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Way 100 miles from the mountain. >> so now you begin to ask the question what could cause a decompression and problems. >> looking at the plane's maintenance history, investigators learned there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulk head, the structure in the back of the cabin that keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the plane's tail accidently dragged along the runway, in an incident known as a tail strike. >> a tile strike can occur in one of two phases of flight, either on take justify where the airplane is on the runway and beginning the in...

In a sense, it's probably the answer is yes to both. so again, the flight data recorder and the voice recorder will shed an awful lot of light on this. >> david gallo, your experience with air france a lot of experts compare to this flight how does where what has been found so far in this flight for in particular flight how does it compare with air france? >> right. in air france it was about five days after the initial tragedy that debris was found, but, you know there was thousands of items found and the surface, 50 bodies. but from the plane bits we were able to tell a bit about what happen...

So they knew it had departed the airplane early. so now you begin to ask the question what could cause a decompression, control problems, and the loss of a vertical fin? >> looking at the plane's maintenance history, investigators learn there was previous damage to the aft pressure bulkhead. that's the structure at the back of the cabin that keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the plane's tail accidentally dragged along the runway in an incident known as a tail strike. >> a tail strike can occur in one of two phases of flight, either on takeoff where ...

>> as a maintainer it pains me to say this, but i think we're finding more and more where it is repair related. >> there were at least two suicides in the wake of this incident. a japan airlines employee who was working with victims' families and an inspection engineer who issued a certificate of airworthiness for the doomed plane after the 1978 tail strike. to this day, jal 123 remains the deadliest single aircraft accident in the history of aviation. we've seen the disastrous results of airplanes that are not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airlines flight 123, american fli...

Matches with the ear witness and i'm witness accounts of perhaps the pilot putting in more power to attempt to do a take off again and go around, which would explain the debris tail from a tail strike, those eyewitness and air witness accounts are very, very important. >> so when the ntsb team gets there, obviously it will be night time in san francisco, we assume the bulk of their inspection will come in the morning but they can light it up overnight if they want. they are saying this is one of their most accomplished pilots. how much of the investigation is doing the who was the crew? who wa...