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New York City police officers Danny Hogg, left, and Peter Connolly look over the engine from American Airlines flight 587 that landed in a gas station in the Belle Harbor neighborhood of New York in this Nov. 14, 2001 photo. If the pilot had taken his foot off the rudder pedal, the jetliner's tail wouldn't have broken off, the plane wouldn't have plunged into a New York City neighborhood and 265 people wouldn't have died. On those details, the investigators agree. But the pilot didn't know he was putting more pressure on the tail than it could bear. Why he didn't _ and who's to blame for that _ is the subject of a bitter fight between Airbus Industrie, which made the plane, and American Airlines, which trained the pilot. That dispute is expected to play out in public Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 when the NTSB meets to discuss its findings. (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)