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I don't see anyone broke any laws? >> no, there were no laws broken. this is like, you know, i personally think he should have went to tokyo. the guy was supposed to be on a partner airline, they could have waived to eac other in the sky. but, yeah, i mean what happens now is ana probably $200,000 cost to them to huge around a huge jet. so, you know, i guess they were being overly cautious. but i don't think there was any actual security risk here. >> i hate long flights to begin with. i would be very upset. but sounds like the passengers handle the ordeal pretty well. >> yeah. >> we saw some ...

Could be mechanical error. we don't know what -- why this happened. and we really want to know that. and i think -- i think it's almost irresponsible just to say oh, positive train control would have been prevented it. it might have. but you really need to know what happened here. >> and i know from investigations in other train accidents long before there was positive train control that was controlled by satellite or gps there are mechanical systems on trains meant to do the same thing if a train is blowing through a central or speeding or faster than is supposed to be. there were levers. >> ...

Monitoring in d.c. gary tenney is there. >> one of the first questions with the ntsb will answer them in a on scene this afternoon, if this is the result of human or mechanical error appeared to do this, ntsb's go team includes experts across the field, train operation, track engineers human performance as well as damage assessment. they look from anywhere from the schedule the last few days and the condition of the track. as well as the engine, most amtrak commuter trains, they do have black boxes on, and what we do not know at at this one did commit able let them know how fast train was goin...

Doing to try to fix the larger problems this string of mishaps may reveal. but first, jim sciutto has late word on what may have caused this particular collision. jim, what are you hearing? >> reporter: a navy official is telling me that the crew lost steering. the simple ability to steer as it was entering these busy shipping lanes. and they -- this is crucial as well. they weren't, for some reason, able to activate the backup steering system, which these advanced destroyers have. they don't know why they weren't able to do that. it was only after the collision that the crew was able to regai...

Beginning to see why that is. was it a human error, a mechanical error? the steering, it's not like you have a big screw that turns the screws. there are wires connecting it. so it could be anything along that series. >> jim, thank you very much. more now on this sad string of incidents, and what the navy is trying to do about it. michelle kaczynski joins me with that. the tourt time this year a u.s. warship is involved in an incident. the navy has done a day freeze of activity? >> even one of these accidents was shocking. i remember when the first one happened. then there's another, another, ...