. on air france 447, they did not watch th...

Families hold out hope that a michael may still be possible. our thoughts are with all of them and all of those family members waiting for those and those still searching. that does it for us, well be back at 11:00 p.m. eastern tonight. make sure you check out the case with sunny hostin and mark geragos at 10:30 eastern time. peeshz morgan live tonight, vanished, where is flight 370. friday night when we first came on the air to tell you live about the missing malaysian airliner 777, 239 peopl...

The airbus 330 with 228 people aboard vanished beyond radar on a flight from rio de janeiro to paris. >> reporter: people that go on the planes want to know what happened. >> reporter: it took search crews five days to find any debris and two years to locate the plane and its flight recorders on the ocean floor. eventually, they determined mechanical failure and pilot error were to blame. then, there was egypt air flight 990. it too went down mysteriously killing 217 people. like the malaysia ai...