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The flight crew federal investigators say the pilots were more concerned with their low approach than their dangerously low air speed. they were relying on the plane's cruise control to maintain the speed. did that auto throttle malfunction? >> there were three pilots in the cockpit during the landing. and the lead instructor was overseeing the landing. five days later the plane's wreckage is still scattered along the runway. a large piece of the tail section wound up in san francisco bay. >> when you get down to the seawall you can identify where the first strike took place. first the main la...

Lanned at san francisco international airport and tonight, lots of questions about whether pilot error is to blame. officials with asiana airlines say while the pilot at the controls had thousands of hours experience flying other planes, he only had 43 hours on the boeing 777 and never landed one in san francisco before. saturday's landing was to be part of his training. investigators say they found part of the plane's tail section in the san francisco bay and the jet tagged debris hundreds of feet down the runway. passengers escaping down emergency slides right after the crash, earlier today,...

Cockpit, who was training him, at ever flown in that capacity. investigators well be working with the head of asiana airlines who just just arrived, and they're working with korean translators to learn more about the pilots beyond just their actions prior to landing. >> we're going to get a lot more details about their activities, about their work, about their training, about who was the pilot flying, who was the pilot in command, in the cockpit at the time of the accident. we we're going to be looking to correlate all that information with what we're finding on cockpit flight recorder. >> vel...

What did you see? >> we had -- initially me and another officer, derek lee, we were at the chutes and the pilots and crew were asking for knifes. people were stuck. we gave our knifes and when they said the plane was cleared, came back down, and ran around the tail section after we helped some people get away from the plane, i saw people on the ground and it looked like there were still people on the back of the plane and tail was missing from the back of the plane and that part of the plane you could actually walk into, because there was no tail section, it was down in the ground. >> when you...

>> you're filming the whole thing. >> oh, lord have mercy. >> that is video that you will only see on cnn, and it's the only video of the plane's impact that we are aware of. fred hayes talked to cnn just a short time ago. >> i was watching it come in, and i did notice that nose being up in the air and, you know, my initial reaction was that it was trying to avert the landing and trying to go back up, and then we heard -- you know, i seen the tail section hit the -- what i thought was the tarmac. i guess it hit the rocks first or something, but it was a big boom, and then it pitched forward an...