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Airplane. that was an instructor captain who had over 3,000 hours on the triple 7 and was a very experienced captain. what was happening -- this happens throughout all of the airlines to maintain the experience levels is that this relatively junior pilot would have been give even and opportunity to make -- would have been given an opportunity to make the approach. it should have been done in a measures way with the instructor pilot overlooking him at all times. gregg: they say the plane was too low and too slow and asked to try again. >> it wasn't just slow by a few miles an hour, it was suffi...

>> what we know about this plane, 777, triple 7, state-of-the-art boeing, considered one of the safest planes to buy, relatively fuel efficient and built for long distances. this was a 10-plus hour flight from seoul. in general, it has an excellent safety record. >> pretty much perfect safety record, about 1100 777s throughout the world. there have been a total of two fatalities on a 777, both yesterday at sfo. this is a remarkably safe workhorse of a plane, designed to replace 747 and it's done a great job. >> it has 300 to 380 seats, can fly 16 to 19 hours. we know this flight was a very lon...

Hit as a result, down 2 1/2%. i think we can show awe graph there. you can see how rough the past few years. we'll give you an idea how it might affect the company longer term. here is the maker of europe's air bus, the rival. the dips that collate with the super jumbo. every time you see a dip, that relates to the problems. is that going to play out for boeing as the problems crop up during the investigation? let's take a brief step back, the problem at boeing is really that they have with the dreamliner is what we saw when they launched the triple 7. the triple 7 now is really a standard wor...

Section of wing is from the boeing triple-7 that vanished 17 months ago. and live in the reunion island on the indian oceans where it's already dark. hi, greg. >> reporter: i think the folks better get used to this. we first heard irrelevantyearly this morning that there was about 10 nils from where the wing part was found and then it become a part of a door and then a box and then it was taken away for inspection when according to officials, it was decided it was that domestic ladder but we did hear more hard information about the wing flap that is to be tested in france. they said the debroi...

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