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The fire department was there quickly or there wasn't a lot of fuel on board. >> tom, you know, again, you have covered transportation for a long time. you have been on a lot of planes, done stories about a lot of planes. when you look at the image to the left and you see the fuselage, while obviously, it was engolfed at some point and they are dousing it with whatever they use to put the flames out, the tail is off. it looks like there's been substantial damage. what does that tell you? the fact that the tail is off the boeing 777, what does that tell you? >> you know, it looks as if -- it lo...

>> rick: as we take a look at the debris. you saw just a minute ago that colorful piece of debris right at the tip of the runway that we believe to be a part of the tail that simply broke away. there have been some eyewitness reports it was the back of the plane that hit the runway first, slamming down. that is where the tail came off. then you can imagine, you can see the distance there that the plane actually traveled, skidded before coming to a stop. it's hard to know exactly how long that is. that is couple hundred yards that the plane skidded and you can only imagine the fear of the peopl...