File:American Airlines Flight 587 Accident animation.ogv

English: This three-dimensional animated accident reconstruction shows most of the flight for American

Airlines Flight 587, which crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK International airport on November 12, 2001. The reconstruction exhibits information selected from the Flight Data Recorder, excerpts from the Cockpit Voice Recorder transcript, recorded radar data and aircraft performance data. This reconstruction does not depict the weather or visibility conditions at the time of the accident. The animation shows a three-dimensional model of the airplane and its motion in the upper portion of the view. Selected comments from the Cockpit Voice Recorder transcript or other annotations are superimposed as text in this area at the time they occurred. The lower portion of the view depicts a set of instruments and indicators, which display selected

parameters from the flight data recorder.