Silent Witness

The UN's talking about getting refugees back,

but there's no water, no electricity, no work.

There's nothing to go home to.

- So we should focus on basic infrastructure. - Yeah.

Juno 537, London Centre.

Climb and maintain flight level 130.

Route direct to Ashwood Airfield.

Come on, come on.

- So you want to come see the flight deck? - Can I, Mum?

Come on, come on.

Right, go.

Juno 537, London Centre. Radio check.

Juno 537, climb and maintain flight level 130.

Adjust your altitude, Juno 537.

Hey. Open up. Come on!

Juno 537, London Centre. Climb immediately,

repeat, immediately to flight level 130.

Hey, kiddo.

Dad! Dad!

Mum's hurt!

- Where is she? - They couldn't get through the door!

Juno 537, London centre.

Dad! Please, help!

Adjust your altitude, Juno...

Help us! Please!

Climb immediately, repeat, immediately to flight level 1...

- Dr Alexander? - Yes.

- I'm Jess Fisher, AAIB. - Hi.

So who was on it?

A couple of pilots - Alex Vitarnen and Rowan Cole.

Passengers were Miriam Heller, head of a charity -

the Global Crisis Committee.

Her son, Ezra, along for the ride.

11 years old.

And Jonathan Kraft.

The Jonathan Kraft? As in ex-US Ambassador Jonathan Kraft?

He was onboard?

Hi, this is Matt. I can't get to the phone.

Please leave a message.

Matt, can you give me a call?

As soon as you get this.

Love you.

The coroner's on her way.

Our priority is body recovery.

Which is for us at The Lyell and the police to co-ordinate.

Yeah, absolutely.

-Have all the bodies been accounted for? - Not all.

The captain is still in the left seat,

and there was a second non-flying pilot hitching a lift

back from Amsterdam, the originating airport.

The passengers are harder to identify.

There was a child on board, 11-year-old Ezra Heller.

We haven't yet identified his body.

Both the adult passengers were public figures.

Miriam Heller was the public face of an NGO,

which is why they were in Amsterdam for a conference,

and Jonathan Kraft, obviously, so we need to rule out foul play.

So body recovery.

Minimum recoverable tissue is what?

In the past, we've worked on five millimetre cubed and up.

New guidelines are to recover everything we can.

Of course. We done?

Can I just ask that we restrict the site to UK personnel only?

I don't want a tug-of-war over bodies.

Thank you.

Hey.

Hey. The Embassy called. What's happening?

Matt...

Jonathan didn't make it.

No.

I'm so sorry.

He was on a target list.

He's been getting terrorist threats from fascist groups in America.

Do the police know?

- They'll be following that up. - Not if they don't know,

and they won't know unless somebody tells them. I'll come down.

Maybe wait.

They're restricting access at the moment.

What about his family?

I told the Embassy I'd call Louise. She's in Washington.

Their son...

Charlie's at Caltech.

I love you.

I better go...

make that call.

Yeah, so we need to make sure all the markers are in the right places.

Significant damage to his head and neck from the collapsing roof.

I'll say.

His hands are still on the control yoke, too.

Body's relatively intact.

Miraculously.

I think it's because of the angle of impact.

Plane came down, I think, nose pointing up.

The tail hit the ground first.

Looks like a straight fuel fire.

First impressions.

- Aw, can you take a look, Jack, see what you think? - Sure.

- Finnish. - Finished?

No, as in he was a Finn. It's on the manifest.

Oh.

The boy's phone.

Mr Heller.

Mr Heller. Look, I know.

I understand, but it's a restricted area.

I know it's hard, but now you're here, let's go and talk over here.

OK?

Thanks.

Was he thrown clear or did he move himself?

Open comminuted fractures

with a traumatic amputation of the right leg below the knee.

No blood trail, so that would suggest he was thrown clear.

Hey, Jess? Do you know if any of your AAIB people

approached the site from this direction?

Not to my knowledge, no. We all came in from over there.

What about emergency services personnel?

They came from the west, same as us.

You sure no-one came in this way?

Why are you asking?

Hey. Where are you?

Hi. Edge of the woods by the nose.

Listen. Someone's accessed the site from the east,

the woodland there. Can you look in to it, please?

Yeah, I'll check with the first responders, yeah.

Thank you.

We've got the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder.

They're still in the tail section.

It was a work thing for Miriam.

I wasn't invited.

But Ezra was?

We've got friends in Amsterdam.

His best friend, Noor.

He sent a cheeky email to Jonathan Kraft

to ask if he could hitch a ride over.

He was really nice about it.

Ezra called me from the plane

when it was in trouble.

OK.

Wanted me to help them.

Michael,

we need to know if it was a deliberate act.

Did Ezra say anything about the plane --

about what was happening?

that Miriam was hurt, and...

they couldn't get through a door.

A door to the flight deck?

There was another pilot on the plane.

A non-flying pilot.

Did Ezra mention him?

Was he on the flight deck?

I don't know.

I wasn't there.

Is that the black box? It's orange.

Jess?

Paramedic!

I think it's the boy.

We need a HEMS teams over here right away, please!

Ezra. Ezra, it's going to be all right.

Get some Fire Service down here!

We need cutters.

Nikki, it's the boy. Talk to him.

- Ezra. Jess, how we doing? - On their way, Jack.

It's going to be OK.

We're going to get you out of here.

- Fire, down here! - Jess, I want to get in here.

- No, Jack, wait! They're almost here. - No. I'm not waiting.

- Get me something! - Are you sure? - No, I'm not waiting.

Can we get Fire in?!

Let them do their job.

11 years of age. Pulse tachycardic at 140.

Ezra? He's not responding.

Blood pressure 80 over 50.

Ezra!

Ezra, can you hear me?

What software are you using for the drone mapping?

- KiteTech. - Clarissa's recommendation.

Better not slag it off, then.

How did you get into this AAIB business?

I was a pilot on commercial airlines

then studied aeronautical engineering.

Clarissa came and gave a lecture on aviation forensics.

Did she now?

Any joy with the bootprints, by the way?

Nothing.

I'll check our crew again for you. It may have been one of them.

Stepping on the wreckage? Why would they do that?

Well, I've asked. Nobody's owning up to it,

even when I put the screws on them.

Hi.

Hi.

Miriam Heller.

Jonathan Kraft.

We've ID'd body parts as well as we can at this stage.

Dental records?

Got Miriam's, and we're waiting for Washington to send over Kraft's.

There's a vertical laceration over the frontal bone,

distal radius fractured on both arms, obviously displaced.

That's why I think high-impact trauma rather than heat damage.

What, some sort of reflex action?

She puts her hands out when the plane goes into a dive?

- Clarissa. - Hi. I wanted to let you know