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Green lights indicate the main landing gears are down. but the nose gear indicator remains dark. >> the nose gear showed that it wasn't either down or up. it didn't say what position it was actually in. so they broke the approach and advised air traffic control that they needed some time to sort through a technical problem. >> unaware of what's going on in the cockpit, flight attendant beverly raposa feels the plane turn away from the airport. >> i wasn't concerned, because i mean, things like that happened. and if there was a problem, we had a phone by each of the flight attendant seats. if t...

It is simply too late to do anything about it. it sounds impossible but that sort of thing has happened before john. >> these are the questions. with the flight recorders in hand, perhaps we'll get answers quickly. tom foreman, thank you. let's bring in our panel. david stoosy a former faa inspector and author of "why planes crash" and les obviousen is a former airline pilot. david, tom foreman laid out some scenarios there. based on what you've seen so far today, do any of you jump out to you as the most likely? >> i see the third one does. it's happened before as tom had mentioned. an l-1011...

Are flying into the terrain. it is controlled situation. this happened a couple times the last one of serious accidents of all times was back in miami out in the everglades when in 1972 an l-1011 was diverted and flying around looking for the cause of this landing gear that wasn't coming down properly. the flight crew was so fixated o on trying to figure out why this wasn't working they forgot to maintain and look out the aircraft and see why theyere they were flying and it slowly dissented. they got the proximity warning. to me it appears this is something that is a possibility in this. obvio...

Wasn't either down or up. it didn't say what position it was actually in. so they broke the approach and advised air traffic control that they needed time to sort through a technical problem. >> unaware of what's going on in the cockpit, flight attendant feels the plane turn away from the airport. >> i wasn't concerned because things like that happened and if there was a problem, we had a phone by each of the flight attendant seats. if there was a problem the pilot would have called us. >> to troubleshoot the problem, the l-1011 climbs to 2,000 feet and heads west toward the everglades. the ca...