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Way the wreckage is distributed and we see that the tail section is three miles away from the nose of the plane and we have to look to see if theres any sign of an explosion. we have to be very careful of the word of explosion. one very unfamiliar and one familiar. familiar one is the bomb, where theres ignition, smoke and fame. the unfamiliar is an explosive decompression meaning with a failure of the structure of the airplane, the pressure of the air inside the cabin 31,000 feet is far higher ...

And french, will be listening for the last words and sounds from the cockpit and any other noises within the plane. thats from the cockpit voice recorder. the flight data recorder should give us an idea of the real speed, the real altitude, how quickly the plane fell. because it seems it fell dramatically and that the speed went from 500 miles an hour down to 70 miles an hour before it hit the ground. a russian aviation ministry person who was at the scene has said that the plane split up in mid...

Without weapons. all right. joey jackson, mel robbins. thanks so much. >> thank you, fredericka. all right. also, just in to cnn right now, the for first pictures of the russian passenger plane crash site right here. this is the northern sinai peninsula in egypt. officials have pulled 129 bodies from the wreckage. and one image well also see there, the black box. the black box, the data recorder. flight data recorder has been retrieved. usually in the tail section of the plane. but you see rig...

Difficult finding them, as you can see. it is now night here in egypt. what were also hearing and very crucial, is that the black box, one of the black boxes, the one that is in the tail section, has been recovered. officials are now going over that, to try to determine what, exactly, happened to the plane, after it took off from sharm el sheikh, traveling for 20 minutes, and then it disappeared and then the crash. that is the moment that they are going to be trying to discover what exactly happ...

Nbcs tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: shotgun blasts in in the pennsylvania countryside. as the military pumped more than 100 rounds into the top secret blimp to let the last of the helium escape. then the delicate job of cutting it out of the trees. crews did manage to roll up the tail section which had separated from the blimp. the mile-long tether that snagged utility lines, causing 30,000 to lose power, also cut into sections and carted away. >> biggest challenge is just the fact th...

Broke free of its concrete anchors in northeast maryland. for four hours it drifted northwest across maryland, and pennsylvania, dragging its thick, 6700 foot cable on the ground for much of the way, damaging buildings and knocking out power lines, leaving nearly 30,000 people without power at one point. as you can imagine, the runaway blimp caused quite a stir as it made its way through many small towns. >> i think its ridiculous. i mean, its $2 billion, you know, project, and they dont have a ...

Again, theres no indication that this was brought down by those f-16s, which were following it. but at one point, we saw that it was tilted sort of upward with its tail section down. were told by norad officials that that tail section at one point actually broke off and fell to the ground. nobody was injured and that local official secured that section of the aerostat that was lying on the ground. the rest of the aerostat, the blimp, continued on into montour county where that too has now settle...

So well see what happens. >> got to leave it there. >> thank you very much. >> will tonight decide who youre going to support in the presidential? >> this will be a big part of it. i hope they talk about some western issues, but its great to have everybody in colorado a state that believes the better days are ahead of us and which believes in the rocky mountain optimism which has made us so great. >> all right, well be watching. and before we go to break, want to update you on the developing s...

The front section is kind of aiming to the upper right of the picture. then theres the radar pod, more or less at midship, and then the tail section, and what may be the blessing here, what was first reported by jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, the leak or deflation, we dont know how, in the tail section of this airship, may be the blessing that brought it down, slowed it down. but jim miklaszewski, the problem is this tether. anything strong enough to keep this thing aloft at 10,000 feet, is g...

Eastern? and the first officer looks up and realizes something is wrong with the altitude. and he said we are still at 2,000, right? the captain begins to look and says what happened to the altitude and they begin to take corrective 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. and we ...