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Have been deployed. >> wow! they have a lot of fire retardant on the airplane. they must have responded fairly fast but it look like the top of the aircraft has fire damage and the tail is gone. that is amazing to me. you see that the right wing is also, wing tip knocked off. so it took a violent hit right there. >> gregg: what appears adjacent to plane a triage area where medical personnel together with firefighters seem to have gathered and maybe treating some people still at that location. taking others to area hospitals. there are several nearby not only in redwood city but in san francisc...

>> there was no noise at all. and the plane, it went left wing tip right into the ground. it had a napalm effect. everything in its path was blown into a sheet of flame. >> initially, ntsb investigators are baffled, what could have caused a structural failure of this magnitude? >> this is all that's left of american airlines flight 191, as far as it got on its way to los angeles. >> they sift through the wreckage and look to the plane's two flight recorders for clues. within days of the crash, they begin to zero in on a part called the pylon. it has a 13-inch crack they believe was caused by f...

This on the belly of the airplane, which is very possible, i'm sorry, toss it back? >> yeah, trace, we'll take it back to new york for one minute here and tell our viewers, listen we're going on a seven second delay like we do in these situations often, lest anything happen, we certainly hope it does not. bear with us, as we put the feed on seven second delay. all right. and the question is, trace. what kind of -- where is the fuel in this lear jet? our own jon scott is a pilot, just e-mailed me, suggesting he believes that the winning tip fuel tanks which may not be a good thing. >> reporter:...

The air force plane flying that at first we thought was the plane. those are wing tip fuel tanks. >> you can see them at the end. and does that change your assessment of the dangerous situation here, if it's integral inside the wing as opposed to the bubble on the end of it? >> well, it's probably, it's probably better, i know that in, i've never had wing tip fuel tanks, but some of them are designed essentially to snap off in case of impact and they have valves on them that close so that the fuel doesn't come spraying out. >> it's incredible when you think of the safety mechanisms on board th...