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heart-racing images of the terrifying close call. american s engine caught fire. reporter: for the first time, we see the american airlines flight moving down the runway for takeoff, a burst of smoke, and then fire. do you see any smoke or fire? yeah, off the right wing. reporter: inside the plane, complete chaos and panic. we thought it was going to blow up, the plane. reporter: the pilot a takeoff. 161 passengers scrambling to find exits. passengers evacuating down emergency slides. some thrown to the ground by the engine s thrust. and our first look at the emergency response unfolding. firefighters dousing the plane. now we got it. right there. reporter: investigators looking at whether this fractured fan disc pierced the fuel line. resulting in that inferno. the ntsb investigation is still under way.
airplane going over 500 miles an hour? it s russian roulette. in the wake of the crash, the questions began immediately. how could this plane with its clean safety record suffer such a catastrophic failure in flight? right away there are some key clues. at the accident scene, a critical component called the fan disc is missing from the number two engine. it isn t found until three months later in a field 70 miles away in alta, iowa. that s where the plane experienced that initial violent jolt. these photos taken by a witness on the ground as united 232 was about to slam into the runway also provide investigators with critical information. you can see that there are holes in the horizontal stabilizer from the debris as
the fan disc had separated from the engine core and created shrapnel taking large chunks out of the horizontal stabilizer. in the second picture you can actually see the back side of the engine where the fan disc actually came out. by november 1990, 15 months after the crash, the ntsb pieces together what happened to united 232. over a farm in alta, iowa, the plane s fan disc imploded with calamitous results for the plane s hydraulics, the life blood of the jet. it sent shrapnel going in a multitude of directions, and it just happened that the shrapnel ended up cutting lines to all three systems. the statistical likelihood is extremely low, but in the case of 232, it actually happened. the titanium fan disc is determined to have a crack dating back to its fabrication.
the fan disc had separated from the engine core and created shrapnel taking large chunks out of the horizontal stabilizer. in the second picture you can actually see the back side of the engine where the fan disc actually came out. by november 1990, 15 months after the crash, the ntsb pieces together what happened to united 232. over a farm in alta, iowa, the fan s fan disc imploded with calamitous results for the plane s hydraulics, the life blood of the jet. it sent shrapnel going in a multitude of directions, and it just happened that the shrapnel ended up cutting lines to all three systems. the statistical likelihood is extremely low, but in the case of 232, it actually happened. the titanium fan disc is determined to have a crack dating back to its fabrication. every time the engine is used, the microscopic crack grows. the ntsb determines probable