brent: a former aviation investigator with the canadian transportation safety board.e appreciate your time tonight and your valuable insights. thank you. just before the canadian prime minister spoke about the crash, u.s. president donald trump had this to say about the crash in tehran that killed everyone on board. >> i have my suspicions. i do not wanted say that because other people have their suspicions also. it is a tragic thing when i see that. somebody could have made a mistake on the other side, could have made a mistake. it was flying -- not our system. at has nothing to do with us -- it has nothing to do with us. it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood. some people say it was mechanical. i personally do not think that is a question. brent: let's go now to our washington correspondent. good evening to you. apparently, the u.s. president and the canadian prime minister have shared information or have the same information. do we know anymore about the intelligence they are using to base these statements on? >> here in the united states, we have not had any

the federal aviation administration and national transportation safety board are investigating the crash, the helicopter was -- the coroner is working to recover the bodies and identify all the victims who were on board. the national transportation safety board said they are sending a team of more than a dozen people to southern california to work on investigating what happened. >> our team will be looking at the history of the pilots and whatever crew was on will be l maintenance records of the helicopter, we will be looking at records of the owner and operator of the helicopter. >> the ntsb team includes investigators, aviation experts, family assistance. counselors and this is what it looked like outside the staples center in downtown la, hundreds of people morning kobe bryant, they brought flowers, candles and other memorabilia. the staples center is the site of the grammy awards being held tonight. jason appelbaum is here with a look back at ryan's incredible career, he was only 17 years old when he started playing in the nba. never went to college and you would have to put him amon

the national transportation safety board, ntsb, they will hold a briefing any moment, as it sends investigators to the crash site. cnn is covering breaking news of this story. and nick is live on the scene in calabasas for us. what are you learning about the crash? >> reporter: wolf, we know the faa is already on scene and the ntsb on the way. i don't think we will get any official answers for quite some time. what we know from speaking to people in this area, when the crash occurred this morning, this was a very foggy morning. visibility would have been ploep i spoke to a pilot friend of mine who said he decided not to fly because of the visibility. i spoke to people on the other side of the valley about the crash and said they heard a loud impact, indicating it was not a controlled landing gone wrong but something else. we have no official indication. what we are seeing over at the crash scene there, there is still a little bit of smoke. this crash ignited a brush fire on that hill site. in the past 20 minutes or so we have seen flashbulbs of cameras taking pictures. first responders had to d

national transportation safety board says it's assigned a representative to the investigation there are reports the debris has been bulldozed into a pile but one expert says the day may provide answers there could be evidence with literally within the bodies of the victims there could point to whether or not for example an explosion took place inside or outside of the air that ukraine's president has laid flowers at a makeshift memorial at the airport where the plane was expected to land at least one vigil is being held into. round 2 and counted how many of those who died had dual nationalities this claim about citizenship you want to see his mother on holidays. and i swear i'm. greeted by. 'd some are furious that iran may have been involved in the crash others are waiting to find out when the bodies of their loved ones might return home rob matheson al jazeera. all right let's introduce our guests now in london we have david lee amount he's a consulting editor at flight global and a full of royal air force pilot in dorset in the south of england on skype we've got just him bronc he's

larry vance a former investigator with the canadian transportation safety board later we appreciate your time tonight and your valuable valuable insights thank you. well just before the canadian prime minister spoke about the crash u.s. president donald trump had this to say about the crash in tehran that killed everyone on board take a listen. i have my suspicions it was very i don't want to say that because other people have the suspicions also. it's a tragic thing when i see that it's a tragic thing. but somebody could have made a mistake on the other could've could've made a mistake it was flying it was it was flying in that our system has nothing to do with us and it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say was been cannick i personally don't think that's. even a question all right that this president almost from there let's go now to our washington correspondent public ali alias good evening to you. so apparently the u.s. president and the canadian prime minister now of have shared information or have the the same information

