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what happened in this one. is there some disagreement in the cockpit, you have weather and an aircraft malfunction, something like that, is that what we are going to look at? talk about the challenges of figuring that out with debris at the bottom of the ocean and spread out over such a large area. in fact, one of the things i do is give safety seminars to pilots. we talk at the chain of the accident and a chain is something to break the links. it is usually more than one thing that goes wrong. that s why aviation is to safe. there are so many backups to what you do. and so that to me is probably more than one thing here. we are all looking at the weather. that may have been the problem, but was there something he could have done prior to that. from what i ve read, the request to go to 38,000 feet came at 6:12 local time and five minutes later it was off the radar. it felt like something was happening and they were in the midst of something happening and were trying to get away f
the field. instead it kept rising. reporter: the flames that engulfed the passenger basket created more hot air, sending the craft soaring skyward. witnesses report explosions and the basket plunged to earth. family members say the pilot was daniel kirk, a man with more than two decades of experience who made heroic efforts to save the doomed flight. this veteran pilot said there wasn t much he could do.รง when a flame comes to that magnitude, it will give a lot more heat and it will go up in the air and be out of control. reporter: joe hamilton says power lines are his biggest worry. all pilots are aware of that. we receive a lot of training, we go to safety seminars constantly. we are aware of the power lines. sometimes they are hidden behind trees. there s a lot of reasons why something like that could happen. reporter: government investigators must now find out what they were. susan saulny, abc news, virginia. violence broke out as voters in eastern ukraine went to the
her offcampus apartment at about 4:30 in the morning, after a night hoof partying with friend june 3rd, three months ago today. this summer, her parents retraced the steps at the same time of night. rob speier says what they saw disturbed them. we saw people walking, many of them were inebriated, some walking by themselves. our message had not registered with people. reporter: as the school year begins, lauren s apartment complex held safety seminars. we were extremely, extremely disappointed by the lack of turnout. they re either invincible or they are just completely oblivious to their surroundings. reporter: weeks of searching, including last month s search of thousands of tons of trash at a landfill, haven t turned up any trace of lauren. rob and charlene have been in bloomington all summer, putting