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Ntsb investigators were still pouring over that fuselage that burned out, broken fuselage, still sitting on the field off runway 28 left at san francisco international airport. and when you look at how much damage there is to that plane, the fuselage entirely gutted by fire, the tail section broken off, it is amazing to realize that a lot of people just simply walked away. until it landed at san francisco international airport, asiana flight 214 had a routine 10 1/2 hour flight from seoul, south...

Information from the cockpit to let them begin to understand what happened here and whether this was human error, mechanical problems or it was a mixture of both, which is also a possibility. the other issue too, which is so amazing to hear from the investigators out there looking at the fuselage last night. they said it was amazing that they heard only two people had died. horrible for those families. our hearts go out to them. but it could have been so much worse in the sense, there were 307 i...

Alaska. we are not clear on how two such large objects could end up touching on a taxi way. we are learning more about it as the news warrants. as you can imagine, making big news at ohare international airport where you can see clearly, trace, in this picture, live from there, a lot of planes all over the place, a very busy afternoon. back to you. >>trace: it look like, if i can look at the video this is live from the fox affiliate in chicago, and you look at the 747 cargo plane it looks if the...

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Steve? >> reporter: well, they could examine the guidance system, surveillance, construction materials used in stealth aircraft, all these things. if you remember a stealth helicopter crashed at the pakistan compound where osama bin laden was killed a tail section of that helicopter was left behind. the sources say the pakistanis shared information about the debris with the chinese. the loss of that tail section said to be just a pittance compared to a loss of a drone aircraft. martha: troubling...

>> to be honest, its hard to talk about. theres about one to one and a half seconds he was pointed right at us and i start to flinch. miraculously for my family, he pulls up and misses the bleachers. >> reporter: the video and some earlier released still photos show part of the planes tail section called a trim tab missing. investigators from the ntsb found it over the weekend. the plane also carried a video camera and a flight data recorder. the information stored on memory cards like this one....

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