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The cab. the engineer and a conductor who was getting experience and familiarizing himself with the territory. the actual conductor, as there is one on every train, was in the actual passenger section at the time of the accident. >> reporter: it's hard to know what all of this means. we are told by ntsb in the same news conference that the engineer is allowed to control the train. but we did also learn that the engineer, the crew, didn't hit the emergency brakes, john. the emergency brakes were automatically activated. we're still a little more than 24 hours after the accident, still very diff...

Looking at whether the engineer may have been distracted, as you said. they say the emergency brake activated automatically when the train, which you'll recall was traveling 50 miles over the speed limit, jumped the tracks. they say the engineer did not activate it manually nor was he alone in the locomotive. >> there were two people in the cab. the engineer and a conductor who was getting experienced and familiarizing himself with the territory. the actual conductor, as there is one on every train, was in the actual passenger section at the time of the accident. >> officials say the engineer ...

System. >> remember the timing this all happened. transitions from malaysian air space to vietnamese air space, no-man's land in the sky. >> to remind people how they disabled the system. it's a knob turn away. the acars, there's a lot of electronics under the cockpit in the passenger section. there are breakers in the cockpit right is this have mitchell show how simple that would be as well in terms of level of sophistication. >> acars is located in here, located in here, located in here and here. four systems independent here. you'd have to start shutting them down. you couldn't completely t...

Dropping at over 20 feet per minute. we're about selaskboulaska sell. and so the plane would be ripping apart. >> we're going so fast. the fact that after that, the reportedly, the plane somehow levels off, that's what's really hard to believe and then to even try to contemplate what's going on back in the passenger section. the g-forces, the extreme sensations they'd have, it could almost be lethal for the passengers back there. and then we start talking about other factors, "the wall street journal" is reporting they believe there could have been two conspirators here. one who is flying the ...

>> reporter: they need to see -- they need to keep this plane in place with the wreckage trail in place. they are looking at a number of factors. they will look at the weather which many -- there were just 8 miles per hour winds. they are going to look at the airport conditions. the landing instrument system for the run way has been off since june 1 for run way construction. they want to know if that played any role in it because that helps guide pilots into landing in the run way. they want to know whether the pilots realized that the instrument system was out and if it played a role in the c...