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Hours of experience in the 777, and he had neverlanded a 777 at san francisco before. though he was a veteran pilot with about 10,000 hours of flying time. >> oh, lord have mercy. >> reporter: this was considered a training flight. flight 214 clipping the sea wall, sliding down the runway, and pinwheeling at one point, almost fully vertical, then erupting into a cloud of dust and smoke. >> i was watching it come in, and my initial reaction was that it was trying to avert the landing. >> reporter: officials say the pilot tried to increase speed seven seconds before impact. at four seconds, the ...

>> reporter: and adding to the tragedy of all of this, the san mateo county coroner here saying one of those young women who died may have been hit by an emergency vehicle as it was rushing to the plane. it's not clear whether that person was already dead when the vehicle may have hit it. the mayor responding to it all saying he knows emergency responders were trying as hard as possible to get to that plane, and it was a very, very chaotic scene. chris? >> a lot to be learned, miguel. thank you for your reporting this morning. let's bring in mary scalvo, former head of the department of transp...

To abort the landing. >> a go-around occurred 1.5 seconds before impact. >> the crash tore the plane into two main pieces with its tail separating from the rest of the plane. it's still unclear what role, if any, the pilot played 234 the accident. it was the pilot's training flight in a 777 but that he had thousands of hours of experience and had landed 747s before at san francisco's airport. of the 307 people on board two teens from china are confirmed dead and officials are looking into one of those 16-year-old girls might have been killed by a rescue vehicle. an autopsy will be performed ...

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And burned more than three hours. the cause is still undetermined. the director of the nsa told lawmakers that edward snowden, the former contractor at the center of the nsa leak case was lying when he told "the guardian" he could tap into anyone's phone calls. or e-mails. house chair mike rogers echoed the sentiment. >> he clearly has overinflated his position. he has overinflated his access. and he's even overinflated what the actual -- the technology of the programs would allow one to do. it's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do. and just this morning, british authorit...