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>> can you overlook that, or is that a pretty obvious alert that goes out to pilots? do you check that every time you land some place? >> it could be overlooked. but if you're on a trans atlantic flight and you're coming in where you could have instrument conditions, that's going to be an issue because you need that for instrument conditions. now, today they were landing under visual flight rules, so this was an eyes on, there's the airport, i'm flying the airplane, i'm going to land there. >> it was supposed to be a flight from seoul, south korea. your ils situation is out. that's a hypotheti...

It's clear it was possibly too low, and flying different than it should have. they wanted to have a particular path through the sky, weren't able to maintain that path and at the last minute, weren't able to get enough altitude to avoid that wall. >> would that be an unstabilized approach because of the execution of that landing or might it be any kind of mechanical failure of that plane short of that runway? is there a way to know? >> it's hard to see a any -- without getting the information from the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, it's hard to know what because given that th...

Times. i'm surprised it didn't come apart altogether and it was unreal. >> reporter: helicopter pictures show the trail of destruction. impact on the stone embankment at the runways. landing gear and wheels, the stabilizers, the tip of the tail debris from the plane littering the runway. officials say there was no sign of trouble before the plane crashed. the weather ideal, a clear day. all traffic using visual flight rules to land. >> air traffic controllers can be heard guiding in asiana 214 and hear others alerting and the emergency unfolds. >> what happened over there? >> reporter: air tra...

Through. they need to give us clearance. so we are going to defer to their process of investigation before we initiate efforts to reopen that final run way. yesterday all of the systems that were required were operability, operating under clear weather conditions and using visual flight rules and systems required for run way use were fully functional yesterday. everything that was required -- the faa determines what equipment is required to use the run ways under any given condition. in this situation all of the systems required were in use. i would say we have an ils system made up of a local...

program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. >> i'd like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. i'm just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. >> the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney and luke gates are also returning to the u.s. from egypt at this hour. syria is running out of al...