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Of investigators there. they're trying to retrieve those black boxes, the flight data recorder but what evidence those might yield, we don't know. we already have a ton of evidence because of russell and air traffic control. >> thank you and we just got a picture of russell. he was 29 years old. he had worked for horizon air for three 1/2 years. this is from his linkedin page. i had a chance to talk with national security analyst and she told me that as sad and strange as this crash was, there is an up side of the things that there supposed to happen in anemergency like this worked well. >> pa...

That he did communicate on the ground frequency and all of the communications for the entire flight were conducted on that frequency. you're right. there were incredible maneuvers done with the aircraft. to our knowledge he didn't have a pilot's license. to be honest with you they're complex machines. they're not as easy to fly as say a cessna 150. so i don't know how he achieved the experience that he did. >> i spoke to a former coworker who work would russell. he said he had a very good sense of humor butted wasn't shocked in terms of operating the aircraft. he said you learn things that oth...

We do have chillinging audio from air traffic control. here are some russell's last words. >> i got lot of people who care about me and it's going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. i would like to apologize to each and every one of them. just that broken guy got a few screws loose. never really knew it until now. >> cnn's dan simon has been near this crash site all afternoon. what else do we know about russell? >> a law enforcement source tells cnn that 29-year-old horizon airline employee has been identified as richard russell. he's somebody that can can't very active online presenc...