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It sounds like it is not going to be something that comes in this particular accident. >> the tail strike is when the airports are over the run weigh, the pilots don't get the nose up too high making a soft landing to impress the passengers and they strike the tail. but in this situation, it locks like the belly of the aircraft strike that doik and once that happen nothing would save them. >> thank you for joining us. and we appreciate the insight. >> and continuing coverage of the crash landing of a boeing 777 in san francisco. confirmed two people are dead and several unaccounted for. and up...

To burn even after the evacuation of the planes. the latest pictures show a total loss. the fuselage of the airplane consumed by fire. the critical thing to look at are the wings, if not separated, they have been twisted away. the engines have detached as well as the tail section. that leads open a huge range of possibilities. the airplane at a high range. made a tail strike. very unclear. this is incredible popular safe plane. the boeing 777 made in the mid-1990s. they have sold a ton of them. to my knowledge, there's never been a fatal crash involving a 777. the weather picture appears to be...

The runway. so where the tail is is short of the runway, never mind the thousand feet he's supposed to have before he comes in. kpleer clearly, he's out of control there because the nose went up and the tail tipped back. so that presents the normal kind of landing and causes that tail strike. >> peter goals is back with us, managing director of the ntsb. pete, again and pardon me if i'm -- >> thank you very much. >> thank you, bob. >> peter, are you there? >> yes, i am. >> pete, i can't recall whether you're able to see those images. >> i have not seen the latest ones. but from what you've des...

>> there were two suicides in the wake of this incident, a japan airlines employee who was working with victim families. and an inspector who issued the certificate of airworthiness for the doomed plan 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 not properly repaired, maintained or inspected. japan airlines flight 123, american flight 191, aloha flight 243. we've also seen what can happen when a plane has a design flaw. but those flights are the exception, not rule. ev...

They knew it had departed the plane early. you 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 is the structure at the back of the cab than keeps the cabin pressurized. it was cracked seven years before the crash. when the plane's tail dragged along the runway in an accident known as a tail strike. >> the tail strike with occur in one of two phases of flight, either on takeoff, when the plane is on the runway and it'...