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Rating on the 777 and getting initial operating experience on the 777. >> shepard: investigators say the plane's tail hit the sea wall dragging debris for hundreds of feet down that runway. they tell us they found part of the tail section in san francisco bay. and some amateur video of passengers escaping down the emergency slides right after that crash. officials say almost 200 people were hurt. two passengers died. both were teenage girls from china headed to summer camp here in the united states. there is a big group of them. tonight, investigators say one girl may have died after a rescue ...

Beginning, the middle and the end as it relates to how this all unfolded, how it came to be that this plane had to make this crash landing. that that you're looking at on your screen there, that is going to be so critical in this investigation. candy? >> and there is -- first of all, black boxes are not black. second of all, what is it in these -- there more than one recorder. one records data, the sort of thing richard was just talking about, altitude and all that. and the other one is what? >> right. one does record -- there are two different boxes that we're talking about there. you see two...

Would be in the water, near the water, what have you. what happened to that particular person? i just thought about that, which is a question to be answered here. the missing tail section, that's usually where the recording devices are. that can withstand, they can withstand a lot of pressure, a lot of damage. >> that's correct. it's not necessarily in the very back of the aircraft where you saw the three major pieces. it is in the rear of the aircraft. it's designed to survive that kind of crash and even the post-crash fire. >> how long do you think this investigation will take? >> depending ...

Approach and what, if anything, was said in the last seconds? if nothing was said, that's also critical. that means somebody wasn't doing their job. >> to both of you, i'm getting this from a pilot. he says you can see the tail section fail when it reaches the nose of the taxiing aircraft. it collapsed right there where i said it did. the engineers at boeing are going to care about that. i'm sure the families of those girls are going to care about how their children ended up on the runway. asiana will possibly, boeing will carry legal liability for this. what do you think? >> well, that depend...

That as an aviation attorney and as a pilot, what are you assessing? >> well, significantly low means about 30% lower than the air speed he should be at. that's when the aircraft is going to stop flying and start crashing. but there were some warning signs to this crew. even in the last seven or nine seconds when the stick shaker comes on as richard pointed out, it is a violent shaking of the control yolk. that's a four seconds before impact. and the golden rule there is that any time you get the stick shaker to come on with the power full power. take off and go around power which is full powe...