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. at the bottom of the hour, you are watching cnn. at this moment we are following not just one, but two big leads in the search for missing flight 370. a u.s. official said the fbi team examining pilots at home flight simulator is confident they can recover some of the information deleted. that was number one. as far as the whereabouts of the plane itself, the answer might be right here. zoming i zooming in off of perth australia, the most isolated plates in the world. in the middle of the ni...

Down, that there was no more hope that their relative might be alive. this is agonizing, in this case. and so it is unprecedented having to wait this long with so little information. >> and if debris is actually washed up. lets say somewhere in that q d quadrant in the indian ocean. without finding the plane itself, they can learn something depending on what kinds of pieces might wash up? what happened with air france, they actually found the body of the plane, though. and the black boxes. >> ye...

Weve been talking act the two fuel slicks they are testing conducting on that field to find out whether it came from plane or whether its jet gas and also new developments about the plane that possibly may have turned around. now, there is radar tracking the world malaysian air force chief said that there was a possibility that the plane had turned around. he gave no further indication. certainly there was nothing from the plane itself, the pilots or the automatic sensors from on the plane which...

Out of the sky ten days before that, almost simultaneously by two female suicide bombers. nobody quite knew how those blasts occurred, but a lot of speculation at the time was that explosives were brought on perhaps in a large tub of face cream. now, that was before those 100 milliliter restrictions were brought in. that was more linked to a threat emanating out of london. but certainly after both blasts the russians brought in those full-body scanners that many now complain about as an invasion...

Anyone on the plane about snowdens presence on the plane? >> reporter: passengers said, yes, they indeed saw him, they were very certain that it was him. no doubt about that whatsoever. we havent heard any stories from anything on the plane itself, but a numb passengers report a black car pulling up next to the plane, one man getting out. we presume this was snowden. likely placed directly into the car and it looked like a diplomatic vehicle. where im standing here, there are a number of diploma...

People were apprehensive. it was a period of time after 40 years of being in the industry that i have never seen before or since. >> i see the plane. the engine fall down. >> two months after the attack, another plane is down. and at first, an act of terrorism is feared. >> weve preliminarily put up the city on high alert. we have closed certain things down just to make sure we find out what this is all about. >> former inspector general of the department of transportation mary schiavo, followed...

Transportation followed the investigation. >> that was everybodys first thought. but there were a number of, you know, clues, and they came out really quickly that it wasnt because you had -- you know you had the cockpit voice recording. then when they found part of the plane was detached from the plane itself, we knew right away because pieces of the plane are not ever supposed to fall off. >> once terrorism is eliminated as the cause, investigators focus on why the tail broke off. it takes mor...

Plane itself, we knew right away because pieces of the plane are not ever supposed to fall off. >> once terrorism is eliminated as the cause, investigators focus on why the tail broke off. it takes more than two years before the ntsb findings are released. due to the first officers excessive use of the rudder pedal. >> the entire fin which is the vertical stabilizer as well as the rudder separated from the fuse lodge and the airport became no longer controllable. >> pilots no longer use controls...

>> i saw the plane. the engine fall down. >> two months after the attack, another plane is down. and at first, an act of terrorism is feared. >> we have put the city on high alert. we have closed certain things down just to make sure we find out what this is all about. >> former inspector general of the department of transportation followed the investigation. >> that was everybodys first thought. there were a number of, you know, clues and they came out really quickly that it wasnt because you -...

Norway and sweden, but we have them as well in alaska and america. and soz thats where they are now. i dont know the visibility, but we knew at the time when this rescue started hours ago that they were having trouble getting planes in there. we would expect that. we would expect the national guard to probably have some trouble at that point in time. and then i dont know how close it was to the water, but maybe coast guard was involved. and so now we have all kinds of teams that are converging o...