state of new mexico is alan diehl he's a former national transportation safety board and united states air force investigator out and let me start by asking about this admission that it was human error how does one bring down a passenger jet all of this size with human error oh of course if they're talking about that it was shot down in the chute and was caused by human error that would suggest that something is going going on perhaps in the missile battery or the command and control system that's now i investigated that were specter side over a rock it was a u.s. air force 2 air force fighter planes cut down to issue u.s. army black hawk helicopters. we see the sort of act that's occurred your previous guest mentioned the the caribbean. i believe we have lost alan diehl will be trying to get him back to speak a little more about that well we're going to move on and then return to this story when we get him back. well in other news the middle east's longest ruling monarch among sultan qaboos been side of side has died aged 793 days of mourning have now been declared and the process has

investigation is that there will be in the sea and best to get is that's the federal national transportation safety board that will be coming to look at the wreckage on the hillside which is now shrouded in darkness but is behind me we've also heard that the f.b.i. will be investigating this all of that will probably take place this morning we are tomorrow morning rather we just saw a los angeles county sheriff's all terrain vehicle being moved into position at the bottom of the hill here so we will get more information from those authorities as they begin going through not only the. crash remains the the wreckage on the hillside but also looking at the manifest looking at the maintenance history of the sikorsky 76 b. aircraft that crashed examining the records of the pilot and a number of other things a very detailed investigation into an incident of this sort that you mentioned stand the crowds that are gathering at the staples center where the lakers play basketball there's also a small crowd here on the verge unease road and people here that i've spoken to said that they're just heartbroken many said

state of new mexico is alan diehl he's a former national transportation safety board and u.s. air force investigator alan let's start with this whole admission of human error human error bringing down a passenger jet of this size this was a this was a missile talk us through the technicalities of this well. my specialty is human factors i'm an aviation psychologist and i happen to look that russian equipment at least in one of the racks that i'm of best to get in a fratricide that involves the u.s. air force so we do see human error it's not real common in these fletcher sides but it does and it does occur so what i've read and i don't know that the arabians have identified the type of missile battery but we certainly know that much of the ergonomics human factors of the equipment can be confusing we also don't know about the training of the operator so it may well be this high state of readiness and the fact that everybody is expecting some sort of retaliation from the u.s. that some low level operator sitting in a missile battery or ole miss month saw a blip and launched a m

safety record of the cause of this crash is not known there is a team from the national transportation safety board that's the federal agency that is on its way to california now to go over the debris and try to figure out whether this was caused by mechanical failure pilot error or some other cause it is known that there was some heavy fog and a low cloud cover in this particular area called calabasas to the north and west of los angeles proper at the time of the crash now i think we'll hear in just a few moments some of the tributes that are coming in from sports greats basketball legend like shaquille o'neal and bill. bar kareem up build your bar as well as others but i wanted to say that other figures are also speaking out president donald trump took to twitter today. to say that the loss of her of mr bryant is terrible news former president barack obama himself a avid basketball fan said quote koby was a legend on the court and would have just been been just as meaningful in a 2nd act he offered his condolences to kobe bryant's family as for the crash itself again the n.t.s.b. will begin its i

the national transportation safety board is activating a go team. kobe bryant and his daughter gianna and 7 other people were on board the sikorsky. sikorsky put out a statement ex pregs their con dole -- ex resting their condolences to the families. they pledged to cooperate with any investigation. as we take a look across here. the media also gathered. also dozen of fans who have come to the viet t -- have come to te to offer their condolences. there are hundreds more fans trying to get to this site. but police have gradually closed down the surrounding streets and are trying to keep people away. there is a growing crowd downtown at the staples center where the lakers played. the grammys tonight at the staples center will play tribute to kobe bryant. john legend the musician saying he cannot believe the world has lost kobe bryant. i want to read you a statement we just got in from michael jordan. michael jordan said, i am in shock over the tragic news of kobe's and gianna's passing. he was like a little brother to me. he was a fierce competitor and

