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Makeshift morning that was not the case. >> translator: she only had a scare here on the chin. there was no damage to the rest of the body. i recognize her right away. >> testimony from those who did survive will later prove valuable but in the meantime, there are countless other clues to pursue. >> we had a catastrophic scene. we had millions of airplane parts scattered over a mountainside. but the flight recorder and witness statements, all these sources of information helped investigators put the puzzle together. >> within days, two important clues turn up. a photograph taken by an armature...

It takes rescuers a half a day to get to the remote spot where japan airlines, jal flight 123 has slammed into a mountain northwest of tokyo. >> we had millions of airline the four people that survived the accident were in the very aft a section of the airplane so when the airplane struck the ground, the tail section broke from the main section of the fuselage and was grown well away from the impact point. >> he hoped his sister would be among the survivors. sadly, as he discovered in a

Killed all but one of 153 people on board. a plane going from yemen to the camoros islands. it crashed in june of 2009. this wreckage had a lot of shells on it suggesting it had been in the water for some time. john says listen he doesn't see any slats on the plane. he also says that's a very big clue. it's not an air foil that does both high speeds and low speeds. ooengs he thinks this is the tail section of an airbus a-310, unlikely to be a 777, one of the biggest passenger transport planes in the sky. really that's all we know right now. this is on a french island in the indian ocean. this ...

Descent, it does appear obviously that that was an unusual event and that something very compelling caused the crew to make the decision to start down but during that eight-minute time frame there should have been adequate time more than enough time to even get a quick message out about why they were descending. if they had experienced a pressurization problem, this is pure speculation, but if they had a pressurization problem we have an actual checklist that we follow to get the aircraft safely descended. printed is an atc communication item. >> interesting. so peter, i'd like you to take a l...

Pieces of the tail section. if we could put those graphics up it would be fabulous. >> what we're looking at right now are these highlighted areas and those are areas where you see colors from the tail from the rutter. that's where colors are on this painted aircraft. the rest of the aircraft is white. here you can see that there is only those surviving pieces. most of the pieces we're looking at here are from the rear of the aircraft because most of the energy was absorbed in the front part of the aircraft as it impacted the side of this mountain here. so it's just horrific scene. if you look...