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Investigators learn to study that twisted wreckage of planes. >> what you see around here is a safety system that has failed. >> reporter: instructors took me through part of the training. >> what strikes you with this? >> reporter: well there was a big fire here and doesn't look like anyone could survive this. >> what do you see on the left wing? >> well, i see twisted metal, looks like some sort of significant trauma happened to that wing crashed into something, hit something. i don't know pole. >> we teach the discipline of accident investigation. namely to observe the fact to document the ...

It took out the front of my vehicle. >> are you serious? >> yeah. >> it landed on the left front fender and hood where they come together and it landed with such force that it actually bent the frames underneath, pretty much totaled it because of the damage. >> hours earlier, drummond, a storm chaser, begins following a violent storm that might spawn a tornado. but instead, only brings hail and lightning to west texas. >> there was a huge lightning strike, bigger and louder than normal. i thought that must have hit something, and shortly after that, i heard on the scanner that tones went out f...

He hit harry uhl's boat. >> they knew exactly what they had hit. they absolutely knew. there's no way you could hit a full-sized boat and not know that you have hit something significant or think that you've hit a log or driftwood. it's ridiculous. >> if they would have had their lights on on that boat, we would have seen it. i can guarantee it, that we would have seen it. >> there was no way to know what floyd wright's blood alcohol level was that night. in new york state, this severely limited the prosecutor's case. >> you have to show that the accident was causally related to the drinking. ...

Himself? what would you do? would you drive off the road at 60 miles per hour and purposely ran into something or stay the course and risk dozens of lives hoping that someone, somehow, figures out how to safely stop you? >> my thoughts were to swerve off the road, hit a tree, hit something, try to get the vehicle stopped and hope for the best. >> while officer carroll's car is on a fatal pursuit, he is haunted by a video the year before. >> i remember a family made a call to dispatch 911. >> we're going 1 dwent. there is no brake. >> we captured it to the scene of the crash. everybody died. >>...

Near the tap toll, shawl. it was traveling from inshown in the another west to a southern island. the ship began to list and eventually flipped over in sight of land, leaving only a small part of the hull visible. many survivors were saved by rescue teams who managed to get them off the rapidpy capsizing ship. some survivors said they were ordered to stay still as the ship listed for 30 to 40 minutes. some students showed on a video they made, people waiting to be saved and not getting off the ferry. a crew member said no evacuation order was given by the captain. he was one of the survivors. ...