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Flight 965 takes off an hour after sunset and is cleared to climb to a flight altitude of 37,000 feet. it's december 20th, 1995. in a little over three hours, the twin engine boeing 757 is scheduled to land in cali, colombia just in time for the holidays. >> it was my birthday, my 21st birthday. so the trip to go back home to columbia was a gift for my birthday and to celebrate christmas and new year's. mercedes ramirez's family was on standby because of a two-hour delay because of a snowstorm in the northeast. they end up getting the last three seats. miami based crew captain spots lights dow...

Flight 965 takes off an hour after sunset and is cleared to climb to a flight altitude of 37,000 feet. it's december 20th, 1995. in a little over three hours, the twin engine boeing 757 is scheduled to land in cali, colombia just in time for the holidays. >> it was my birthday, my 21st birthday. so the trip to go back home to columbia was a gift for my birthday and to celebrate christmas and new year's. mercedes ramirez's family was on standby because of a two-hour delay. because of a snowstorm in the northeast. they end up getting the last three seats. miami based crew captain spots lights do...

Airport, american airlines flight 965 takes off an hour after sunset and is cleared to climb to a flight altitude of 37,000 feet. it's december 20th, 1995. in a little over three hours, the twin engine boeing 757 is scheduled to land in cali, colombia just in time for the holidays. >> it was my birthday, my 21st birthday. so the trip to go back home to columbia was a gift for my birthday and to celebrate christmas and new year's. mercedes ramirez's family was on standby because of a two-hour delay. they end up getting the last three seats. miami based crew captain spots lights down below dotti...

Rate of normal breathing for that final nine minutes. it strikes me as a layperson that you're only able to evaluate the breathing in the context of other factors that we now know like changing the flight altitude. the breathing alone, he could have had a heart attack and maintained breathing. >> you can. you could lose consciousness and maintain breathing. it must have been a combination of those two things that made him think he was awake the whole time. >> let's talk about the toggling of that lock switch. if the co-pilot toggled the door control to lock and thereby disabled emergency acces...

The aviation authorities are going to say about that report. and hopefully by then they will then give out a lot more information on what really happened on that flight on what really happened in that cockpit. >> claudio, now that we know they have obviously information from the voice recorder what about the flight data recorder? what is the latest in the search for that? >> reporter: that hasn't been found yet. that's the second black box, the flight data recorder that contains all the statistics the technical statistics about the flight altitude and speed. that hasn't been located yesterday....