boys and girls on sunday the case the causes of course is still a mystery the national transportation safety board is sending an 18 person team to investigate the cause the f.b.i. is assisting in in this effort that is part of the ordinary standard procedure it is of course dark now but the once the n.t.s.b. investigators are able to get. to work at 1st light they will be looking at the wreckage for any clues as to what might have gone wrong with the aircraft and also of course look at the. records of the pilots the safety record of the sikorsky aircraft its maintenance schedule and number of other things it's likely to be a lengthy investigation stan rob thank you rob reynolds joining us live with tributes are pouring in from around the sporting world for tybee brides looks at the korea of one of the bulls right and supplies. for 2 decades kobe bryant throws at them. every challenge that came his way in boston bulls in the t.v. the n.b.a. one of the game's all time greats he spent his entire career with the los angeles lakers winning the n.b.a. championship in 5 occasions bryant also won to him t

this now to larry vance he's a pilot and former aviation investigator with the canadian transportation safety board laird's good to have you on the show i want to ask you about what the prime minister just said there just said there that iran may allow ukrainian investigators to have access to the plane's black box and the flight recorder data. as a former crash site investigator yourself would that suffice for a proper investigation. you know it would be it would be no normal if if they were excluded anybody expertise who should be there if they would exclude him from the investigation that was not the right candidate has a right to be there canada should be there our expertise should be there along with the expertise from other places around the different countries and if they want to have a credible investigation credible findings that are accepted what the except that they're going to have to open an investigation to more than just the experience that's for sure. from what you have seen obvious obviously we don't have access to the intelligence that the prime minister of canada have or that the

the national transportation safety board is holding a news conference on the helicopter crash that killed kobe bryant, his 13-year-old daughter gianna and seven others. today we are finding out that bryant and his wife had a pact they would never ride in helicopters at the same time together. that's according to "people" magazine. the report didn't offer an explanation for why. and you are looking live now at a press conference that has just gotten underway. that's on the screen. we'll have an update on what nls to say. >> developing news on the coronavirus outbreak. china has confirmed 4515 cases. 15 cases involve chinese tourists. 106 people have now died. the virus has spread to hong kong, beijing, and the city of macao from wuhan where the outbreak began. there are five confirmed cases in the united states. two of those in california. none in the bay area. right now a chartered plane to the united states is evacuating americans from a chinese city hit hard by the virus. the united states is adding 20 airports to conduct checks on returning international travelers. united airs is cance

. >> the federal aviation administration and national transportation safety board are investigating the crash. the coroner is now working on recovering the bodies. the next up will be to officially identify all of the victims who were on board. several family members have come forward saying they have lost loved ones in the crash. >> there are reports kobe bryant and his daughter were on their way to a sporting event, the others on board included another player and parent as well is a girls basketball coach , christina meltzer who worked at a private school in orange county. the younger brother of the community college baseball coach says his brother was among those killed in the crash . a person close to tony says he confirmed his brother, his wife are among the victims saying john's daughter alyssa, who played on the club team with kobe bryant starter was also killed. his picture shows the orange coast county college baseball team, mourning the loss of their coach. he was entering his 38th year as coach at the college. >> the crash happened during foggy weather in the hills of calabas

we have to officials from the transport safety board of canada which are also on their way to ankara.as for these people to get on the ground, to have eyes on the ground to be able to provide assistance and counseling services to canadians . the latest information i got is that two visas have been issued. there remained ten that we need for our people to move into tehran. i've been calling the foreign minister of turkey today to seek his assistance as well to make sure that the iranian embassy in ankara will be issuing the visas as quickly as possible. we all know that in circumstances like the one we are facing, time is of the essence. every hour matters. we are pursuing that vigorously with all the authorities and partners around the world. >> [speaking french] hours, past week for have you had additional information about the investigation? we monitor what the canadian foreign minister has been saying about the aftermath. that it isirming actually the death toll of canadians, 57, not 63. he says time is of the essence. saying that time matters. he will be well aware about what the

