UNITED STATES: ON EVE OF FINAL REPORT INTO TWA FLIGHT 800 CRASH IN 1996 VICTIMS FAMILIES ACCUSE NTSB AND THE FBI OF ATTEMPTING A COVER-UP
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UNITED STATES: ON EVE OF FINAL REPORT INTO TWA FLIGHT 800 CRASH IN 1996 VICTIMS FAMILIES ACCUSE NTSB AND THE FBI OF ATTEMPTING A COVER-UP
- Title: UNITED STATES: ON EVE OF FINAL REPORT INTO TWA FLIGHT 800 CRASH IN 1996 VICTIMS FAMILIES ACCUSE NTSB AND THE FBI OF ATTEMPTING A COVER-UP
- Date: 21st August 2000
- Summary: WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (AUGUST 21, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF THE NEWS CONFERENCE 0.08 2. SV: CUT TO MEMBERS OF FLIGHT 800 INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS (FIOR) 0.13 3. ZOOM IN: (SOUNDBITE) ( English) MICHELE BRISTOFF, FATHER OF A TWA 800 VICTIM, SAYING, "I will explain to you that I am here today because I have been invited by the NTSB for tomorrow and the next day for conference these people call a sunshine meeting. You can not imagine what that does to the families, Sunshine Meeting, they will try to explain to us how our family died in the crash." 0.43 4. SV: CUTAWAY TO PHOTOGRAPHER 0.47 5. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) ( English) MICHELE BRISTOFF, FATHER OF A TWA 800 VICTIM, SAYING, "the first day, or actually the second day, when I was in Romadainne, it was something not really evident, something not really explained to us and as long as the people from NTSB will not give me the evidence of what they will say tomorrow, I will be firm in my conviction that what destroyed this plane was an external event." 1.16 6. CUTAWAY TO PRESS 1.19 7. ZOOM IN: (SOUNDBITE) (English) GRAHAM SEFTON SAYING, "The greatest mystery about flight 800 we discovered fairly.. about two years ago was the investigation itself. The NTSB has started using the word mystery and with good cause because it is a manufactured mystery, they have done a good job in obscuring a lot of the details that should have been fairly clear." 1.45 8. CU: ANIMATION OF AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT 1.55 9. CU: OF SCREEN SHOWING THE NTSB SIMULATION ERROR 1.58 10. CU: COMPUTER SCREEN SHOWING RADAR DATA 2.03 11. CU: DETAILS OF SCREEN OF EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT 2.07 12. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) ( English) FORMER PILOT AND AVIATION INVESTIGATOR RICHARD RUSSEL SAYING, "It looks like it is paralleling TWA 800 and it was identified by a controller, initially, as a missile, I did not make that determination I am just reporting what was given. (REPORTER ASKS IF THE OBJECT REFERRED TO HAD AN IDENTIFYING CODE ON RADAR) RUSSEL ANSWERS, "Only if it had a transponder, this did not have a transponder and neither do missiles, generally speaking." 2.39 13. WIDE OF THE PRESSER 2.44 14. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) GRAHAM SEFTON SAYING, "As researchers we are saying that there are alot of unusual aspects to this investigation and it is not complete by any means and closure at this point is absurd." 2.56 LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE) (POOL - ACCESS ALL) 15. ZOOM IN: INVESTIGATORS ANALYSING THE PLANE DEBRIS 3.06 16. MV: FAMILY MEMBERS GRIEVING ON THE SHORE 3.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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