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Window and that video is very useful because we can see it does not look like -- now, of course it's a video and it's an odd angle, but it does not look like the flap is fully extended. the flaps give you extra lift when you're landing. investigators will be interested in that because it's possible the black box didn't get the parameter. they would have got the parameter if the flaps were extended to land and you would need to do that, so these videos can be very important. the part that you don't show mercifully was the very end of the crash. you can kind of hear an engine spooling down, at l...

One of them happens to be the unfortunate video that you see inside the cabin. to me, the configuration of the airplane is interesting. it looks like only part of the flaps or partial flaps are down. in other words, they were just initiating the approach configuration. what it says to me is that possibly this airplane got too slow for that configuration and it induced an aerodynamic stall potentially. why that happened, it's hard to say. i mean it's possible -- mary mentioned something about all the engines being operating. it's hard to hear in that audio but it's possible if they lost an engi...

We have live reporting and a team of experts. ivan watson in hong kong, an aviation analyst is a former transportation inspector general, also cnn safety analyst and former faa safety inspector, david sousi and the retired american airlines captain and co-host of "the candid cockpit podcast." i want to go to ivan watson for the latest reporting. what do we know now about this plane crash. >> reporter: we know the plane was an atr-72 twin engine turbo prop. it was only supposed to be flying a 25-minute flight and the last communication was about 18 minutes into the flight. it crashed into a dee...

An eyewitness that shows how quickly the plane banks and then you hear the explosion. it's not even seconds after that moment that you see there. and the video that is so disturbing of the live stream from inside the plane, which was filmed by one of the five indian passengers there, we've been able to confirm it with the gentleman's friend, you can hear the people onboard the plane kind of joking in hindi and then a moment later sounding a little bit more alarmed and then it's all over so very, very and tragically quickly. the black boxes have been recovered. the flight data recorder and the ...