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Restart the engine. instead, the captain asks the flight engineer to try to start engine number four while they are still at 41,000 feet. the restart attempt fails, and the continued loss of thrust begins to slow the airplane down, but thats not the only problem. >> if you have failure of one engine, you now have an asymmetrical or unbalanced pow and the airplane will want to roll toward the failed engine because there is more power pro-dusd on the other wing. >> reporter: the airplane is rollin...

Denser so they can try to restart the engine. instead, the captain asks the flight engineer to restart engine number four while they are still at 41,000 feet. the restart attempt fails and the continued loss of thrust slows the airport down. >> if you have the failure of one engine, you have an unbalanced power and the airplane will tend to want to roll toward the failed engine because there is more power being produced on the other wing. >> the airplane is rolling to the right toward engine fou...

With a fatigued pilot youre going to have a performance degradation. the question is not if but the question is in severity. >> investigators believe despite engine number four, the cause of the accident was the captains pre preok pax. his failure to monster flight instruments and his own reliance on the auto pilot. >> on a four-engine aircraft with the loss of one engine, that is not a catastrophic event or even an emergency event if it is controlled properly and it is handled by all the crew m...

Tower that they have fire. so they go, i have a fire in the number two engine. >> but the situation is not what the pilots suspect. desperately trying to get enough speed to get airborne, they try to pull up the landing gear. >> it wouldnt come up because the left side was damaged by the fire. >> they are not in a position to continue level flight, and at that point they realized they needed on the ground at the closest airport. it wasnt a good choice, but it the best choice that they had. >> yo...

They have been told by control tower that they have fire. so they go, i have a fire in the number two engine. >> but the situation is not what the pilots suspect. desperately trying to get enough speed to get airborne, they try to pull up the landing gear. >> it wouldnt come up because the left side was damaged by thç fire. >> they are not in a position to continue level flight, and at that point they realized they needed on the ground at the closest airport. it wasnt a good choice, but it the ...

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Begun to get warnings. they have been told by control tower that they have fire. so they go hmm, we have a fire. >> desperately trying to get enough speed to get airborne they try to pull up the landing gear. >> it wouldnt come up because the left side was damaged by the fire. >> they are not in a position to continue level flight, and at that point they realized they needed on the ground at the closest airport. it wasnt a good choice but it the best choice that they had. >> you have a fire and ...

We will wa tell you what causedn engine malfunction a mile high into the air. >> engine number 4 has failed on the right hand side. arent absorbed properly unless taken with food. he recommended citracal. its different -- its calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. citracal.

Converged on ground zero that day. thats because its the closest firehouse. its just across the street from what was the base of the world trade center. and here are some of their thoughts in their own words. >> my name is vincent. i worked for new york city fire department engine company number 10 ladder company 10 for 22 years. >> im with fire company engine number 10. >> couldnt make sense of what was happening. we were over at the battalion getting on a bus coming to the city. and on my way ...