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On November 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587 crashed into Belle Harbour in New York's Queens district.

The crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in Belle Harbor, Queens, stunned and terrified a region still reeling from the horror of 9/11.

The sun will rise at 5:39. a moment ago we were showing those red severe thunder cells that this plane was flying into when the pilot requested to fly to a higher altitude. talk about a plane breaking up that air algier. what about airbus planes. back in 2001 american airlines light 587, it wasn't even a severe storm. it took off from an active runway in jfk in the vortex of a boeing 747. because it started to buffet as it was taking off apparently the co-pilot took a hard turn on the rudder and that tail came right off. that's unbelievable. you would think they would have solved that issue by...

There was a vortex from a boeing 747 that took off before it and apparently the co-pilot yanked the yoke too much to one side and the tail late lititerally fell off. do you think there's a problem number one -- we're looking now at the scene of the american airlines flight that crashed in queens just after takeoff. two questions, john. number one, are we dealing with crews that even though they have thousands and thousands of hours of flying time, they rely too much on the computerized systems. number two, is there an issue with the composite materials of these airbus which is they went away f...

An airplane down. even the turbulence would have to be so severe in order to break the airplane apart that it's unlikely you would ever get into it with weather radar on airplanes today. so i don't think we're looking at a case where the weather broke the airplane up. i think we're looking at a case where the weather did something else to the airplane possibly much like air france in the south atlantic. >> you talk about that air france flight. that was flight 447. that also was an airbus. airbus 330 which is bigger than this smaller airbus. and in that case that crash held several things. the...