Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111001:16:19:00
Cycle, putting stress on the broken flange, the crack is growing, and no one knows it. eight weeks after the engine change when flight 191 takes off on that warm spring afternoon, suddenly, without warning, disaster. >> takeoff is when this engine's producing the most thrust when there's the most force on the pylon is during takeoff. if it were going to fail, makes absolutely perfect sense it would fail shortly after takeoff. >> as flight 191 starts to lift off at the end of the runway, the cracked flange fails. ripping the engine away, and taking with it a portion of the left wing's leading e...