Their Airbus A320 had just arrived from Atlanta at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida Monday night when a wingtip hit the tail of another plane.
Crews had to fight flames on the tail of the plane, search a smoke-filled building for occupants, and attend to car drivers trapped by falling rubble.
The tail of the plane is largely intact.
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Photographs show the violent force deformed the plane's fuselage, forced the tail wheel to deploy and likely resulted in the plane's trim tab -- a piece of the tail -- to fly off, the safety board said.
Ms Vulovic plummeted 33, 000 feet in the tail section of the plane to the snowy slopes of the Czech Republic below.
But on the morning of the election, Farage was involved in an air crash caused by the UKIP election banner the plane was towing getting caught in the plane's tail fin.
Meanwhile at Imperial College in London, Varnavas Serhides designed a plane that has no tail by taking advantage of advanced "fly-by-wire" controls and eliminating the need for a horizontal stabilizer and vertical tail, which also reduces drag.
Researchers at MIT, led by Dr Mark Drela and tasked by NASA, have come up with a double-wide design: instead of the traditional single cylindrical body, two partial cylinders are joined together with three engines at the back of the plane between the double tail.
Pilots say those stalls are particularly insidious because pilots cannot see the tail wings and because the recovery procedure is the opposite of a main-wing stall -- tail-wing stalls generally are overcome by raising the plane's nose.
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Configured for both corporate and personal use, the plane's interior turned more luxurious toward the tail.
Pilkington said the plane was flying low, with its nose up and tail down.
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The design, a more radical triangular wing-body shape, combines the plane's fuselage with the wings and has no tail.
The Spirit aircraft has resumed flying, while the US Airways plane is out of service for inspection and repair of its damaged tail cone, the airlines reported.
It explores the idea of a low-fuel-use plane that uses open-rotor engines mounted on what is called a Pi-tail in the stern of the ship.
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