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The video of the debris at the waterline, which would indicate that the plane smash into the end, where does it go from there? how do they analyze this? what happens going forward? >> preliminary reports certainly indicate that the tail of the aircraft struck the seawall and given what the ceo said, that there is no engine issue, clearly, they are looking at pilot error as the probable cause or a contributing cause. but its too early to make a definitive conclusion. those two boxes, the black bo...

Where the football team plays straight ahead of you. on the right hand side would be the water of the bay. the left hand side would be the peninsula. a lot of pilots will tell you its also a difficult -- as airports go, its a more difficult place to land. youre landing over water. you come down and right away you find the runway. what happened here, we dont know why they were this low. as one pilot from a major u.s. airline told me last night normally that plane would be at least 50 if not 100 f...

Want to shift to the other top story today which, of course, is the deadly crash in san francisco. you sit on the transportation committee. there will be an extensive investigation underway. what lessons do you think we might be able to learn in the tragedy that cost two lives and left many other people in critical condition? >> first and mother most thoughts and prayers with the families of the loved ones who lost the victims and families of those critically injured and being treated right now....

Approaching. that activated four seconds prior to impact. there was a call out for a go around from one of the crew at 1.5 seconds prior to impact. and the call out is communication between the crew that they want to go around. that means they want to not land but apply power and go around and try to land again. that call came 1.5 seconds before impact. >> yes, maam. >> so based on those recordings that you just explained, are you finding preliminary findings pointed to pilot error. >> are we fi...

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 high and then took o...

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 high and then took o...

Throughout the evening. and at several points, weve seen a wheel as well. youve heard from a number of experts, and again, i dont want you to speculate about the cause of this crash, because we obviously dont have enough information to do that. but based on the cases that youve tried involving boeing, based on your years as a military pilot, what can we glean from the information that we do have right now about what happened on that plane? >> well, obviously, you know, it goes without saying tha...

One and those affected by the crash. so obviously a somber time for all of the families impacted but also for those in washington as well who are investigating what happened and for the white house. now president obama is expected to return back. i anticipate hell be back sometime this morning. hes with the entire first family. i expect hell get briefed throughout the day as the ntsb continues its investigation. >> thank you very much, kristen. we appreciate that. more on flight 214. how possi...

>> it is starting to shape up as pilot error. yes. throat sl colonel coming down. we talked about this before. when you do an approach, open ocean or over a large body of water and you are looking ahead and you can physically look at im very high or low. he obviously thought he was high and had to come down and bleed it off and he got himself way behind the power curve to where going to full throttle wasnt going to help. >> gregg: wouldnt his instruments told him he was off. >> the copilot. okay...

The earliest. in cases like the ones in which you have been involved in cases like this, typically what happens? typically who is to blame? what is to blame? pilot error? mechanical failures? things like that. >> sure. each crash is different. >> sure. >> factually and causatively and so there is no set answer. if you look at it statistically, certainly pilot error seems to be a predominant factor. but what is important i think in every analysis of a plane crash and particularly commercial plane...