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People are desperate as this goes on and obviously, a lot of people are wondering how this could possibly happen and the egyptians are promising a full investigation, however, it's unclear if they're going to be able to figure out anything more than either human error or perhaps some kind of mechanical error on the balloon that allows the gasoline to begin and once you have the fire happen little to do to put it out. >> i don't understand. i mean, how did the pilot save himself if the balloon is hurling toward earth from a thousand feet and he's got that momentum. how does jumping out of the b...

Aviation authorities to determine the exact cause of the crash. today was a clear and sunny day so might have been pilot error or ma ca mechanical error. >> shannon: you mentioned there had been another airplane from the same airline that had some team of problem and had to return from where it had taken off? is that the case? >> that happened sometime last month. second baseman' sure that -- so i'm sure that these are things that will come up on investigation. >> shannon: okay. we thank you very much for your time today, sir. >> all right. thank you. >> shannon: and by the way we checked in w...

From the siberian city of kuman, smoke was spotted quickly from the engines and then the pilot tried to make a forced landing but it was just really a big crash in a nearby field about 2 miles away. the plane broke up in many pieces. again, as you said, 31 dead, 12 injured. it's believed all the victims are russian. this is a major oil energy producing area. the plane was going from one oil center to another, probably all company workers from what we are seeing. according to the report, again, that we've been seeing, looking very hard at a technical and mechanical error, also according to one ...

Caused by mechanical error or pilot error. they talked with the pilot but it's too early in the process to see what went wrong. here is some of what he had to say. >> it's early in the investigation. so our folks on the ground are trying to make sure we get things that could disappear if we don't collect it now. >> reporter: a new york congresswoman is asking the faa to restrict or began non-essential helicopter flights that originate in manhattan. since 1995 there have been 7 crashes in the hudson or east river. bill: more when we get it here. there will be developments on that. the pilot has...

Was mechanical failure they want to get to the bottom of that and the congressman will be having a congressional hearing. >> it's interesting they'll have the hearing, other than the 2003 accident. there was one in 1995 a that was mechanical error, it was thousands of trips that it goes back and forth from manhattan to staten island and has had a fairly good safety record, but we have a lot more news to cover this hour. >> indeed we do. we're learning more about the massive explosion tearing through an oil rig off the tip of louisiana, 18 days ago. the blast sinking the platform into the gulf ...