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Breathed in soot from a fire, there was a fire on board. well be able to tell how long they were dead before they crashed by the stomach contents. they were fed something as soon as they take off. it takes time to digest it, were they -- >> even weeks after the fact? >> even months after the fact? >> we find stomach contents in people mys, the last things they ate. we can also tell that -- whether they were alive when they hit, when they landed in the water, by looking at whether they breathed i...

Plastic material that might e out there. but one of the things theyre going to be looking at and one of the things thats a significant part of this investigation that needed to be ruled out eventually is looking for fire and soot and other evidence of a preimpact fire very well still may be on the wreckage, so it doesnt rule out the ability to see those type of evidence or clue. >> we know theyre looking ultimately, talking about the debris field, they want to trace it back to the black box to f...

Smoldering wreckage. immediately after the crash, aviation experts and investigators arrive to unearth clues from the smoldering wreckage. >> it was really a nightmare. once i was on the scene, i knew the bodies were not there anymore, but thet was everywhere. >> when the flight data and voice recorders are located, investigators take them in for analysis. >> the two recorders were not in excellent shape, and especially the data recorder. initially, we learned not much. slowly, we began to make ...

Important. so, the visual aspects, was not only looking for these large pieces, but more importantly, really the smaller pieces, thats what i think is going to show us the debris field and that will end up letting us narrow the search for the main body of the wreckage. >> and if, indeed, these satellite photos show dprebris from the plane, the debris has been in the water for a long time. will it still provide clues to investigators? >> absolutely. weve seen in other maritime accidents where the...

France 447 from the floating debris and then when they found the debris on the bottom they were able to ascertain pretty quickly the airplane had hit at a very high vertical rate with a low forward speed and you could tell that by the defamation of the skin around things like the ghali. so the fi galley. if there was an onboard fire there will be soot. those are the things investigators will look for once weep find the main body of the wreckage and that will determine what pieceses they want to ...

Check shup of pieces, and tangled up in wire from the plane or that sort of thing. when you look at the images, do you look at them and say, it is possible that it is part of the plane? >> absolutely it is possible. it depends upon what angle the airplane hit the water and the speed. the interesting thing is that if indeed it is a wing, that fragment, you can start the accident investigation process just by looking at the fragment of where it came off of the fuselage of the plane and how fast it...

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Adam, you on the phone now? hello. describe the scene for us, adam. >> reporter: there are a number of firefighters here. im at 116th between madison and park. they are still making their way into the explosion. all buildings devastated, windows blown out. they have at least three or four hook and ladders up at the scene. can i ask you what the latest is for their lives? >> three. >> reporter: many cars covered in soot, cars with blown-out windows, doors with bloep-out windows. we havent seen th...

The blast. >> everybody going now. >> was it dust, smoke? like an explosion. >> you have the explosion with what i said happened. >> there was dust going everywhere. >> everywhere. he is pointing out, we are standing in his office less than a block away. we do see there is dust and soot everywhere. the closer you get to the blast, the thicker it gets. he was sticking his key in the door and unlocking his office. >> 11 bodies for emergency. >> you saw them removing that. >> i saw that. they were ...

Inside of the barrel for the purpose of preventing a ballistic examination. so the next step was to compare the spent shell casings from the scene to the casings from the test firing. looking at unique marks made by the firing pin as it struck the bullet. they were identical. also inside the barrel was a small drop of blood. dna testing provedthe blood was ken maclennans. >> it made sense based on the soot on the hand that mr. maclennan had actually grabbed the gun before the shot was fired. bec...