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Denver Plane Crash

Jet veers off runway, catches fire

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• Dec. 22: The wreckage of a Continental Airlines jetliner rests in a ravine between runways in Denver.
• Dec. 22: Land gear sits near a service road along the path follows by a Continental Airlines jetliner in Denver.
• Dec. 22: Bill English, the investigator in charge from the National Transportation Safety Board, talks about the path followed to where the wreckage of Continental Airlines landed in a ravine during a press tour in Denver.
• Dec. 22, 2008: The cockpit voice recorder, left, and the flight data recorder from Continental flight 1404 airplane accident on display at the National Transportation Safety Board headquarters in Washington.
• Dec. 21, 2008: A Continental Airlines jet is shown after it crashed on takeoff in Denver, Colo.
• Dec. 21, 2008: Continental Airlines officials depart a press conference at the airline's downtown headquarters in Houston.
• Dec. 21, 2008: Larry Kellner, Continental Airlines' chairman and chief executive officer, addresses the media during an early morning press conference at the airline's downtown headquarters in Houston.
• Dec. 20, 2008: An emergency vehicle leaves the runway at Denver International Airport where a Continental Airlines flight veered off a runway into a ravine and caught fire.
• Dec. 20, 2008: Kim Day, aviation manager for the city of Denver, talks about Continental Airlines flight 1404 that skidded off a runway at Denver International Airport.
• Dec. 20, 2008: A man idenfitfied by Aurora Medical Center South Medical Center as a member of the Continental Airlines 1404 flight crew leaves the center in Aurora, Colo.
• Dec. 20, 2008: Dee Martinez, left, spokesperson for Denver Health Sciences and Lt. Scott Bookman with the Denver Health Paramedics address the media in Denver, Colo.