canada's transportation safety board accepted, and is planning on sending an investigator to thcrash iran. as we reported, 63 canadians were on board the plane. the u.s. national transportation safety board issued a statemen tonight, saying it has designated a representative to the investigatn, and is evaluating its level of participation. sastaying in iran, mixed ms tiover cing followed from -- continuinge fallout from u.s. killing of general qasem soleimani. president hassan rouhani warned of a very dangerous response ifs the u.s. strgain, but a top revolutionary guard commander took a harder line, saying the missile attacks on heses in iraq hosting u.s. troops were onlyeginning. >> this slap by iran was a sign for another operation. the next actions must be taken by resistance cells in the region, and those actions will be taken. stephanie: meanwhile, president trump said there is no need for. furthe action, but he suggested he could order new strikes if circumstances change and he said, quote, "i wouldn't even mind doing it." boeing sent congress hundreds of pages internal message

official tells cnn iran has invited the national transportation safety board to join. allowing u.s. investigators is significant here. it allows boeing to participate, but also sets up a situation because some sanctions on iran would have to be waived to allow the u.s. to join in. our coverage begins this morning with frederick pleitgen in tehran. fred? >> reporter: good morning, laura and christine. the iranians continue to give some more information as to how they intend to move forward but also where they are at the moment. there was a press conference early this morning from the head of iran's aviation authority and in that press conference he says that he believes the theory as he put it, that the plane may have been hit by a missile is not valid as he says. he went onto say that the plane apparently took off, was in the air for about 5 minutes. at some point had tried to turn around and fly back to the airport. the head of the aviation authority also acknowledged there was all this information out there about the plane possibly getting hit by a missile. and he said anyone who

official tells cnn iran has invited the national transportation safety board to join in allowing u.s. investigators is significant here and allows boeing to participate. but it also sets up a thorny situation because some sanctions on iran would have to be waived to allow the u.s. to join. our coverage begins this morning with fred pleitgen live in tehran. and fred, you know, iran says this missile theory is all a big lie. but obviously canadian intelligence says otherwise. what are you hearing? >> reporter: yeah, canadian intelligence, u.s. intelligence and european intelligence also saying they believe that the information coming from the u.s. and canada is credible. what we have this morning, laura, was that the iranian civil aviation authority came out and the head of that authority gave a press conference here in tehran where he once reiterated the position of the authority that the fury as he put it that a missile may have struck the plane is not valid as he said. we were also able to get in touch with this man last night and he says he believes if a plane would have been struck

tnk you for joining us, i'm pam moore and i'm ken wayne the national transportation safety board and the los angeles county sheriff's department held a news conference this afternoon with an update about that crash in calabasas meantime across the country. trutes from inside basketball arenas for the legendary player who was one of the 9 people who lost their lives yesterday we have live team coverage tonight from the latest on the investigation to reaction from those who knew the former laker we begin tonight with kron four's new well bellow some of the big news from this afternoon's ntsb hearing noel ken and pam the questions of what exactly happened why it happened how this could even be possible. >>how could the kobe bryant's life come to such a tragic and these are questions that continue to play over and over in the heads of fans and admirers of coby like myself there are also questions the ntsb is looking to answer today was their first full day at the very large ccident site and they're getting a better idea of what happened in the moments leading up to e crash that took 9 ec

thank you rob well you know i spoke to allendale and he's a former national transportation safety board and u.s. air force investigator he says many questions still need answers. we do see human error it's not real common in these threats or sides but it does and it does occur so what i read and i don't know that the ravens have identified that type of missile battery but we certainly know that much of the ergonomic human factors of the weapon can be confused and we also don't know about the training of the operators so it may well be this high state of readiness and the fact that everybody is expecting some sort of retaliation from the u.s. that some low level operator sitting in a missile battery role miss saw a blip and launched a missile at it because they assumed it was some sort of possible 'd the appeal or we know that in some case this equipment as a basically a law on that capability an automated lock so that there's a lot we can hopefully the iranians will fill it lines and i can tell you that in the past i've had to defend u.s. air force personnel who are involved with threat

based in ankara this is a team of 10 people from global affairs we have 2 officials from the transport safety board of canada which are also on their way to ankara we need visas for these people to get on the ground to have eyes on the grounds and boots on the ground to be able to provide the assistance and be able to provide obviously consular services to canadian today as we speak the latest information i got is that 2 visa yes i've been issued to our team so they remain 10 visas that we want to that we need obviously for people to move into tehran and i've been calling the foreign minister of turkey today to seek his assistant as well to make sure that the iranian embassy in ankara would be issuing to visas as quickly as possible because we all know that in circumstances like the one where facing time is of the essence every our worst mother and we are pursuing that vigorously with all the authorities and partners around the world michael can i do it kind of move right into more. it's easier as you. ministers to prevent for the last hours dizzy from a. parent's invest in evolution. theory time e

