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The final moments before impact. abc's david kerley is in birmingham. >> reporter: huge flames erupted just before dawn as the giant u.p.s. cargo jet shattered into pieces, crashing just short of the birmingham airport and about 1,000 feet from several homes. >> really, really loud. and then it shook the house. like it rattled the house. >> a big fireball. >> there were three of them. there were three pieces that rolled back down the hill. >> reporter: with daylight, a clear picture of how the airbus a-300 broke apart and burned. a wing here. engines there. nose section mostly intact. but back...

>> i saw the helicopter come over and hit the top of the crane. >> big fireball. black smoke. people are running around everywhere. >> it crashed down. >> inside the fiery disaster in the heart of a major city. she slipped and fell and wound up jammed between two walls. >> i live on the fifth floor and i looked down and you couldn't see her no more. >> we were assuring her we were doing everything we could to get her out as soon as possible. >> rick: tonight, how she got there and what it took to set her free. terrorists are holding americans hostage and they say they are doing it for revenge....

24 hours ago a pilot apparently with a grudge against the government slammed his plane into a building packed full of irs employees. now, amazingly, aside from the dead pilot, one other person, we understand at this point, was killed. thirteen were injured which is just incredible when you look at the devastation of this building, and the witnesses described what they saw. >> it's right across the road, hit that building across the street with a massive boom. big fireball came out. you could feel everything shake. the people are inside said they felt the whole building shake, then fire spread ...

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