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00:00Quote, a thorough safety review based on the recommendation of the manufacturer.
00:04Boeing, which merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997, did not immediately respond to an email from the Associated Press asking the reasoning behind the recommendation.
00:14Western Global Airlines is the only other U.S. cargo airline that flies MD-11s.
00:19The airline has 16 MD-11s in its fleet, but 12 of them have already been put in storage.
00:25Boeing announced in 1998 that it would be phasing out its MD-11 jetliner production with final deliveries due in 2000.
00:34The U.S. cargo plane built in 1991 was nearly airborne Tuesday when a bell sounded in the cockpit.
00:41And for the next 25 seconds, the bell rang and the pilots tried to control the aircraft as it barely lifted off the runway.
00:47Its left wing on fire and missing an engine and then hit the ground.
00:52National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman said yesterday the cockpit voice recorder captured the bell,
00:59which sounded about 37 seconds after the crew called for takeoff thrust.
01:05There are different types of alarms with varying meanings, he said, and investigators haven't determined why the bell rang,
01:11though they know the left wing was burning and the engine on that side had detached.
01:16Inman said it would be months before a transcript of the cockpit recording is made public as part of the investigation process.
01:24Footage from phones, cars, and security cameras has given investigators evidence of what happened from many different angles.
01:31Flight records suggest the UPS MD-11 that crashed underwent maintenance while...
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