found came shortly after villagers reported seeing the airplane crash. the search has suspended until tomorrow because of thunderstorms in the area and because it is night fall. let s bring in cnn s aviation correspondent, richard quest, and also experienced 777 pilot le les abend. les, as an experienced pilot, give us an idea of the types of things that could happen that would suddenly have a plane crash into the mountains there. absolutely, fredricka. you know, this is something that s still a developing story, as we all know. we can t jump to any conclusions, especially with witness reports. we know witness reports very often are inaccurate so let s wait until the morning, of course, and see what we see. what could have happened is it could have been some sort of mechanical issue. if it was related to weather, perhaps there was a possibility with a thunderstorm, breaking up in flight.
people saying it was a drone, then someone else said a model airplane. she said she wasn t sure she just saw it flying up and she had assumed that it was. i m not positive that it was a drone now. we did have someone say they saw it on the ground i didn t get a good look at whether or not. it could have been either a drone or airplane. he was trying to fly something over the fence. and i should mention that it never got over the fence. the drone or the small plane whatever it was, the model plane, the drone, it never got over the fence surrounding the white house, is that right? is that what you said? yes, it did not get over the fence. basically, saw something going on then all of the sudden the secret service went into action. now this follows a few weeks ago, viewers remember that there was a drone that flew over the white house and actually landed on the grounds of the white house, but that was an incident involving someone who just did it by mistake, right? yeah and that w
individuals, this was a coordinated terror strike that was affiliated with a specific terror group? do you know yet? if you do by witness reports, there were some accounts that they stated al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. do you accept that? you ve got to put that into the equation. there s one thing that i think chairman mccaul pointed out. chairman of the house homeland security. the fact that they carried weapons, had their faces covered, they were there to commit murder, to get away not the typical lone wolf i m going to die on behalf of allah. this was not a suicide operation. you re exactly right. that leads us to believe they had a significant amount of training but also knew exactly what they were there to do and how to do it. do you have any clue where they were trained was it iraq syria, yemen, north africa? we don t. i think that clearly the french
runway. one of the two teenagers who died. did that cause her death? they don t know. the coroner is investigating that. but as you can expect, that is heartbreaking and very distressing to the fire department which engaged in a heroic rescue effort and got all of those people off of that plane safely. chris, back to you. nbc s tom costello, thank you very much for that. when i first started seeing information about asiana s flight 214 on twitter, started reading witness reports, saw pictures of a smoking plane, reports that the tail of the plane snapped off, i got that horrible plummeting feeling you sometimes get when first encountering breaking news. we were looking at a situation where hundreds of people may be dead. then i saw these incredible pictures coming in of the survivors of the crash walking away. walking away from a boeing 777 whose tail had broken off. more than 300 people were onboard and all but 2 survived. seeing those people reminded me of the miracle, the truly
for any other suspicious activity, monitoring the place. we keep seeing very, very heavily armed police personnel coming into this scene, still that they can go and go through th sprawling campus. there s a lot of rooms and a lot of places to hide and a lot of places that they would have to check out so they re bringing in tons of resources and personnel in order to go through santa monica college and make sure that it is safe. hold on for a minute, miguel, because joining us on the phone right now sergeant denise joslyn with the california highway patrol. sergeant, what can you tell us about the possibility of a second suspect. what do we know? what i can tell you is we did have several witness reports that came in via our 911 caller system identifying a possible second shooter. there s reports that some callers had heard shots fired in the area. those calls came in after we had taken a first suspect into