New DVD: deleted scenes restored?

I got the DVD today, and it looks as if it's the same as the AMC broadcast. I'd mentioned in an earlier message on these threads that I, too, thought there were some missing scenes. Most, as best as my old memory can recall, seem to be at the end as the plane is coming in to the airport. Something's missing, something that added suspense to those scenes. So, tonight I watched the ending as the plane came in for its landing, passing over the lighted runway markers. The plane sets down in the dark, there's a cut to the sleeping little boy, there is no music. So, I pulled out my soundtrack recording and there is about 35 to 40 seconds of music from the original soundtrack music missing from the DVD version, and I'm assuming the movie scenes that music covered. From the music and chorus as the plane sets down, the music builds in volume and orchestra to a finale. After that there's the music as the passengers disembark. There is something missing there. Some of the extras on the DVD said there was missing footage, but that it had been recovered. Apparently, not all was recovered. Maybe it's been so long since this film has been seen, the people restoring it had no idea what they were missing. I think it's great to finally have a copy of the film, but with the AMC broadcast and the DVD version, I still feel it's "missing" something, just can't bring the memories out after all those years as to exactly what, but whatever it was it was important enough to the film, to me at least, to be noticeable.

The ending of this version is almost anti-climactic with whatever it is not there. Or, it could be just my memory fading. I'd still like to know what those 35 seconds of missing soundtrack score covered, before the scenes where the passengers leave the plane.

Also, the chorus singing the theme song is not on the DVD, it's said in one of the commentaries that the chorus was added after release for a few days of viewing so Tiomkin and Washington could qualify for the Best Song Oscar. The lyrics the chorus sings are not the same as those that came with the popular version of the song when it made the hit parade. Those were romantic, the original film chorus was more a tribute to those flying planes.

My feeble old (58-year-old) memory has a distinct recollection that as the plane was (dramatically) making its final approach for landing, it did actually "clip" that 690-foot San Francisco radio broadcasting antenna that John Wayne referred to. Does anyone else recall that as the deleted scene???

Also being a 58-year-old who was very much into the movie music of that (long-ago) day, I always remembered the theme song as just instrumental -- without lyrics.