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WABC Radio is reporting that there was a small plane in the area and that the witnesses report that one engine was on fire or that the plane had actually lost an engine.

Remember the DC-10 in O'Hare about 20 years ago. It lost an engine and lost control because of the resulting wieght imbalance between the wings.

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Eyewitness on WABC 770 Radio now. Reports that plane looked like the nose was twisted and saw no flames as the plane went down. Large fireball on ground. Did not explode in the air. Report by a man called Issac.

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Actually, after initial shock, thoughts: If it were a collision with a smaller plane there ought to be TWO crash sites. One large one with the 767 and another smaller one for the small plane unless it wasn't destroyed which is hard to imagine. So there ought to be TWO impact sites yes?

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CNN reports 4 houses on fire. That was a steep angle approach. If an engine was out that could explain it. It might have listed over with wings vertical and cartwheeled into the ground. Maybe.

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Remember the DC-10 in O'Hare about 20 years ago. It lost an engine and lost control because of the resulting wieght imbalance between the wings.

The roll of the aircraft was due to the loss of hydraulics when the engine separated, causing retraction of the slats on one wing but not the other, thus the uncontrolled roll. Had the slats not retracted the pilot should have been able to maintain controlled flight of the aircraft.