Runway First News Today

The fire department was there quickly or there wasnt a lot of fuel on board. >> tom, you know, again, you have covered transportation for a long time. you have been on a lot of planes, done stories about a lot of planes. when you look at the image to the left and you see the fuselage, while obviously, it was engolfed at some point and they are dousing it with whatever they use to put the flames out, the tail is off. it looks like theres been substantial damage. what does that tell you? the fact ...

>> rick: as we take a look at the debris. you saw just a minute ago that colorful piece of debris right at the tip of the runway that we believe to be a part of the tail that simply broke away. there have been some eyewitness reports it was the back of the plane that hit the runway first, slamming down. that is where the tail came off. then you can imagine, you can see the distance there that the plane actually traveled, skidded before coming to a stop. its hard to know exactly how long that is....