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>> once terrorism is eliminated as the cause, investigators focus on why the tail broke off. it takes more than two years before the ntsb findings are released. according to the report the cause of the crash is the separation of the tail or vertical stabilizer due to the first officer's excessive use of the rudder pedal. >> the entire fin which is the vertical stabilizer as well as the rudder separated from the fuselage and the airplane at that time became no longer controllable. >> normally pilots only use controls and flight spoilers to roll the airplane to wings level. these are panels loca...

Fuselage. so at that moment there was pandemonium. >> the crew calmly tells air traffic control that the engines have failed. they are quickly routed back to jfk, but it is too late. when the boeing 707 crashes into a hillside in oyster bay, the cockpit breaks off, killing the pilots and flight engineer. they are only 16 miles from the airport. >> come on, somebody get the back here. >> miraculously, 85 of 158 people on board survive impact. they are pinned beneath the wreckage, but there's no fire. >> clearly the plane had been filled with fuel, they would have been all incinerated. >> the nt...