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NTSB-PLANE CRASH UPDATE.
Advanced Materials & Composites News, May, 2002
Government investigators are focusing on the tail section of doomed American Airlines Flight 587 after finding no evidence of engine failure, fire or explosives in the aftermath of the New York crash, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said May 4. Board Chairwoman Marion Blakey said investigators are looking at two possibilities: Either the tail was not designed to handle the stresses it encountered, or it was weakened by a previously unseen flaw, either undetected damage or a tail section that wasn't built to specifications.
"I wish we had the answers. We are really trying to go down each path," Blakey said at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center, where experts are analyzing the plane's tail fin and...
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