with laura kuessnberg, paddy 0 connell and henry zeffman. it seems every time you turn on the news, there has been another strike somewhere, there was a strike on an american military base this morning in iraq. so, this hotting up of tensions continues apace, and this morning we had grant shapps the defence secretary on the programme, who said earlier this week we are in a prewar world, who said earlier this week we are in a prewarworld, in who said earlier this week we are in a prewar world, in other words, who said earlier this week we are in a prewarworld, in otherwords, he was anticipating that there will be more conflicts coming down the tracks before too long. which sounds like a pretty alarming message, but i think most politicians you talk to at the moment would say actually thatis at the moment would say actually that is probably true. i at the moment would say actually that is probably true. that is probably true. i heard it summed up that is probably true. i hea
Difficulty landing close to the crash site. it s a difficult situation for those trying to investigate the crash further and also to bring back the bodies. they have established a temporary morgue in a small town about 10 kilometers away, 6 miles away from the crash site, that s where bodies will be taken when they begin to recover them. put this in perspective for us. if all of this is confirmed and numbers stand or climb, this will be the deadly crash in france in some 30 years. reporter: that s correct. the concord crash in 2000 that killed 113 people and moment of the germans, german tourists taking a leisure flight. there s a great deal of emotion
reporter: nbc s stephanie gosk talked to alley clark. so you were filing people off with little kids on board? there were. there were a couple of parents with their kids. everybody took great care of everybody. reporter: managers say the runway had been plowed just prior to the accident and only four minutes earlier other pilots reported no difficulty landing. approximately 11:05, two planes landed and reported good braking action. reporter: but the short runwayks be challenging in the best of conditions. pilots have to be concerned about getting the airplane down in the first third of the runway. they don t have lot of margin of error. that was nbc s tom costello reporting. coming up, the director of the film selma ava duvernay joins me three days before the anniversary of the march that
Runway, the plane veered to the left. only that embankment and fence kept it from going into the freezing water. reporter: nbc s stephanie gosk talked to alley clark. so you were filing people off with little kids on board? there were. there were a couple of parents with their kids. everybody took great care of everybody. reporter: managers say the runway had been plowed just prior to the accident and only four minutes earlier other pilots reported no difficulty landing. approximately 11:05, two planes landed and reported good braking action. reporter: but the short runways can be challenging in the best of conditions. pilots have to be concerned about getting the airplane down in the first third of the runway. they don t have lot of margin of