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What happened? >> i was down in florida trying to catch some surf in a swell. we got there for about an hour surfing. i was paddling back out. i felt something big hit me on the right side really hard. >> dana: i can see it in the video. you have impeccable timing. >> john: my gosh. he was surfing the big waves from hurricane larry. a question that my 10-year-old twins would ask you: how much did it hurt? >> [laughing]. it hurt quite a bit. my arm got the majority of the bite. it didnt hurt righ...

Ntsb investigators of that disaster. like the metro jet crash, satellite imagery captured a midair heat signature. >> we had that same occurrence at twa flight 800, a satellite picked up the signature and it indicated, it confirmed for us what eyewitnesses had seen, that there was a fire ball. but. >> but it didnt explain why. it was simply a clue. also shared between the two disasters, unexplained split second sounds on the flight data recorders before they stopped recording. the similarities l...

The plane was trying to land when the tail hit. the pilot aborted landing ten feet from the ground. the plane landed on the second attempt. 159 on board and no one was hurt. a scandal for a little league team. a coach is accused of throwing a game in the little league world series in order to face easier teams. the team that lost bumped the iowa team out of the running. that team complained, and league officials order the washington squad to face the iowa girls in the game. the iowa team ended...

That aborted landing and continue on missed approach if you touchdown on a run way. we do train for that. but they did not have the airspeed or the altitude to permit that to happen. and a chain of event lead to an accident. no one incident. it takes between 7 and 9 second for an engine to go from idle to -- to power that you need. if they called for go-around thrust, more power to be added they added that 7 second or so before the impact. had they added that maybe doubling that amount of time, ...

At that video, don, it totally matches up with what we have been hearing from the survivors and the witnesses. you see the plane come in low. you see that tail hit what appears to be the sea wall and then the plane seems to rotate almost 360 degrees counter clockwise before it comes to a complete stop. you also see what appears to be a fireball. we dont know if thats a fireball or debris and looks like a fireball. very, very dramatic images and as you said, this is something that investigators w...

Filters got clogged for certain reasons. it sounded like he made the attempt to add power and lift the nose. it looked like the landing gear caught the abutment, the break water and of course, the tail hit. thats when you got this oscillation, we call it. and the tail broke off and of course, they didnt have any lateral control. but that is an indication he was coming in, the person who flies a lot can say, hey, we are really low on final approach, coming up the potomeoc, i can tell if we are lo...

Generate the thruts. ther.the combination of the twod have brought the tail down earlier. unfortunately because they were so close to the end and so low, it appears from the wreckage that the tail hit first along with the landing gear. >> you know, there are two people who died, and theres ten critical. i mean, its a terrible tragedy tonight. when you look at that aircraft with that whole top of it charred and burned, it really is extraordinary that more lives werent lost. at least it seems that...

>> again, i think thats a testament to how great an airplane bog makes. >> jamie: before that tail hit, is there any warn that this pilot might have had? what is the earliest. >> thats an interesting question, jamie. what we do know is that they were low. they were way too low, in order to land. and the question for -- for me and other pilots is, did they not realize they were that low, looking out the window? its very apparent when you are very, very low to the airport, especially going into sf...

People ask when they see an accident of this caliber, they think what was the weather right away. >> right. >> we know san francisco it often has overclassed -- overcast conditioned. >> right. >> but you ruled it out. that wasnt the issue today. >> theyll still put a report on it, but, you know, don, hour by hour, they couldnt have been better. sky conditions, visibility, unlimited ceilings and light winds. >> it seems like, don, it also created a situation where you had eyewitnesss, you heard t...