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Way, everythings going fine, were on the road, just driving along. when you see a dashboard camera you know, wait a few seconds, something will happen. >> that something is a commercial plane crashing on approach to the airport. it slides off the runway at more than 100 miles per hour. >> all of this debris is on the highway hitting cars. >> you can hear pieces of the plane dropping as it breaks apart. >> and in one case, what looks like a wheel from the landing gear slides right on to the road ...

Along. when you see a dashboard camera you know, wait a few seconds, something will happen. >> that something is a commercial plane crashing on approach to the airport. it slides off the runway at more than 100 miles per hour. >> all of this debris is on the highway hitting cars. >> you can hear pieces of the plane dropping as it breaks apart. >> and in one case, what looks like a wheel from the landing gear slides right on to the road and hits a car. >> i mean, it was probably one of the things...

Department of transportation. and is now a plafs attorney. so welcome to both of you. and before we get off of this, first help me understand. if were talking about the plane dropping for 120 nautical miles, can you translate that for me? is that 5 minutes? is that 55 minutes? >> first of all, i hate using the term drop because it could have been a nice gradual decent. about 12 minutes. >> 12 minutes? >> maybe, or even less if it was a smoother decent. using a 3:1 ratio. so thats a gradual norma...

Catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn heading west, way off course. >> what we see is a quick turn, almost 180 degree turn back towards land. >> according to a source close to the investigation, military radar then shows the plane dropping and flying as low as 12,000 feet. >> the controller at the other end is expecting a call from that aircraft. >> but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to reach t...

Hurry. >> at 1:21 a.m., the planes transponder goes silent. >> when you turn that off, its like lights are out. so theres no more voice communication. >> and no signal to air traffic control with the planes location, speed, and altitude. >> it could have been physically turned off. there could have been a circuit breaker pulled. or there could have been some kind of catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn heading west...

Transponder goes silent. >> when you turn that off, its like lights are out. so theres no more voice communication. >> and no signal to air traffic control with the planes location, speed and altitude. >> it could have been physically turned off. there could have been a circuit breaker pulled. or there could have been a catastrophic failure on the plane, which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn, heading quest and way off course. >> what we see is a qui...

>> reporter: at 1:21 a.m., the planes transponder goes silent. >> when you turn that off, it is like lights are out. and so there is no more voice communication. >> reporter: and no signal to the air traffic control with the planes location, speed and altitude. >> it could have been physically turned off. it could have been a circuit breaker pulled or there could have been some catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> reporter: and then the 777 makes an unexpec...

Coordinates for the turn around not being pre-programmed and all that. however, they simply might be trying to get ahead of the news and properly brief the families if, in fact, they are holding this briefing for at least to some of the chinese families thats pretty typical operation for the ntsb. they hold those daily family briefings in the united states when they work something. but i would think it would be a significant development if they would call a press conference and perhaps they have...

Airplane thats never been picked up or vacuumed in the normal manner. >> the reason were saying this about this particular scenario that were talking about now with the plane dropping to 12,000 feet is because, according to our pilots and all of our safety people here, all of our investigators are saying this points to some sort of catastrophic emergency failure of the airplane. the pilot, co-pilot trying to get the plane to a new runway thats long enough to support a landing. and also trying to...

protestant denonnation in the world is a cult. i think hes a good moral man but those of us who are good followers of christ should prefer a competent christian to a competent nonchristian like mitt romney. >> well, reverend jeffress leaves a huge baptist church and we should note that he also supports romneys rival, rick perry, for president. bill bennett today joined the debate, linking the ministers comments about romney and mormonism to bigotry and questioning the pastors political...