up to the cockpit. >> peter malgrew asked why aren't you commentating.o which his reply was, it's pretty hard to say much when you can't see anything. >> to make matters worse, the first officer is having problems making contact with air traffic control. >> still sure of his safe position over the sound, captain collins continues his descent. then at 1500 feet, the captain's confidence is shattered. collins tells his crew that conditions, quote, don't look good at all and that he'll have to climb out of it. ominously, a minute later all transmission from flight 901 stops. >> then i started calling the field parties that were still on our listening watch to see if they had heard anything over the aircraft. it was negative, no one had heard anything. >> it's late afternoon when the missing jet makes international headlines. >>> coming up, the mystery of what happened to air new zealand flight 901. >> when we came around the side of the mountain and saw the total devastation, i was shocked. it just did not look like a plane. >>> it's just before 1:00 p.m. o