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When the boeing 707 crashes into a hillside in oyster bay, the cockpit breaks off, killing the pilot and flight engineer. they're only 16 miles from the airport. >> come on, somebody get the back here. >> miraculously, 85 of 158 people onboard survive the impact. >> they are pinned beneath the wreckage, but there is no fires. >> clearly, the plane if the plane had been full of fuel they would have been all incinerated. >> the ntsb report says the cause of the crash is human error, that simply the flight crew did not effectively manage their fuel or convey how low the fuel levels were. >> when ...

Minutes. around 8:20 p.m. they have 14,000 tons of fuel left, enough for another hour in the air. >> that's when the flight engineer should have made sure that the fuel levels were fine. >> ovianca, heavy. i'll turn you back to the approach. is that fine with you and your fuel? >> i guess so. thank you very much. >> they inquired with air traffic controllers about how much longer it's going to be. they were complaining about their fuel levels and air control asked where the alternate was, which was boston. the pilot handling the ridio told them that they could no longer make boston and that ve...

Japanese leaders offering our nation's full support in the midst of the tragedies, family members are honors loved ones, our british partner itn has more. >> reporter: in a remote mountain town or what's level of it, a woman clamors over wreckage looking for a family member. she finds what she's been looking for, what she's been dreading. but her dignity never falters. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: for the survivors there is little respite. fuel levels are falling slow, and the snow keeps falling, making access even more difficult. but some help is slowly getting

Continual increase in water temperatures it will be more common to have the higher fuel levels for the storms. >> oftentimes, gary, people see the track and say, oh, i'm south of where the model projects the storm. the latest update from chad myers now tells us we don't really know where exactly the storm is going to make landfall. how unpredictable are the models? >> yeah. well, this is another unique aspect of florence is there's a nice steering flow, you know, for the next couple of days. then it sort of runs out of track and when you have a light steering current like we'll have with flore...

Good to see you again. >> reporter: yes, sure, thank you for having me. >> so what do we have today? that is a huge development in my mind. what do you think? >> reporter: well, we have been able to independently confirm based on our sources that the u.s. investigators have not discounted this idea that the jet flew for several hours after the transponder went dark. and they're taking the available data from the jet including what i would describe as systems or mechanical data and evaluating it in this light. there are three streams of data that the ntsb are looking at. one is transponder data...