safety record so the cause of this crash is not known there is a team from the national transportation safety board that's the federal agency that is on its way to california now to go over the debris and try to figure out whether this was caused by mechanical failure or pilot error or some other cause it is known that there was some heavy fog and a low cloud cover in this particular area called calabasas to the north and west of los angeles proper at the time of the crash the u.s. embassy in baghdad has been targeted by rockets in a red direct his previous attacks landed near the facility 3 weeks ago approaches to storm the embassy days before the u.s. security iranian general qassam so the money a sum of in joe biden baghdad says the iraqi prime minister has condemned the attacks. so far we have not had any claim of responsibility as there has been no claim of responsibility in the previous attacks it's been this these attacks have intensified when the assassination i sense and in money and many in on this took place in january and there's been multiple volleys which would be to fight in the gree

a short time ago the national transportation safety board gave a brief update on the latest from theck box. and there isn't a requirement to have a black box on this, so there was no cvr, no fdr. there was an ipad where for flight, which is essentially a flight plan, weather briefings, and the pilot uses that in—flight. we will be looking at other avionics on the aircraft to see what information we can gather and then we are going to be looking for other electronics. i spoke earlier to the chinese singaporean professional basketball player wong wei long. i asked him what did he feel when he heard the news of kobe bryant's death. i woke up yesterday at 10am and i was shocked when i heard the news. it wasn't from facebook or instagram, but just from my friends. 0n the group chat with all my friends and colleagues, they put up the information about kobe's death. he just impacted everyone, notjust basketball players. everyone was shocked and devastated but did you ever get to meet kobe or even be near him? probably just ten rows away from courtside. he was there at the game, the 30th of

studio: we are listening to a live press conference from the national transportation safety board, thensportation, accident investigation. they are looking into the crash of the helicopter in which nine people including kobe bryant were killed. some points tojust bear in mind from this. there was no black box is the spokesperson said, there was no need for a black box. a lot of concern about the weather. we heard the spokesperson say that they are looking at notjust the weather, also the man, the machine and the environment, the weather is a small part of that. a particularly poignant question, whether there was any chance of survival following this crash and the spokesperson said that this is all part of the investigation and that this crash scene was devastating. she described this crash scene is being devastating. also an appeal for the public for help. anybody with photos to provide those photos, the area of the crash scene, the e—mail address witness@ntsb.gov. we will continue to monitor this press conference. basketball fans around the world are still coming to terms. with me now

video, the helicopter can the group is seeing shortly before it went down and the national transportation safety board says could be 12 to 18 months before they could put out their finalreport on the crash will include findings recommendations and a probable cause after navigating amounts of rain workers removed the remains of all 9 victims from the crash site on tuesday. >>the ntsb has also turned to local authorities. over meanwhile, when it comes to funeral arrangents for kobe bryant that has yet to be determined. in los angeles i'm darryl forges us. >>the question portion of the impeachment trialis now underway. and spoke to senators about their questions. i'm alexandra limos in washington with that story coming up. >>plus a ttle between governgavin wsome and pg continues why he says if the utility doesn't hold its end of the bargain. the state will take ntl of e company had nexus 6.3a big boost to help fight omelessness in the bay area which company is now donating million to lp tom: my mom always told me actions speak louder than word she was a school tcher. my dadoined the navy and helped prose

. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board will investigate the crash.s van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> o'donnell: tonight, we are learning shocking new details about an alleged saudi plot aimed at silencing jeff bezos, the founder of amazon and the owner of "the washington post." bezos' phone was hacked, possibly by the saudi crown prince. jeff pegues on a motive and what's in a new forensic investigation commissioned by bezos. >> reporter: according to the report, amazon billionaire, jeff bezos, and saudi crown prince mohammad bin salman exchanged messages on whatsapp before, but the message sent in 2018 set in motion a chain of events. the u.n. says an mp4 video file sent from an whatsapp account used by the crowned prince infected bezos' phone and caused a massive and unprecedented exfiltration of data. the flow of information out of "the washington post" owner's phone jumped by 29,000%, and he would soon get messages from the account signaling that he was being spied on. the saudis weren't happy with "the washington post" coverage of the kingdo

story now to larry lindsey he's a pilot former aviation investigator with the canadian transportation safety board there it's good to have you on the program i just want to get your reaction to this news that's come across that we've got u.s. officials saying that the intelligence nil is strong enough to say that this airplane was most likely shot down by accident by a really missile. well they certainly have more access to intelligence than the rest of this have so i would guess that they're they're pretty sure if they're spreading misinformation around they have the information to confirm. that's what's on their say so but until that information is confirmed in a release where they have or the iranians or or some official source recent study from a ship as it's an accident investigator which is what i am you have to still assume that they're going to carry on with the normal the normal investigation activities well i mean if we're still in the dark i mean we're really in the dark aren't we if iran does not turn over the flight data recorder box and what we would normally have been in in a situat

a team of more than a dozen investigators from the national transportation safety board in washingtontched to los angeles to try to get to the bottom of what actually caused this horrific helicopter crash about 10:00am this morning local time. but i have to say, there were a lot of people who went to the scene, were drawn to the scene, by the fire that caused — resulted from this helicopter crash. and in actualfact, about a quarter of an acre of land was scorched by that fire, apparently. it does appear to be something to do with limited visibility. it's been very foggy here in los angeles over the last few days, and a lot of suggestions that that will have played a part in this crash, but we really will have to wait and see. officials had their work cut out initially actually clearing the area around the crash site, because so many kobe bryant fans flocked there to basically pay their respects and to witness what was going on. david, of course, we've seen so many reactions come in, and tributes from everyone he played with. and notable of course that the grammys, the music industry's

crucially, the canadian transportation safety board because they do have very good expertise and thingsthe black boxes. i should also add quickly if i made that something very odd came from the iranians government yesterday or today, they wa nted government yesterday or today, they wanted to invite the russians into investigate or analyse the black box and given that it is probably a russian missile that brought down the aircraft, that would be a bit odd, i think. iran says it is military that shot down the plane. will foreign investigators including canadian investigators including canadian investigators want to have access to that decide whether missile was fired? will that that decide whether missile was fired ? will that be that decide whether missile was fired? will that be crucial to an investigation? that is a very good point. in the case of mh i7, investigation? that is a very good point. in the case of mh 17, the russians to this day have not turned over primary radar data which will give a lot of clues as to what actually happened. i think in this case, it behoves them to turn

says it is investigating the accident, alongside the national air transport safety boa rd, as alongside the national air transport safety board after any air accident in us. officials are to give further details at a news conference. that will be at the top of the hour, in around 25 minutes, at10p uk top of the hour, in around 25 minutes, at 10p uk time. top of the hour, in around 25 minutes, at10p uk time. a top of the hour, in around 25 minutes, at 10p uk time. a huge figure, a huge day, and devastating news for the world of sport. kobe brya nt news for the world of sport. kobe bryant playing his entire 20 year career with the los angeles lakers, he retired in 2016, and his achievements go on and on. in 2008, he was the nba most valuable player, two—time nba scoring champion, and a two—time nba scoring champion, and a two—time olympic champion, so the magnitude of this news across the basketball world but, across the whole sporting world, right across the globe, because of the popularity of the nba and basketball, particularly in asia, as we were hearing. this is an enormous news story, and very tragic development. reaction

overnight, iranian officials inviting the canadian and united states national transportation safety board along with boeing to help in the investigation as the country continues to deny shooting down the jet calling it scientifically impossible, but look. this was the scene hours after the crash wednesday, and this is video from thursday morning. the crash scene cleared by the iranian government of wreckage and potential evidence, but investigators did recover the black box which could help piece together the truth. before americans can join the investigation, the state department and other government officials would need to give the green light for the ntsb to participate. >>> now to the other story breaking overnight also affecting boeing, more company messages have been turned over to congress in connection with the investigation of the 737 max jet. that plane has been grounded after two deadly crashes. the messages revealed boeing employees mocking the faa and discussing how to deceive regulators. one message reads, the airplane is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by mon

