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Makeshift morning that was not the case. >> translator: she only had a scare here on the chin. there was no damage to the rest of the body. i recognize her right away. >> testimony from those who did survive will later prove valuable but in the meantime, there are countless other clues to pursue. >> we had a catastrophic scene. we had millions of airplane parts scattered over a mountainside. but the flight recorder and witness statements, all these sources of information helped investigators put...

It takes rescuers a half a day to get to the remote spot where japan airlines, jal flight 123 has slammed into a mountain northwest of tokyo. >> we had millions of airline the four people that survived the accident were in the very aft a section of the airplane so when the airplane struck the ground, the tail section broke from the main section of the fuselage and was grown well away from the impact point. >> he hoped his sister would be among the survivors. sadly, as he discovered in a

Killed all but one of 153 people on board. a plane going from yemen to the camoros islands. it crashed in june of 2009. this wreckage had a lot of shells on it suggesting it had been in the water for some time. john says listen he doesnt see any slats on the plane. he also says thats a very big clue. its not an air foil that does both high speeds and low speeds. ooengs he thinks this is the tail section of an airbus a-310, unlikely to be a 777, one of the biggest passenger transport planes in th...

Descent, it does appear obviously that that was an unusual event and that something very compelling caused the crew to make the decision to start down but during that eight-minute time frame there should have been adequate time more than enough time to even get a quick message out about why they were descending. if they had experienced a pressurization problem, this is pure speculation, but if they had a pressurization problem we have an actual checklist that we follow to get the aircraft safely...

Pieces of the tail section. if we could put those graphics up it would be fabulous. >> what were looking at right now are these highlighted areas and those are areas where you see colors from the tail from the rutter. thats where colors are on this painted aircraft. the rest of the aircraft is white. here you can see that there is only those surviving pieces. most of the pieces were looking at here are from the rear of the aircraft because most of the energy was absorbed in the front part of the...

You can hear the stress level thats involved with the situation. if you are going through a check list you will certainly know what check list theyre going through and that will tell you what the nature of the emergency might have been. >> what about the other black box? what about the flight data recorder? >> thats very important. thats the other half of the puzzle. >> they found the casing of the flight data recorder but its the insides they havent got yet. >> i believe during the press confer...

Airasia a320 where many of the 162 on board maybe found. visible the section of the fuselage in front of the wings as well as part of the wing. this is where the tail section was found but the black boxes from the tail found a mile to the northwest and half mile farther away the center section with a wing still attached. >> the mystery is deeper from what we found today because we now have major pieces of this airplane that are separated by almost two miles. >> reporter: many of those questions ...

Rally was israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, even though the french government had specifically asked him not to come. france thought netanyahu would divert attention from the rally. at a ceremony at the grand synagogue of paris, francois hollande got up and left as netanyahu got up to speak. netanyahu says israel would welcome any french jews who fear for their safety now. stay with abc news for the latest on the terror threats and investigation in paris. our next updates are on "amer...

Another developing story this morning the search for the black boxes of the downed airasia jet. a bit haunting here. indonesian military divers at the tail section of the plane. the leader says that section will be recovered today if conditions allow. there are strong currents and the tail is partially buried. at least three more victims bodies were recovered raising the total to 47 recovered of the 162 on board. to texas where firefighters in san antonio battled a huge apartment fire for hour...

It also shows it took four minutes before rice got any first aid. honda will pay a $70 million fine. half of the fine stems from hondas failure to report claims about deaths and injuries. the other half for not reporting warranty claims. those are some of our top stories on this friday, january 9th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." a good friday morning. we begin with the work being done to solve the mystery of the airasia flight 8501. divers on the sea floor at the pla...