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Critical phase of the flight. colombian investigators also cite the crews's fail your to retract the speed brakes which prevented it from gaining enough altitude during the escape maneuver. >> out of this accident came a design change that if you called for maximum power for an escape maneuver, that if the speed brakes were deployed, that they would automatically retract. >> american airlines agrees pilot error led to the crash but is disappointed investigators did not also fault flight management computers and the lack of a radar approach. the ntsb releases its own recommendations a month lat...

Authority releases its final report in september of 1996 and finds probable cause was primarily pilot error. the flight crew didn't adequately plan and execute their approach and lacked situational awareness. and they didn't revert to basic radio navigation when computer navigation became confusing in a critical phase of the flight. colombian investigators also cite the crews's fail your to retract the speed brakes which prohibited it from gang enough altitude during the escape maneuver. >> out of this accident came a design change that if you called for maximum power for an escape maneuver, t...

Even read it. >> but how did this flight end up in such a dire situation? after failing to land at st. martin's juliana airport in bad weather, captain dewitt decides to divert. first to the nearby island of st. thomas. then to st. croix when he finds out it's even closer. but as the plane is climbing away from the airport in a torrential downpour, there's a problem. >> my navigator said to me, balsey, my god, look at the fuel gauges. >> because of the wind, the turbulence and the conditions, the airplane was rocking back and forth as it was climbing. the fuel totalizer was spinning. >> i told...

May 2ened, is the 70, bad weatherer, low visibility and lack of fuel. the captain has no choice but to ditch his plane in the caribbean sea. no footage exists of this incident, but our dramatic animation shows what the plane might have looked like as i slammed into those turbulent waters. here's how the pilot describes what it felt like to be in the cockpit at that life and death moment. >> my first contact with the water was quite smooth and it wasn't too long after that that the rest of the airplane was starting to make contact with the water, ebb an extreme amount of vibration in the cockpi...

Vibrating so that i couldn't even read it. >> but how did this flight end up in such a dire situation? after failing to land at st. martin's airport in bad weather, captain dewitt decides to divert first to the near by island of st. thomas and then to st. croix when he finds out it's even closer. but as the plane is climbing away from the airport in a torrential downpour, there's a problem. >> my navigator said to me, my god, look at the fuel gauges. >> because of the wind and the turbulence and conditions, the airplane was rocking back and forth as it was climbing. it was spinning. >> i told ...