fine because we was going too fast and the original descent was too big and i knew something was going to happen. >> at exactly 4:00 p.m., 44 minutes after the problem began, a violent impact. >> as the right wing hit the ground, the tail snapped off. the entire tail of the plane broke off just as if it were a toy and went rocketing down the runway at 250 miles per hour. i heard explosions and loud noises and flashes of light, and it had to be with the plane breaking apart. >> al could have kept telling us that it would have been rough, but i could never in my wildest dreams have imagined smashing into the earth the way we did. >> as jumbo jet careens out of control it breaks into pieces and fires erupt. it's hard to fathom anyone surviving the flames and the