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It had indeed crashed. how can this type of video help with the investigation? >> well, theres a lot of information here. what we do next in the investigation is come up to the scene and theres not a lot of evidence on the scene to use because of the intensity of the fire and as you know, most aircraft are made up of aluminum. it takes a lower temperature to melt. by the time you arrive at the scene, tragically, theres not a lot to go by. so these videos are extremely important. its not varying ...

Intact. what it says to me is -- there is a possibility that this -- this stall situation that we may have been talking about may have actually occurred. dave and i have been conferring. there was a potential turn it was found, 100 miles south of the last known position. so that seems, seems very interesting to me. still doesnt for me rule out the possibility of a mechanical issue. >> doesnt? why not? >> from the standpoint. theyve had encountered any sort of icing similar to what i hate to go y...

And its victims. here to discuss the challenges ahead is cnn safety analyst and former faa safety inspector david soucie. theyve called off the search because the weather is too bad. the weather has been bad for several days now. thats why were talking about this missing plane. this is the zone were talking about. i want it talk about the debris location. when you look at the flight path and then where the debris location is. what does it tell bus what may have happened in the last moments of th...

Move forward you have air that goes over the wing and then thats what gives it the lift. whenever theres a stall situation, typically the pilots are told to go down first because that creates air, again, over the wing and gives the plane speed. what happened, carol, in this air france flight is that the pilot went nose up. what that meant is that there was no air to go over the wing and help push it up. what happened was that it stalled and then it just fell basically. it fell at a 35-degree ang...

Imagine falling three and a half minutes before crashing into the ocean, falling at 10,000 feet every minute. thats what happened to the people on air france flight 447, all 228 people on board were killed. zain verjee live in london. this preliminary investigation is out. what more can you tell us? >> basically, the headline from this report is that it was likely the pilots decision in the matter in which he responded to the problems with speed on the aircraft that ultimately caused the crash. ...

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Homeland security, faa coming out with new rule whes it comes to flying and safety. jeanne meserve, what do you have for us? what is this stemming from? >> reporter: these new rule, as a result in part of the crash in 2009 of colgan flat. there were things that came into play. one is fatigue and the other pilot error having to do with the stall the plane went into. now the faa is imposing new rules. among the things they would ask, or require, ground inflight training includes recognizing and ha...

Weaknesses with instrument flying skills which may have contributed to his deficient performance during the stall event. >> reporter: betty, that tragic accident pointed to a number of very important changes that aviation safety experts have been saying have to be implemented. betty. >> so what are they? what are some of these lessons that were learned from this crash? >> reporter: right. well, first of all, training. marvin renslow had received training in the classroom regarding the stick shak...

Something happened where they lost the altitude and more air speed than i have seen, and they went from 400 knots down to 62 knots which is the last reading which indicates to me as a pilot, that is a stall situation, so the plane may have been ooh nose high in a stall situation where there was no forward speed to keep the plane aloft. we are told that the pilot did make a transmission to the air traffic controllers indicating a technical problem aboard they were dealing w and looking to the lan...