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The pilots of doomed Flight were unaware the tail had snapped off as they desperately battled to control the plane before it made its death dive in Queens, chilling cockpit voice recordings released yesterday show. The recordings, released by the National Transportation Safety Board at the start of four days of public hearings in Washington, D.

But they dramatically detail the frantic final seconds of the American Airlines plane, which crashed in Belle Harbor shortly after takeoff from Kennedy Airport last Nov. It was bound for the Dominican Republic — and was the second-deadliest crash on U. The transcript of the last words between Capt.

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Edward States and co-pilot Sten Molin shows them frantically struggling to control the Airbus as it encountered the fierce wake turbulence of a five miles ahead of it. During the emotional hearing, the NTSB said it believes violent rudder movements snapped the tail, sending the doomed plane on its death descent. The hearing also featured two videotapes, one of which showed the tragic plane taking off and, later, the smoke billowing from the crash in the distance.

But dozens of distraught relatives, mostly Dominicans from The Bronx, made the trip to hear the first official information about the crash probe. With Post Wire Services. Transcript of the last words between Flight Capt. A carbon fiber skeleton strengthens the tail and anchors it to the fuselage. The tail is designed to flex from side to side, but whether lateral force could snap it off is unclear.

If the tail snapped off in a turn — when the force exerted on it is greatest — the aircraft would be critically imbalanced. At low altitude, the pilot would have almost no time to compensate.