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I think, you know, you can make a reasonable inference from that because the tail snapped off. but what exactly caused the plane, or, you know, lets just say, was this a pilot error, or was there some other problem with that, with that airplane that may have caused that to happen? of course, those are the things folks are talking about and thats going to be the investigators job, if you will, as soon as they get here on the ground. to sort of piece everything together. >> and, dan, you cant hold...

On time and operating, everything has returned to normal. remark able that you had this incident occurring 12 hours ago. the ntsb has a crew in route to san francisco, expected to land at midnight local time. of course, they will start investigating the scene at day break. trying to piece together what in fact happened. jon, a as we have been reporting and as you just mentioned the tail, according to the witnesses, seemed to make impact first. with the -- with the front of the aircraft pitched u...

Back to ntsb investigators look at the crash site and look where that plane first hit. was it pilot error or the plane mechanical malfunction. what they do know for sure the landing gear hit the edge of that jetty. as we spoke about earlier this hour, there are a lot of people in the hills at sfo, look down and watch planes coming in. its one of the selling features to their homes. there were a lot of people that saw that plane coming in low. a pilot i spoke to today told me that plane should be...

It was more interesting what he didnt say. he wouldnt be drawn on whether it was pilot error, but he did say they were experienced. we bought this plane in march 2006 and had a pw 4090 engine. we acknowledge there were no problems caused by the 7-7-7 plane or its engines. three peoples are veterans with an experience of more than 10,000 flight hours and one pilot has 9,000, almost 10,000 hours experience. he bowed his head in apology to the families of the passenger. there is a lot of comment ab...

Into the air, circle around and try to make a successful landing. of course, they didnt have enough time. want to toss to the ntsb chairperson who offers a few more details. take a look. >> a call from one of the crew members to increase speed was made approximately 7 seconds prior to impact. during the approach, the data indicate that the throttles were at idle and air speed was slowed below the target air speed. >> one of the questions asked to deborah hersman was, all this information, when y...

Boxes theyre not. but theyre going take a look at the flight data recorders and voice recorders. theyre going pull that out. you can load data into a triple 777 simulate skbror sit there in the aircraft simulate skbror watch the throttles move and gauges move because that data is captured and theyre going to be able to ride that simulator into the final moments. and be able to figure out what, was there a problem with engines or pilot error. and where the guy maybe got low and then climbed up hi...

Details of what happened in the seconds before the crash landing and the plane itself. the boeing 777 had a virtually spotless safety record in the 18 years of service before this disaster. dominic denatelli is live for us. asiana airlines ruled out mechanical problems. is it admitting pilot error? >> reporter: well, the airlines management ducked that question at a press conference in korea earlier today. too much liability, i think, saying anything like that at this stage. the c.o. said the pi...

Was it a mechanical problem that caused the flight it crash land? could it have been pilot error or are there other factors to blame? we know that two people died, others are still unaccounted for and 307 people on board of that flight. joining us by phone john scott who happens to be a pilot. john, i spoke with you earlier today. and it seems to be as more and more people describe what they think happen was as you described it to us earlier with the landing coming in and the tail hitting the to...

Im certain that they have spoken with them at this point. the question is whether they are going to let us know what they have learned through those interviews. they are going to take what those pilots say and then compare that to what the black box says about the arrival and the voice recorder and put those three things together as well as the lay out of the debris field. theyll be able, i believe, to come to a fairly quick conclusion of whether this was pilot error or mechanical problem. >> on...

They havent said much about them. they all had significant flying time. thats whats interesting here. it may not be pilot error. this could have been something mechanical. they could have stalled. there are a lot of different scenarios here. one of the pilots that flies for that major u.s. carrier that lands here all the time was telling me last night theres probably eight or ten different things that could have happened and it could be something as simple as the pilots were over the water, lose...