PLANE CRASH INQUIRY FOCUSES ON ICING.(MAIN)

Byline: New York Times

ROSELAWN, Ind. The American Eagle flight that crashed in a bean field here on Monday, killing all 68 people abroad, took 36 seconds to fall out of the sky from an altitude of more than a mile and a quarter above the ground, first tipping 77 degrees to the right, recovering to 59 degrees, then flipping upside down and plunging at a 45-degree angle, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said on Thursday night.

With the cause of the rollover still not clear, the chairman, James E. Hall, also announced that American Eagle said on Thursday evening that it had ordered pilots flying the kind of plane that crashed, a …