>>national transportation safety board says it is investigating all aspects of the flight includitg weather conditions in flight tracking the ntsb says there was not a black box on board that chopper was not required to have one. the board is also asking for help from anybody who might have pictures or video of the crash. they'd like you to get in touch with them so they can see would visual aids to help them with the investigation. >>and our mission is not to just determine what happened. but why it happened and how it happened to prevent this accident has similar accident from ever happening. again. we also have a weather investigator. and speaking of weather we have a request for the public. we're looking for. photos of the weather in the area of the crash. if you have photos. that can help us again in the area of the crash. if you could send those photos to witness at ntsb dot gov. >>and that's witness said ntsb dot gov we have a link to that on kron 4 dot com. this is an ongoing investigation of course we're expecting another news conference with the ntsb at some point tomorrow. the nb

national transportation safety board the n.t.s.b. to assist with the investigation as well although we're waiting for more details and confirmation of that that would be very difficult and i'll explain a little bit more on that coming up but the ukrainian plane just some background here was bound for kidd of it went down early wednesday morning it was reportedly in flames before hitting the ground but according to even iranian officials did not send a distress signal now asked about the disaster today president trump would not say stop short of saying that the plane was shot down only that quote i have my suspicions and then adding that somebody could have made a mistake on the other side the other side being iran kristie so what is iran saying about the crash has toronto taken any responsibility or even made any sort of statement. while iran has refused to turn over the airplane so-called black box which is the flight data recorder and kong cockpit voice recorder to turn that over either to boeing the plane's manufacturer or u.s. of

are told are now in turkey waiting to get visas to get into tehran as far as the national transportation safety board is concerned they sent out a release basically saying the lead agency on this will be the iranian aviation authorities the n.t.s.b. said that they are willing to assist on this in any way but they need to be invited by the. iranian's they said otherwise we aren't going to speculate on this so it is a lot more complicated than a normal plane crash certainly but everyone wants to basically get to the bottom of this quickly because the sooner they can get on the ground and all of these teams can start gathering all of the information that's necessary the sooner we'll reach a conclusion of what actually did happen in conclusion though it should be pointed out that there rains are the lead investigators are on this right now and they say that they will do a full and transparent investigation and keep everybody involved particularly ukraine of course where this plane was from thank you deborah well it's on in washington d.c. . so the thoughts now from thomas you know who is an assistant pro

right now canada is only allowed to send to transportation safety board investigators to iran.rkey waiting for their visas to be processed and that is because eve ryo ne processed and that is because everyone has not granted canada full access to the site to be actively involved in this investigation. instead, eleanor, because they lost canadian people in this crash, they have rights under international aviation requirements that allows them to send at least one investigator to the site to be able to see the site, but they might not have access to it, and to get access to it and view the final report. as of right now, that is not the access at cannon apartment prime minister, justin trudeau wants. it is canada deserves more. so many canadians lost lives this crash. 57 died, as you said. it doesn't seem like to investigators is quite what canada would want. are there a bunch of investigators in canada ready to go if more visas are granted? exactly, and these two investigators would only really be observers in around u nless only really be observers in around unless they allow mo

removed and identify the remains so that process is like this one for some time the national transportation safety board that's a federal agency that studies crashes and other types of transport problems is on the scene they will be looking certainly at the weather conditions at the time it was very for good people there yesterday told us they could barely see anything up in the hills and also the pilots decision to request and to receive permission to fly by special visual flight rules could that have had something to do with the accident we don't know that's what the investigators i think are going to be focusing on. u.s. prosecutors involved in the jeffrey epstein sex trafficking inquiry want to interview britain's prince andrew but new york attorney general geoffrey berman says that the prince has provided 0 cooperation he said prosecutors and the f.b.i. investigating the epstein case had contacted the duke of york's lawyers and asked to interview him but there had been no response. january 27 marks 75 years since the liberation of the auschwitz concentration camp in poland survivors returned to the

