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Way, everything's going fine, we're on the road, just driving along. when you see a dashboard camera you know, wait a few seconds, something will happen. >> that something is a commercial plane crashing on approach to the airport. it slides off the runway at more than 100 miles per hour. >> all of this debris is on the highway hitting cars. >> you can hear pieces of the plane dropping as it breaks apart. >> and in one case, what looks like a wheel from the landing gear slides right on to the road and hits a car. >> i mean, it was probably one of the things you're driving down the highway and y...

Along. when you see a dashboard camera you know, wait a few seconds, something will happen. >> that something is a commercial plane crashing on approach to the airport. it slides off the runway at more than 100 miles per hour. >> all of this debris is on the highway hitting cars. >> you can hear pieces of the plane dropping as it breaks apart. >> and in one case, what looks like a wheel from the landing gear slides right on to the road and hits a car. >> i mean, it was probably one of the things you're driving down the highway and your car's careening toward the wall and wondering what just ha...

Department of transportation. and is now a plaf's attorney. so welcome to both of you. and before we get off of this, first help me understand. if we're talking about the plane dropping for 120 nautical miles, can you translate that for me? is that 5 minutes? is that 55 minutes? >> first of all, i hate using the term drop because it could have been a nice gradual decent. about 12 minutes. >> 12 minutes? >> maybe, or even less if it was a smoother decent. using a 3:1 ratio. so that's a gradual normal type decent.

Catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn heading west, way off course. >> what we see is a quick turn, almost 180 degree turn back towards land. >> according to a source close to the investigation, military radar then shows the plane dropping and flying as low as 12,000 feet. >> the controller at the other end is expecting a call from that aircraft. >> but the call never comes. >> there was repeated attempts to reach the aircraft. not ohm on the 120.9 frequency, which is the frequency they were assigned, but also on ...

Hurry. >> at 1:21 a.m., the plane's transponder goes silent. >> when you turn that off, it's like lights are out. so there's no more voice communication. >> and no signal to air traffic control with the plane's location, speed, and altitude. >> it could have been physically turned off. there could have been a circuit breaker pulled. or there could have been some kind of catastrophic failure on the plane which caused an electrical disruption. >> then the 777 makes an unexpected left turn heading west and way off course. >> what we see is a quick turn almost 180-degree turn back toward land. >> ...