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Of emergency in pakistan in 2007 and suspended the institution. he is being tried for detaining senior judges and even the chief justice of the supreme court appearing they would challenge his re-election as president. still no word by a boeing 737 crashed while attempting to land in central russia on sunday. the flight had 50 people on board including the son of the republican. phil black is live from moscow this morning. any word on anything involving this investigation, phil? >> reporter: a...

The president setting up in tacloban where nearly every building was destroyed. the u.s. announced it is donating another $10 million to the relief effort. spectacular eruption from europes most active volcano. mount etna rumbled to life lighting up the sky over sicily. air space over the area did have to be temporarily closed. another deadly air crash in russia. the latest accident happened when a boeing 737 went down after trying to land. abc has this report from moscow. >> reporter: the p...

Investigators say this near collision in the sky was due to pilot error. what they do not know this morning is why these pilots got it so wrong. midair over scotland, two 747 jumbo jets carrying up to 1,000 passengers are on a path to collide. british investigators say its because the pilots didnt follow the instructions from air traffic control. >> this is very hard to explain because it appears that two airplanes with two pilots in each airplane, everybody got it wrong initially. >> reporter: ...

Seconds before impact. the u.p.s. cargo jet crashed near a runway in birmingham on wednesday and two pilots on board were killed. now investigators are looking into whether pilot error was to blame, including if the jet was too low. some lawmakers renewing calls to reform the national security agencys surveillance programs, this after documents leaked by edward snowden suggest that the agency has repeatedly broken privacy rules. now, the nsa calls them mistakes. jennifer griffin in washington ...

The pilots were warned moments before impact. the ntsb analyzing the black box on board the u.p.s. cargo plane that crashed in alabama this wednesday. the box recording two descent warnings 16 seconds before impact. the cargo jet falling short of a runway in birmingham, the two pilots on board killed. now investigators are looking into whether pilot error was to blame, including whether the jet was too low and hit trees before plowing into a hill near the runway. some new claims now that the u...

Gold faush, who understands this situate quite well. what you have does it that seem like? >> its interesting, the fact that there was no radio for any kind of help, indicates that it may have been pilot error, but the board is going to say very little this afternoon. its protocol. theyre going to talk about the g.o. teams. they will get the so-called black boxes, bring them back to washington. >> this was an airbus a-300. tell us about this plane. >> first of all, its an old plane, but this pla...

>> but an investigation by the national transportation safety board finds the crash could have easily been avoided. >> in this case, we obviously had a healthy live pilot to be able to talk to so thats where >> the ntsb determines the reason for engine failure, pilot error. the pilot ran out of gas and didnt switch over to his reserve fuel tank. >> in the hospital, he came up and i thanked him for saving our lives, because he did. he landed the craft, everybody walked away for the most part. how...

Last four seconds before landing. the plane landed nose first, something that should never happen. it caused the flights landing gear to punch up into the planes nose. can you see ter hoovment the plane scraped along the runway until it came to a stop. this is what it looked like inside a jet. a passenger gave us this video. investigators say the planes pilots swapped controls just moments before the touchdown. one passenger suedaging pilot error. we saw a dare devil work today live on "studio b...

2010 killed 11 workers and spilled an estimated 200 million gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico. southwest planes front landing gear collapsed on landing and now we know why. it could be pilot error caused the crash landing. we will tell you about it next in the newsroom. (girl) what does that say? (guy) dive shop. (girl) diving lessons. (guy) we should totally do that. (girl ) yeah, right. (guy) i wannna catch a falcon! (girl) we should do that. (guy) i caught a falcon. (guy) you could eat...

Weight of the plane. >> normal approach with an aircraft like this and then touching down and then going like that straight across your runway. >> i just saw you tip that nose up a bit. is it -- always remains upwards? >> should be up and that nose gear would be the last to touch down. >> whats troubling, in the final four seconds the ntsb says the plane shifted from two degrees nose up to three degree nose down. >> does this open the door at all to the possibility of human error? >> well, there...