begun to get warnings. they have been told by control tower that they have fire. so they go hmm, we have a fire. >> desperately trying to get enough speed to get airborne they try to pull up the landing gear. >> it wouldn't come up because the left side was damaged by the fire. >> they are not in a position to continue level flight, and at that point they realized they needed on the ground at the closest airport. it wasn't a good choice but it the best choice that they had. >> you have a fire and it's not just contained to the engine it's now being em compassed -- >> it was a plane trying to survive. >> seconds later, engine number one fail. the concorde's chances of making the airfield rapidly diminish. >> you have two engines trying to dot work of four. an airplane wallowing in the air because it hasn't built up sufficient flying speed and an airplane on fire. >> the plane became totally unflyable, trying to reduce the power on the two living engines. >> as bystanders watch in horror, the plane banks to the left and crashes into a small