JAPAN/VARIOUS: BRITISH DUO COLIN BODILL AND JENNIFER MURRAY CONTINUE THEIR ROUND-THE-WORLD SOLO FLIGHTS

Record ID: 941250

  • Title: JAPAN/VARIOUS: BRITISH DUO COLIN BODILL AND JENNIFER MURRAY CONTINUE THEIR ROUND-THE-WORLD SOLO FLIGHTS
  • Date: 7th April 2000
  • Summary: BROOKLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM TO HAIL, SAUDI ARABIA (MAY 31-JUNE 9, 2000) ('NOW' HANDOUT/SCHEDULED BROADCAST NEWS BULLETINS ONLY/NO ACCESS INTERNET/SEE ABOVE FOR FURTHER RESTRICTIONS) 1. GV: VARIOUS OF ROBINSON R44 HELICOPTER CARRYING JENNIFER MURRAY TAKING OFF 0.05 2. TRACK: MICROLIGHT PLANE WITH DRIVEN BY COLIN BODILL TAKING OFF (2 SHOTS) 0.17 3. AV: VARIOUS OF FLIGHT OVER EUROPE (3 SHOTS) 0.29 4. AV: AERIAL OVER SEAS AROUND GREECE AND SIGHTING OF A WHALE SHARK (4 SHOTS) 0.45 5. GV: MURRAY'S HELICOPTER LANDING IN HAIL AIRPORT, SAUDI ARABIA (4 SHOTS) 1.04 TOKYO, JAPAN (JULY 3, 2000) (REUTERS) 6. GV: WIDE OF TOKYO PRESS CONFERENCE 1.09 7. CU: CLOSE UP OF AD FOR CHARITY ORGANISATION "OPERATION SMILE" 1.13 8. CU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) MURRAY SAYING: "I guess probably genes, from my parents. Someone questioned me about that and somebody made the reply and said 'she's a Mather' - that was my maiden name. Well, we've always had adventure holidays. I guess the drive, the motivation, the will to succeed, to go for a challenge, it's just all in there" 1.52 OVER THE DESERTS OF SAUDI ARABIA (AROUND JUNE 10-11, 2000) ('NOW' HANDOUT/SCHEDULED BROADCAST NEWS BULLETINS ONLY/NO ACCESS INTERNET/SEE ABOVE FOR FURTHER RESTRICTIONS) 9. AV: VARIOUS OF MURRAY'S HELICOPTER FLYING OVER THE DESERTS (4 SHOTS) 2.05 TOKYO, JAPAN (JULY 3, 2000) (REUTERS) 10. MV/CU: HEINZ RUST, A SUPPORT PILOT TRAVELLING WITH GROUP, MURRAY AND BODILL BEING PRESENTED WITH JAPANESE TALISMAN WARDING OFF THE DANGERS OF TRAVEL/CLOSE UP OF THE TALISMAN AND PAN OUT (2 SHOTS) 2.19 11. GV/PAN/CU/PAN: MAP OF ROUTE OF JENNIFER MURRAY AND COLIN BODILL/ CLOSE UP OF ROUTE THROUGH JAPAN (2 SHOTS) 2.40 12. MCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) MURRAY SAYING: "I am not a professional, I am not a world champion. I am just, I think, a reasonably competent pilot but you known I found a lot pretty tough as well. But we're here. We're a third of the way. And we're feeling pretty good about it. We'll feel even better when we get our Russian clearances" 2.58 13. CU: CLOSE OF LOCATOR WATCH THAT POSSIBLY SAVED COLIN BODILL'S LIFE WHEN FLYING OVER CHINA WHEN IT SIGNALLED TO THE CHINESE AIRFORCE THAT HE WAS IN DISTRESS 3.01 14. MCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) BODILL SAYING "Initially I was being circled by fighter jets, which is not a comfortable position to be in, and they were flying very close and caused a lot turbulence, which almost destroyed my aircraft. Whether the pilots realised this or not, I don't know. But then I dived down low so they couldn't circle tight anymore. And they started firing anti-aircraft missiles, flares, which was a bit disturbing because they do go off with quite a bang. The only thing I could do there was to land instantly which I was -- looking for somewhere to land but of course its all paddy fields, flooded fields.. so it was very difficult. I found a dried out prawn breeding field which I managed to get down on. And then the army came and arrested but after that dramatic business, relationships built up and over a period of three days I actually brought together the army, the airforce, the navy and secret service - the lot which never worked together in this way. So that was a first for them. In fact, they said I made two lots of history. The first to land a private aircraft in Chinese military airspace and still be alive and secondly bring in all these departments together. It got so friendly in the end, that they all came to see me off in the morning at six o'clock in the morning. Giving me big handshakes and hugs and begging me to come back and visit again. It did end up a good PR trip." 4.31 15. GV/CU: INTERNET SITE WITH UPDATED OF THE NOW CHALLENGE (4 SHOTS) 4.49 16. GV/PAN: MURRAY AND BODILL WALKING TO THE PICTURE OF CHARLES LINDBERG VISIT IN JAPAN 4.57 17. CU: CLOSE UP OF LINDBERG 5.01 18. MCU/PAN: PAN FROM MURRAY AND BODILL TO PICTURE 5.10 19. MCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) MURRAY SAYING: "I actually think for sheer spectacular stuff that Baluchistan coast in Pakistan is utterly amazing. But then also these Japanese islands are magic. Going over volcanoes, and then with the coral islands interspersed.. it doesn't get more beautiful than that" 5.32 COAST OF BALUCHISTAN, PAKISTAN (JUNE 14-15, 2000) ('NOW' HANDOUT/SCHEDULED BROADCAST NEWS BULLETINS ONLY/NO ACCESS INTERNET/SEE ABOVE FOR FURTHER RESTRICTIONS) 20. AV: VARIOUS OF FLYING OVER THE COAST OF BALUCHISTAN (4 SHOTS) 5.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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