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Flight 800, some people are in the nose section and they're protected from wind blast as they're falling down. the people in the back of the airplane where it cracked, they're subjected to wind blast. you might have a fix of recovered bodies some are clothed and some are not clothed. that will point to inflight breakup. that will also be vitally important to see just how vast the debris field is for the wreckage. so all these things you have to piece together to see what was causal in the aircraft accident. >> right now the biggest obstacle is the weather. thanks so much for being with us. s...

Very rare. i think it's a great idea. >> we know in other instances it may have prevented this from happening. >> whether it actually caused the crash if you identify a safety risk, but it prevents the next crash. even if the pilot is innocent, down the road this may pay safety dividends. >> with the safety debates. when we talk about the cockpit, does that include the space below, for example, where the acars system is located? >> actually no. the cockpit is considered just to be the area that is above the deck. the engineering and electronics department where people pull up the lower 41 so-c...

The final moments before impact. abc's david kerley is in birmingham. >> reporter: huge flames erupted just before dawn as the giant u.p.s. cargo jet shattered into pieces, crashing just short of the birmingham airport and about 1,000 feet from several homes. >> really, really loud. and then it shook the house. like it rattled the house. >> a big fireball. >> there were three of them. there were three pieces that rolled back down the hill. >> reporter: with daylight, a clear picture of how the airbus a-300 broke apart and burned. a wing here. engines there. nose section mostly intact. but back...

For us as it looks now? >> well, the front section of the nose section is still in tact, even though it was broken up into pieces and the wing section is probably about a football field length away from the nose section. engines are scattered in the area and debris is everywhere. probably the closest home is probably between a quarter of a mile to a half mile away. >> mayor william bell, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i know there is a lot of work to be done. we appreciate it. mayor william bell, birmingham's mayor. happening now in "newsroom" words from hannah. a lengthy hou...

Control of the cessna 30 or 40 feet in the air after taking off off from a grass strip in buffalo. it veered into tree torpbgs flipped over breaking apart. you can see from the photos how the tail section was upside down, the nose section also upside down. it landed on its roof, amazingly the trees cushioned the blow enough that it made for a softer crash landing. >> it's a very thick wooded area. i'd have to say that the trees probably saved the hraoeufts of -- hraoeufrs of the people. it gave the aircraft a soft landing. several broken tree limbs and we saw an aircraft that was in four to fi...