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The case. >>. >> translator: she had a scar on the chin. no damage to the rest of the body. i recognized her right away. >> reporter: testimony from those that did survive will later prove valuable. but in the meantime, there are countless other clues to pursue. >> we had millions of airplane parts scattered over a mountainside but the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder as well as witness statements, all of these different sources of information help investigators put the puzzle...

Japan airlines flight 123, it is a tragedy with many clues tonight but no hard answers yet. >> it takes rescuers half of a day to get to the remote spot where japan airlines, jal flight 123, has slammed into a mountain northwest of tokyo. investigators finally reach the crash site, they begin combing the wreckage for clues. miraculously they find something had didnt expect. two women and two young girls survived. >> the four people that survived the accident were seated in the very aft section o...

Blows the vertical fin and other parts of the tail section right off the giant 747. critical hydraulic lines are severed in the process. >> the first officer makes several radio calls that says, were in uncontrollable flight, we do not have control of the airplane. theyre fighting literally for their lives. >> the airplane starts to go into what they call a pitch oscillation, up and down, as well as a dutch roll. the airplane starts to swing back and forth. and no matter what the pilot tries to ...

Action. >> but it is too late. >> the engines roared and we hit and the world exploded. it was a huge fire ball. >> the plane rips apart. the crash is scattered over an expansive area. >> i was in the tail and the tail section broke off and we began spinning. we spun 1500 feet and at the end of the spin the tail actually turned over and when it did the floor under me split and i dropped out. >> in the swamp, she is still strapped to her seat as jet fuel rains down on her. there is absolute silen...

Pressurize the tube and you wouldnt be able to breathe at 35,000 feet without the use of pressurized supplemental oxygen. >> the back of the airplane is getting a considerable amount of stress, not only from the pressurization, but also from the tail and all the stresses of flight. that bulkhead is very, very robust. it is a serious piece of structure. >> at the moment of the decompression, all the pressurized air for the cabin needs somewhere to go. it blasts back the cracked bulkhead, and unbe...

>> we had millions of airplane parts scattered over a mountainside. but the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, as well as witness statements, all of these different sources of information help investigators put the puzzle together. >> within days, two important clues turn up. a photograph taken by an amateur photographer as the plane passed over his village. it reveals the plane flying with part of its tail section missing. and part of that missing tail section, including the v...

Slammed into a mountain northwest of tokyo. when investigators reach the crash site, they begin combing the wreckage for clues. miraculously, they find something they didnt expect -- two women and two young girls have survived. >> the four people that survived the accident were seated in the very aft section of the airplane. so when the airplane struck the ground, the tail section broke from the main section of the fuselage and was thrown well away from the impact point. >> takashi hoped his sis...

>> the plane rips apart. the crash is scattered over an expansive area. >> i was in the tail and the tail section broke off and we began spinning. we spun 1500 feet and at the end of the spin the tail actually turned over and when it did the floor under me split and i dropped out. >> in the swamp, she is still strapped to her seat as jet fuel rains down on her. there is absolute silence. >> initially i screamed, you know, somebody help me. and i couldnt hear anybody. and im thinking to myself, o...

Of the airplane itself fails. in the worst case, it can be a wing actually coming off the airplane or tail section or engine. or a cargo door. >> the structure of the airplane is like the bones in your body, and it holds everything together. >> if the airplane structure is the skeleton, then the mechanical parts inside it could be considered the organs. within the structure, the hydraulic system is comparable to muscle, the electrical system like the brain, the pneumatic system like the breath. ...

It turns out the plane carried some modern technology. >> the investigators have found that the accident aircraft was equipped with a video camera facing outward and have found camera fragments at the wreckage site. >> reporter: it could yield clues about what happened as a piece of the planes tail section appeared to come off in flight. sunday night the ntsb released a video of the part that detached. ntsb wrapped up their search of the crash site on sunday. pieces of the plane will be taken to...