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Confirmed at this time. so, cnn asking to confirm reports that the u.s. coast guard was conducting a search and had found a body. the u.s. coast guard saying to us and this is, quote, in full, i cannot confirm that, i know there has been a helicopter lunched and we are assisting the responding agencies but other than that nothing else has been confirmed at this time. new information now, rene marsh is checking with the faa and from the national transportation safety board. what do you know, rene...

Provide additional information. are there any other questions? the question is, is this a relative new aircraft? this is a boeing triple 7. i mentioned boeing will likely be one of the parties to our investigation and we work very closely with those who have expertise to bring that to the investigation. the triple 7 has been around for a while. carrying several hundred passengers. well certainly be looking at everything when we get there. we have not determined what the focus of the investigatio...

To really begin to collect the factual information to do the documentation and to draw on our experts who will be putting together information while en route. one more question. >> is there extent chance of pilot error? >> as i said before we havent left washington yet. we have a lot of work to do. we will be looking offering the table at this point. we have to gather the facts before we reach any conclusions. n.t.s.b. investigations are very thorough. we will gather information and provide that...

That is what led to a delta crash in dallas that led to a whole bunch of safety changes and information, radar changes to help avoid wind shear. what caused this one to come in so low, i dont know, but it isnt necessarily pilot error. there may have been a pocket wind or tail wind that hit this plane that wouldnt allow it to stay in the air. >> rick: jon scott being a great news man and co-anchor of what is happening now, he a licensed pilot. thanks so much for your time. >> we wanted to bring i...

We are working with our counterparts with koreans, their investigation board and we will invite them to serve as a participant in our investigation. we are leaving now. we should arrive in san francisco in just a few hours and we go l get to work when we arrive. happy to take any questions. >> at this point, what do you think happened? >> question is, what do we think happened. obviously, we have lot have work to do. as you know when our teams arrive on scene, they work to collect information. w...

So, you know, my guess is that that probably would not be a factor in this particular crash, that boeing and the faa and everybody dealt with that. the last time that this country, the united states, had a fatal commercial plane crash was in 2009, when of course we lost that flight in buffalo and 50 people onboard the plane died, and one person on the ground died. and that was attributed finally in the ntsb investigation to pilot error. that was a regional plane, you may recall. the last -- this...

Eliminate through a process of elimination come up with a probable cause. remarkable thing about this, evacuation tests for the triple 7 in seattle before it was put into service. and it passed with flying colors. so the built for the passengers to evacuate obviously was key to whatever is going to be hopefully a positive resulted in terms of that. >> it passed all initial safety tests. does that tell you that perhaps this was pilot error in terms of the tail independent of the plane coming off ...

Weather conditions were good. the only problem with modern aircraft is the incredible sophisticated of the auto system. and the auto systems can rob a pilot of basic airmanship skills and the pilot may not realize that these skills have been diminished because of an overreliance on the auto system. so paradoxically, a visual landing in wonderful weather conditions is probably more of a challenge to an average 777 pilot than an instrument landing. on the instruments, the plane is flying itself or...

Because of jurisdiction, crime aboard aircraft or destruction of aircraft. for the publics sense, the ntsb was there for other reasons for the crash, pilot error, weather, mechanical, et cetera, et cetera. the fbi operates under the rules of federal procedure, rules of evidence, chain of custody. we cant have all these people -- most of these investigators were low-level people, probably good people, but they were not the decision makers on the technology. they were not the metal urgists, not th...

>> reporter: day after day, flying is the safest form of travel. disasters are rare. when they do occur, theyre often the result of pilot error. this time was not. thats what made the crash of twa flight 800 so puzzling at the beginning, so astonishing at the end. within a week, navy divers found the planes black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder on the bottom, 130 feet down. but when investigators opened the boxes, they found no answers. only silence in the final seconds in the cockpit. >> the ...