Plane Belly News Today

Black boxes were recovered. although we did have some indication from the wreckage that the plane belly smacked on the surface of the ocean. both aircraft were heading into turbulence. both are airbuses and both rely quite a bit on computers to fly the plane. one of the things that i wonder about is that handoff. there was an issue in the air france 447 case. the handoff between the computer and the pilots. so when the computer said i cant figure this out, you fly the plane. in that case they we...

>> yeah. we learned a lot from the debris in air france 447. we could tell off the pieces aft of the wing section were compressed and everything forward was relatively great shape, so it gave us the idea that the plane belly smacked tail first. everything is a piece of evidence, so youve got to get wherever you can out of every piece collected. >> for more on the story, go to cnn.com. up next, one womans story of survival in washington state in the midst of that deadly landslide. she was in her ...

Families. >> its one thing for people in the media to be going over theories. this is what investigators are doing. theyre running through every scenario. >> its a crude terminology, but david will agree with me, its called tombstone technology. we learn this from these tragedies, but we do learn something so these people have not gone on or died in vain. >> david gallo, again, from that debris, i know you were working under the water on 447, but it is fascinating even with some pieces of debris...

Hopefully give them a glimpse of what happened before the plane belly flopped into the ocean killing all of the people aboard. and the chief of the international monetary fund has been denied bail on the charges that he tried to rape a motel maid in new york. dominic strauss-kahn was arraigned on charges that he tried to rape the maid, and it was determined he is a flight risk, but his attorney says that is not the case. >> he is 62 years old and four children and they are simply wrong with th...

Other news now -- its a major break-through in the investigation of what caused an air france plane to plunge into the atlantic ocean. after a two-year mystery, investigators have recovered the information from the flight data and voice recorder found in the wreckage two weeks ago. investigators say that include the last two hours of conversation inside the cockpit. it could take investigators several weeks to analyze all the data. they are hoping it will give them a glimpse into the last moment...

new york city. dominique strauss-khan was arrested saturday for allegedly chasing a housekeeper through his luxury hotel suite naked and trying to force himself on her. lets go straight to richard roth whos been following todays developments. richard, bring us up to date. >> reporter: randi, the proceedings have just concluded and basically, dominique strauss-khan, the leader of the international monetary fund, has been charged with sexual assault on a maid in a new york hotel in times...