WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: We begin with new clues in the investigation of Tuesday's Concorde crash. French investigators have released information from the plane's flight recorders. CNN's Jim Bittermann joins us now live from Charles De Gaulle Airport with details -- Jim.</s>JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, in their initial report, the crash investigators paint a picture of a desperate situation in which events quickly spiraled out of control of the Concorde pilot. Even before the Concorde took off from Charles De Gaulle Airport, the pilot was warned by airport traffic controllers that, in fact, flames were coming from the back of his aircraft. And along the runway, investigators found bits and piece of the plane, including parts of the plane's tires. Once the plane took to the air, the pilot radioed back saying that he had lost his No. 2 engine and was losing power quickly in his No. 1 engine and his landing gear would not go up. In his last radio transmission, the pilot, Christian Marty, radioed that he was going to try to make Le Bourget Airport, which is just five mile away. In fact, he could not make it. The plane went down about a mile outside of the Le Bourget fence. One of the clues that's come out is this business about the tire debris along the runway. It could point the investigation in a new direction toward an old problem, because back about 20 years ago a Concorde leaving Washington, D.C. suffered tire failure, and the tire failure sent parts of the tire rim through the wing and ruptured the fuel tanks. So investigators may want to take a look at that. But what they're really going to have to decide is what the first event was in this deadly sequence that took place here two days ago. This is Jim Bittermann reporting live from Paris.
Tire Damage Provides New Clues to Cause of Concorde Crash