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Nov 15, 2001 | 3:04 pm

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The pilots of American Airlines Flight 587, in trying to right the doomed plane in the minutes after takeoff, were probably unaware its tail fin had broken off, a federal investigator said Thursday.

"They don't know what's going on," George Black Jr., a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said in an interview with The Associated Press. "They don't have a rearview mirror. They have no idea they've lost a tail."

Black said investigators "almost certainly think" the tail was the first part to break off the plane.

http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/in...sh-newyork-syr

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