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Anything that happened inside the actual plane itself, the skin of the aircraft, the fbi will be involved. >> are they going to be looking into the background of the person that hijacked this plane? perhaps try to find out what his motivation was to take such a dramatic action? >> yes, i mean, lets look at this. i mean, you got a guy that takes off, not allowed to do that. and he does this going outside the realm of everything that youre supposed to do. understand what a plane is. the average ai...

Far south as the east coast of south africa. and yet you have all these little pieces of debris but they havent found the plane itself, the main wreckage which of course is the final resting place for those 239 people. so for all of these families that have lived in a state of limbo ever since that day, march 8th, 2014, it seems sad that that state of not knowing is going to continue for the foreseeable future. >> that has to be really a living hell for these families and certainly we remember y...

Government is within the best of their abilities trying to provide a steady flow of information. the minister of -- the emergency minister, the transport minister, the aviation minister all in egypt, all in an effort to get more information and to pass that on to the families quickly. >> cnns international diplomatic editor nic robertson live for us in st. petersburg, russia. thank you so much for your reporting there. for a little more background about the plane itself, here are details for y...

Happens on the aircraft, weather related or mechanical related, and a poor decision is made on how to respond to it. the plane itself, even though its 22 -- this one was 22, 23 years old, is not inherently dangerous or unsafe. the airline, however, has some very dubious qualities about it. >> all right. richard quest, thank you so much. all right, coming up, in this country raging wildfires forcing evacuations and destroying homes in three states now. the major challenges facing fief firefight...

From that plane. and look at this. go close in, you can see the rough edges in here. they are barnacles consistent with something that has been in the water for close to 500 days. the big question in all of this, wolf, is where does this fit into a plane like this? if you look at the plane itself, our analysts have been looking at it and they say thats also something thats fully consistent with a piece that you might get out of here or out of here on the wing. theres an awful lot of evidence to ...

>> in every major crash investigation thats what you do. you map where you find pieces because there may be crucial clues as to how the pieces are left. in this case a striking amount. the blowback from the plane itself, the law of physics, the opposite reaction from hitting the mountain will cause pieces to be widely dispersed but they want to answer other questions. was there an explosion when it hit the mountain of the fuel tank? a fire or not a fire. curious it doesnt look like there was a f...

Plowed right? >> right. it had been plowed just minutes before. other aircraft the two aircraft before him, came down and said that they had good braking action. a plane landing on that runway actually that pier is about 1,000 feet long, and when he touched down, he would have touched down either right at the edge of the pier or even onto solid ground. that long piece on the end is really an overrun area used for planes taking off in the opposite direction. he was several thousand feet down the ...

Harrison ford battered and bruised and in the hospital this morning. luckily hes doing okay after crash landing that plane on to a golf course. we have new information about how this all happened ahead. a close call at laguardia airport, a delta plane skids off the runway crashing just feet from an icy bay. thousands of flights canceled the roads are just awful, after a severe storm pummeled the northeast. well tell you what you can expect today. welcome back to "early start," everyone. im...

Safe for traffic than interstate 95. we just dont have the same ability in the terms of sand and salt on it. you just cant do it. it would ruin the aircraft engines immediately. out there and walk and slip and fall, thats it. cant land. >> putting salt on the runway is corrosion issue, isnt it? >> its not just a corrosion issue if they spread it like they do on the highways. you go out and can hear the salt hitting your engine and all of that. you know they load it up. anything like that, not on...

That. one is direct observation. i heard a report of maybe seeing a shadow of a plane. that needs to be checked out. the other is reverse drifting of the debris, and thats probably going on right now. then theres listening for the pingers on the black boxes. that will take you to the black boxes and there will be the fuselage. and finally, theres a sonar search to look for the fuselage and wreckage on the bottom. all those things are probably under way right now or being prepared to be put under...