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Excuse me, this is wrong. this is wrong. but that wasn't occurring. everything was occurring normally, so up to that point there's no indication of engine problems, flat problems, control problems. you know, no tricky winds updrafts, down drafts, nothing. that's a very important piece of data. i think jim probably feels the same way. >> you mentioned a tool that was about challenging. what is it called? >> it's called crew resource management, and the united states has really pioneered it. i'm sure jim has been more than trained in it and does it well, but what that means is that the pilot not...

They knew it had departed the plane early. you ask the question what could cause a decompression, control problems and the loss of a vertical fin. >> looking at the plane's maintenance history, investigators learn there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulkhead. that is the structure at the back of the cab than keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the plane's tail dragged along the runway in an accident known as a tail strike. >> the tail strike with occur in one of two phases of flight, either on takeoff, when the plane is on the runway and it'...

Looking at some of the weather conditions in that part of the country. when you look at this, paul, this is a fire that was 6,000 acres on monday. what's the status you're seeing right now of that fire? >> well, currently the fire is a little over 7,000 acres. it's 50% contained. and actually we were very fortunate yesterday. we had a little precipitation in that area, and so control is being looked at to be effective probably tomorrow evening. >> what about wind conditions? that's tallas other criterion that you follow. >> we do. the downdrafts from the summer storms are the biggest concerns ...

Plane stable is fished out of the bay 100 miles away from the mountain. >> it was quite a distance from the crash site. it departed the plane early. you ask the question what could cause a decompression, control problems and the loss of a vertical fin. >> investigators learn there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulkhead. that is the structure at the back of the cab than keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the plane's tail dragged along the runway in a tail strike. >> the tail strike can happen on the runway or it can occur on landing where th...

Is that a critical piece of the 747 structure has cracked and expanded to the breaking point that it snapped. it's the aft pressure bulkhead, an umbrella-shaped structure toward the back of the plane. >> it's the device that keeps the pressure in the back part of the airplane contained properly. without that pressure, you can't pressurize the two and you wouldn't 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 stresse...