the last thing he can do is call the control tower because he has to take immediate action. we have lots of reports about how the nose was high, the tail way down and the tail strikes short of the runway. it is interesting when you look at the charred fuselage there it is basically intact if we have a lot of people who survived this crash, it is going to be due to that. the fuselage held together. and then that blackened area that you see there indicates the fire. but that's something that would have happened after the impact. when the fuel catches fire. and evidently, some minutes between the time that the plane came to rest and the doors were open and the chutes were out. some time had passed before the