31.   Lucovnik said the explosion in the left engine occurred shortly after the aircraft began gathering speed for takeoff.

32.   Shortly after takeoff the pilot reported a fire in the left engine, Axel Raab of the German Flight Security office said.

33.   The badly burned fuselage was mostly intact, but the plane lost its left engine and tail.

34.   The pilot of the twin-engine Avro propeller aircraft reported the left engine had caught fire before it crashed.

35.   The pilot of the two-engined Avro propeller aircraft had radioed that the left engine caught fire.

36.   The NTSB said examinations of the right engine vacuum pump and pieces of the left engine did not produce any conclusive information.

37.   The pilots were preparing for takeoff when they saw the left engine ablaze and shut it down, Oban said.

38.   The pilot of the four-engine Avro propeller aircraft reported that the left engine had caught fire.

39.   Wallace said he saw the far left engine catch fire as the plane went down the runway.

40.   A pilot saw fire near the left engine during the flight, but it had disappeared by the time the plane made the emergency landing, the officials said.