that's right sale and just a quick update for you the national transportation safety board is holding a briefing for reporters at this moment closer to the crash site they are stressing that they're going to be looking not only at the wreckage in the debris field of that sikorsky $76.00 b. helicopter that went down killing 9 people including kobe bryant but also looking at all maintenance records for the helicopter discussions between the pilots and the ground controllers other pilots record and a host of other things so it's going to be a very thorough investigation now yes people here have been gathering all day we've been here since early this morning and the crowd has just grown so many people here to pay their respects want to talk to one of them cynthia graham who's here with some of her friends and family cynthia thanks a lot for talking with us each only you were a big laker fan you'd gone to a lakers game and like games what it what it kobe bryant me to you well he meant a lot to me he was a legacy he was a hero to me he was he was everything that. that every he was just my l

it has switched it to the national transportation safety board bureau and the federal aviation administrationsisting. we await the arrival of the coroner's office to assist in the recovery of the remains. as the chief indicated, there were no survivors. there were nine people on board the aircraft. the pilot plus eight individuals. there is white exportation lee speculation —— wide speculation as to who the victims but it would be to who the victims but it would be to identify any by the name until the coroner has made their study. it will be extremely disrespectful to understand that your loved one has perished and you learn about it from tv. it's wholly inappropriate, so we will not go there. we will wait for the coroner to do theirjob, and we are assisting the families of those who believe they are impacted, and it's a tough process. our hope goes out to all the members on board, or the family of those on board this aircraft, and god bless their souls. at this point, we have nothing to add until the coroner does their job, and we will be making those notifications when we have the informat

man machine and the environment and weather is just a small portion of that the national transportation safety board says determining the cause of the accident could take weeks or more weather conditions at the time of the accident which included heavy fog and low visibility as well as the pilot's decision to use what's known as special visual flight rules could be key areas of the investigation on monday the national basketball association postponed a game scheduled for tuesday between the l.a. lakers and the l.a. clippers that contest would have been the 1st lakers game since the death of kobe bryant it will be rescheduled rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. the u.s. says one of its military planes has crashed in afghanistan gametime down in a mountainous area in the eastern province of of the military is denying claims by the taliban that it shot down the plane the bomb but the aircraft is used to provide communication abilities in remote locations the taliban says high ranking u.s. officers were on board and that everyone was killed mexican officials soldier was killed at a general injured duri

recorders and that sort of thing the other thing is that the inspectors of the canadian transportation safety board who made the announcement in ottawa that there are people were on the way or possibly even they are now said that iran was being extremely cooperative that the international convention on civil aviation requires any countries whose nationals are killed or affected by an air crash to be involved in some way in an investigation but it's not a an extensive role but iran has indicated a willingness to canada according to the news conference that it can also participate in downloading and analyzing cockpit and flight data recorders that's why the other experts are going to be deployed to ankara in turkey to do that canada's going to go to the crash site the 2 inspectors that are there right now as soon as they get to tehran or perhaps the 1st thing the next morning that wasn't made clear the inspectors will also be not making any public announcements that's what they said in ottawa that it's up to iran to inform the public about what's going on in the investigation overall a fairly positiv

general and vista geisha we have a team of officials from global affairs canada and the transportation safety board in place in ankara in turkey to date the iranians have issued 2 visas and we expect the other visas will be granted soon so we can begin providing consular services help with the advent of fixation of the victims and obviously participate in the investigation. iran has given ukraine access to the black box flight recorders from that aircraft 176 people were killed in total several governments and sharing information with each other about what may have caused the crash castiel it has for the un as more and thus a gator's are hoping these black boxes will provide answers on what caused the ukrainian plane to crash into iran shortly after takeoff killing all 176 passengers on board the u.s. has shared its until with ukraine and the country's foreign minister says iran is cooperating send a special command there to the the team has gained access to the black boxes 1st we plan to begin reconstruction of the conversations before the crash we also have access to the records of dispatches of