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Going to see if you take a look over here, the escape slide was deployed. what you also see over here is that a pretty clean break on the fuselage, i think what you're going to determine is that this aircraft impacted the ground, split apart because of the severity of the impact, it was no fire. >> but there were thunderstorms in the area as the plane approached in the overnight darkness. and -- it was reported in the area there were about 11 lightning strikes within a six-mile range that were happening all over the place here near the airport. what effect did that have? >> i think what you se...

From lightning -- lightning strikes are not necessarily the reason that this accident happened. what you're really going to focus on is going to be probably the convective activity all around the airport. and what happens is with the terrain over here, you're going to look for down bursts, from the thunderstorms, microburst activity. lightning flashes that may have blinded the pilot. >> reporter: something that weiss says might have happened just seconds before impact. weiss and other pilots tell us, planes often get hit by lightning but not brought down by it. those incidents are common enoug...