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Unlike many recent airliner crashes--most notably the crash of TWA Flight 800 four years ago last month--investigators seem likely to find a cause for the Concorde crash quickly. Both black boxes were recovered, and the wealth of witnesses should make it easy to reconstruct the plane's final...
1 Replaced Thrust Reverser A spare part is installed in Engine No. 2 causing investigators initially to blame the crash on faulty repairs
3 An Engine Catches Fire Witnesses reported seeing flames shooting from Engine No. 2, under the left wing, just before takeoff
4 A Second Engine Fails Engine No. 2 fails, and No. 1 loses power intermittently, dooming attempts to stabilize the plane
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