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The tail fin shears off the Airbus fuselage and the plane is doomed. The horrifying crash takes the lives of passengers, In the golden age of ocean liners, one ship has been built to outpace and outshine them all: the Titanic. Billed as the "Unsinkable" ship, the Titanic is a mechanical marvel, a combination of innovative and luxurious design. However, just days after its voyage begins, the Titanic meets a catastrophic end, becoming one of the biggest shipping disasters of all time.

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With the circumstances behind the police's actions shrouded in mystery, one athlete's wife vows to uncover the truth. An anonymous source begins sending During the Vietnam War on 29 July, , Dollarhide was one of six Skyhawk pilots on deck, preparing for an airborne attack.

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As officials work to identify a cause, a second Only 31 seconds after take-off at PM, the plane slams into a trailer park community. Drivers on nearby roads were watching --transfixed -- as the plane -- flying low and slow -- struggled to stay aloft. It tried to get up a little bit higher. And it started turning. And then suddenly -- the giant plane plunged to the ground. Alice Brooking : And my first reaction was that there'd been an earthquake. Alice Brooking , a year-old British student, was in her room in the hotel when the Concorde hit.

Alice Brooking : The walls were shaking, and the paintings were coming off the walls. They were falling to the ground. She quickly realized there was only one way out of her second floor room alive -- through the window. She jumped -- and ran. Alice Brooking: It was a scene from hell.

It was absolute pandemonium. So people were literally all around me shaking. Most of the passengers who died that day -- the German tourists -- were on a charter flight to New York. Once there, they were due to board a cruise ship. There was one American on the plane. And nine French crew members. President Clinton: I wanted to extend the deepest condolences of the American people to the families of those who were lost.

Four more people died on the ground. Eyewitnesses who saw the blazing crash site through heat and haze were profoundly shaken. Few realized it then, but the crash was the beginning of the end for the world's first supersonic passenger plane. French aviation investigators had a deadly mystery to solve. What could have happened?

How could a supersonic plane without a crash to its name, with a highly skilled crew, on a clear afternoon -- suddenly smash into the ground less than two minutes after take-off? When an Air France Concorde fell out of the sky in the summer of and crashed into a hotel near Charles de Gaulle airport, French air accident investigators were on the scene in minutes -- the accident happened -- literally -- in their backyard.

Peter Peter Greenberg: In aviation terms, you actually got to the scene when the plane was hot. Paul Louis Arslanian: Initially, the beginning of the investigation is always the same. Identify the wreckage. Protect any evidence. Find the recorders and so on. But this was no ordinary investigation --because this was no ordinary plane. It was the Concorde -- a powerful symbol of French national pride. Peter Peter Greenberg: You said it was a myth. It was bigger than life, wasn't it.

Paul Louis Arslanian: Yes. Concorde was called beautiful white bird, for example, nick-named. But why? Somewhere in this scene from hell were clues that would help investigators determine what brought the Concorde down. All of France was waiting for answers -- and so was the rest of the world. As it happened, investigators located the plane's black boxes -- its flight recorders -- almost immediately, while the debris was still smoldering.

Paul Louis Arslanian: To recover the recorders, one of our staff has to put an oxygen mask and-- goggles.

There were two recorders in orange boxes like these. One tracked flight data. The other, the cockpit voice recorder, recorded the voices of the three-man crew. Back at headquarters, investigators got to work immediately. They call this the reading room.

And it was in this soundproof room, nine hours after the crash, that French investigators were able to listen to the last 90 seconds of a stricken plane. French law prohibits the release of the cockpit voice recording after a crash. But an official transcript of what was said in the final moments of Flight was issued. Dateline has recorded excerpts from that transcript: the words are real but the voices are not. Investigators listened as the control tower warned the Concorde's crew that the plane was on fire.

The first thing they learned was that the crew didn't know they had a serious problem -- until the tower told them they did. Concorde zero four five nine zero you have flames, you have flames, behind you. Second, they learned the flight engineer, the third crew member in the cockpit, decided early on that Engine two -- on the left side of the plane, the same side as the fire -- had failed.

And after the plane was airborne, he confirmed that he'd shut that engine down. And finally they heard the crew struggling to get the landing gear up so the plane could get the speed and height it needed. But the gear wouldn't budge. It was all over less than two minutes after takeoff. The cockpit voice recorder and data from the flight recorder gave investigators vital clues about when and why engine two was shut down.

And about the landing gear that wouldn't retract. But the black boxes couldn't provide investigators with the one answer they wanted -- the catalyst. What set the accident in motion? Paul Louis Arslanian: We understood very quickly that something happened. Just at takeoff. It was not-- absolutely not obvious. They searched the runway for clues and found pieces of a tire that had been oddly slashed.

What they found next was even more puzzling. Paul Louis Arslanian: It was a strip of metal which was twisted. It was typically not a part of the Concorde.

And it had nothing to do on the runway. Bob Macintosh, of the U. National Transportation Safety Board, was an accredited American representative to the Concorde investigation. Bob Macintosh: We just didn't recognize immediately where that piece of metal might have come from.

But they did recognize that the piece of metal was important -- because it matched the slash in the tire. It wasn't long before they identified the piece as an airplane part called a wear strip, a part that reduces wear and tear in the plane's thrust reverser as the plane slows down. But how did this bent strip -- this stray piece of metal -- get on the runway? Paul Louis Arslanian: It appeared that it was a part which fall from another plane.

So, the question was which plane? They had another mystery to solve. They had to track the planes that had taken off in the hours before the Concorde. Which one had dropped that strip? Paul Louis Arslanian: I had one investigator who spent a lot of time trying to find all those other planes and just have a look on them to see from where this part could have fallen.

Bob Macintosh: It came through Paris one day and-- a-- sharp investigator went out and he said, "I think I see the spot where that aircraft may have dropped a piece. Bob Macintosh: I talked to their-- chief of safety. We found the location of the aircraft. It was-- it was making two or three stops and was gonna come back into Houston. Federal Aviation Administration, headed to Houston. It was the very same DC that had taken off five minutes -- and two planes -- before the doomed Concorde. They raced out to take a look, and they made a stunning discovery.

Bob Macintosh: Lo and behold-- it was very visible-- in-- in a micro minute. That wear strip was missing from that thrust reverser area. And it was a bit shocking. Shocking, because on that Saturday morning in Houston, the investigators realized they were looking at a plane that may have inadvertently played a central role in the Concorde crash.

Bob Macintosh: And-- we opened it up-- took a look. We had some good dimensions from this famous piece that was locked up back in the evidence room in-- in Paris. But-- we knew it was a match. It was a vital clue -- but was it enough to explain what had happened? Weeks after the crash, French investigators came to a decision.

An agonizing one. Until they knew the whole story, the supersonic planes had to be taken out of the sky. Paul Louis Arslanian: Facts were there. Everything was there. So something had to be done. Three weeks after the crash -- Arslanian recommended the suspension of the Concorde's airworthiness certificate. It was an extraordinary step -- and it angered some of his fellow citizens.

But his recommendation was accepted. France's six Concordes and the seven flown by British Airways would be out of service for the next 18 months.

With all those Concordes sitting on the ground, the pressure became even greater to figure out exactly how the crash happened -- and make sure it couldn't happen again.

French investigators had months of work ahead of them. But when they did issue their final report, it would immediately ignite controversy.

After the crash of the Concorde in July -- and the decision to ground the supersonic fleet -- French investigators knew they had to work fast to figure out what had happened. They had some tantalizing clues: Among them, pieces of a slashed tire and a bent strip of metal that matched.