UNITED STATES: TWO BOEING 727 JETS CRASHED WITHIN TWELVE HOURS KILLING 96 PEOPLE.

Record ID: 1063950

  • Title: UNITED STATES: TWO BOEING 727 JETS CRASHED WITHIN TWELVE HOURS KILLING 96 PEOPLE.
  • Date: 3rd December 1974
  • Summary: 1. SV Mount weather rescue party carrying away body (2 shots) 0.13 2. GV PAN Area of crash 0.26 3. CU FBI agents searching the ruins 0.30 4. CU Flight recorder 0.38 5. GV Scene of second crash and debris (6 shots) 1.05 7. CU Dan Sayer speaking 1.18 REPORTER EEE MCCARTHY: "By morning the fierce winds and rain of the night before had turned to a heavy wet snow and the search for the remains of the victims was resumed. The jetliner sheered off the top of these trees for about one hundred yards, then apparently rammed into a large outcropping of rock, slipped over and exploded. What was left of the fuselage was in bits and pieces. FBI agents helped volunteer firemen comb the debris and catalogue what was found. A blanket of snow hampered its search for the flight cockpit recorder, but at midmorning this and the data recorder were found intact." REPORTER ANDY MCMILLAN: "The plane disappeared form radar screens and slammed into this rocky gully at a sharp angle -- snapping off trees and shredding wings and fuselage almost beyond recognition. Flight engineer James Cox of Seattle died with a case of charts and the plane's logbook clutched in his arms. First on the scene, Inspector Dan Sayer o the National Transportation Safety Board. SAYER:"We were here almost to--two a.m." MCMILLAN: "What was the weather like then?" SAYER: "Rotten. Out job right now is to perform certain chores which pretty much blanket the entire case, including the history of flight and we'll have an A.T.C. group which will listen to the tape form the Control Centre and form the tower and the approach control. And the groups will handle the structures and the systems and the power plants. And when they begin to gather facts, then we put these facts together. Then we know where we stand. Right now we wouldn' speculate on anything." MCMILLAN: "That flight recorder was recovered?" SAYER: "Yes." MCMILLAN: "Was it in a condition to provide some useful information?" SAYER: "It looks to be in pretty good shape. It's on its way to Washington right now." Initials ET/2242 ET/2323 TELERECORDING This film includes tow commentaries which are for use. Transcriptions of the commentaries, by NBC Reporter Lee McCarthy and TVN Reporter Andy McMillan, are given below: LEE MCCARTHY (NBC) AND ANDY MCMILLAND (TVN) Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th December 1974 12:00
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  • Location: VIRGINIA AND NEW YORK STATE: U.S.A.
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  • Country: USA
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