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Crashed outside of miami. we saw a similar accident in sacramento, and everyone believed again, was cargo getting loose because the performance of the plane was very similar. we found out in that accident though that in fact a elevator of the aircraft and cable connecting it had failed and the pilot simply could not control the airplane. so it is a little soon to speculate but certainly attention is going to be focused on the cargo, what happened, listening to the voice recorder and the data recorder. jon: and for our viewers who don't he no the difference, a stall, when you talk about it is a...

1st, 2009. since middle of may. jon? jon: to make clear to february and march keep in viewers we're not talking mind we were getting closer about a engine stall. to cracking the 35,000 we're talking about a wing level. stall where the air sort of a lot of economists peels away from the wings. attributed to that, better they pointed the nose of the than expected weather and mild winter where we plane up so much that the borrowed some of the jobs. air flow going over the wing particularly think about construction jobs at that was not effective and the particular time versus a slowdown in hiring ...

Into the water. french officials are getting set to issue their final report on this tragedy later on in the summer. these details on the black box recordings, though, is brand new. all 228 passengers and crew onboard air france flight 447 were killed. jon? jon: rick, just a quick clarification there. they're not talking about an engine stall, this is the pilot in me, but they're talking about a wing stall where he raised the nose, and aerodynamically the wings lost their lift. it wasn't actually an engine stall in that report, just wanted to -- >> reporter: thanks for clarifying. jon: sorry a...

Air speed, well they just never did that. then you get what is called that wing stall where the angle of attack of of the wings won't support the plane, won't keep it in the air any more. >> absolutely. and it's not uncommon in accidents sometimes where flight crews get fixated on one message, or one part of the challenge, and they fail to scan their entire instrument panel, they fail to correctly diagnose that, you know, we not getting good information off the air speed indicator. there are training procedures you can go through that will offset that. why they kept their nose up, why they all...

Nobody would necessarily know that you were even in the sky. and if this pilot's intent was to do harm, he may not have even done some of the usual things like announcing himself on the radio or even turning on his transponder so that faa radar could pick him up. >> just to explore the other possibility since officials are not yet confirms on the record that this was an intentional act, that's just coming in from various sources, the ntsb earlier suggested they were investigating that, now they've dialed that back slightly, but that is what we're hearing, could this have been a stalled plane f...