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The sky. soon the planes stall warning goes off. he keeps saying repeatedly, whats happening? whats happening? wheres the captain? they call for the captain six times. >> yeah. >> reporter: we dont know why it took captain dubois more than a minute to return to the cockpit. but two sources tell abc news that he was traveling socially with an off-duty air france flight attendant. were the two together? if the pilot is distracted because hes traveling with somebody potentially, isnt that part of t...

Instead of leveling the plane off or dropping the nose, the pilot kept trying to climb. the stall warning sounded 75 times. the deputy captain finally realized what was going wrong and leveled the plane, but for some reason the junior pilot pulled the plane back up not realizing they were plummeting 11,000 feet per minute. the captain finally came back into the cockpit, you could tell there was confusion. from the cockpit voice recorder, put this on the screen. the deputy pilot says: >> reporter...

Of accident investigators not taking part in this french inquiry and to a lot of pilots, and a lot of them have these same concerns. megyn, one ought to say airbuses are safe, they are remark -- all commercial airlines are remarkably safer. they always argue, these two, about it. but maybe we can make them even safer still because the issue was why was there confusion in the cockpit? why was it not obvious what the junior pilot was doing? megyn: the flight hit turbulence, there was a stall warni...

and this boat, no match for the rough waves slamming into the mississippi overnight, despite efforts to wrangle the boat here, it was a lost cause, ta digging a huge hole in the hull and capsizing, you are in the cnn newsroom, im susan hendricks. this massive storm is stalled just off the coast of the new orleans. it promptses to bring high winds, heavy rains and flooding. the governors have declared states of emergency. already power has been knocked out to thousands in the southern p...

that may come as news to thousands of vermonters that still do not have power or cannot get in out of their homes or towns but have lost their homes or businesses, but four days after irene came and went food and supplies are reaching towns that had been entirely cut off. and there are makeshift roads made for emergency vehicles only, and national guard helicopters are going where atvs cant. some of the 16 helicopters now on the job are on loan from new hampshire, right next door, and ...

though, who want his job. plus, the tea party movement dealing with new divisions while stirring up red hot anger among liberals in congress. why some democrats see the tea party as their worst enemies. and a state of alert as the nation prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. were digging for information on the fbis latest concerns and whether americans should be worried. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we now know that president obama wants to deliver hi...

>>shepard: new information on the air france flight that plunged into the atlantic ocean. the captain was not in the cockpit when the emergency blow began going down 3 1/2 hours into a trip from brazil to paris and june 1st of 2009 and the crash killed all 228. according to the new report that came out today, the co-pilot heard a stall warning and struggled to get the jet under control, and less than four minutes later, it slammed into the ocean. investigator say the air bus fell at 11,000 a min...

>> shepard: passengers on board a flight over southeast asia are now telling their stories after the planes engine caught fire right in the middle of the flight earlier this morning. it happened on a trip from singapore to the indonesian capital of jakarta. were told 20 minutes into the thing, there were two sharp bangs, and then violent shaking all over the jet before the pilots announced "were turning around." then the passengers say all the lights went out. they smelled smoke in the cabin. it...

Hand for the ceremony. many haitians see this as a new start after last years earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left a million others homeless. a mid air scare for passengers on a cathay flight out of singapore. a stall warning forced pilots to bring the air bus a 330 headed for jakarta back to the airport for an emergency landing. fire fighters doused sparks coming in one of the jets engines. no injuries to the 136 passengers or crew member years a san francisco giants baseb...

he is charged with trying to rape a maid in an upscale manhattan hotel. >> strauss-kahn is accused of emerging from a bathroom naked, then dragging the 32-year-old housekeeper into the bedroom of his $3,000 a night suite and attacking her. >> before his arrest strauss-kahn was considered a front runner to become frances next president. richard roth is tracking the latest developments. strauss-kahn was supposed to be arraigned last night. why was that delayed? >> this was like a night c...