IVORY COAST: ANGUISHED RELATIVES ARRIVE TO LOOK FOR THEIR LOVED ONES AFTER KENYAN AIRWAYS AIRBUS CRASH

Record ID: 980193

  • Title: IVORY COAST: ANGUISHED RELATIVES ARRIVE TO LOOK FOR THEIR LOVED ONES AFTER KENYAN AIRWAYS AIRBUS CRASH
  • Date: 2nd February 2000
  • Summary: ATLANTIC OCEAN, ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST (FEBRUARY 2, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. LV: MILITARY RESCUE VESSEL PLIES OFF COAST OF ABIDJAN 0.07 2. LV/SLV: MILITARY DIVERS PREPARE TO START WORK LOOKING FOR THE PLANE FUSELAGE (2 SHOTS) 0.22 3. TV: TWO DIVERS SUBMERGE (2 SHOTS) 0.53 4. SLV: WRECKAGE FROM THE PLANE ON THE QUAYSIDE (2 SHOTS) 1.00 5. LV: DOLPHINS FROLIC IN THE WATER NEAR THE SPOT WHERE THE PLANE WENT DOWN 1.06 6. SV: NIGERIAN EMMANUEL MADU RECOVERING IN ABIDJAN HOSPITAL 1.15 7. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) MADU SAYING: "And then my fear, it wasn't after two minutes (after takeoff). The whole plane crumbled. I wouldn't call it an explosion. It may call it implosion." 1.25 8. WIDE: NEWS CONFERENCE BY AVIATION AUTHORITIES FROM IVORY COAST 1.31 9. SV: SOUNDBITE (French) JEAN ABOUNOUAN, HEAD OF IVORY COAST CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY, SAYING: "There is even more sophisticated equipment which has arrived from France as a result of our technical cooperation agreement. And even as we speak they are at the site and we have high hopes that they will find the black box." 1.45 10. CUTAWAY: NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS 1.49 11. GV: KENYA AIRWAYS PLANE CARRYING RELATIVES STANDS AT ABIDJAN AIRPORT 1.54 12. LV: RELATIVES LEAVE PLANE AND WALK ACROSS TARMAC (2 SHOTS) 2.08 13. SV: KENYA AIRWAYS OFFICIALS BECKONS FAMILY IN THE AIRPORT (3 SHOTS) 2.18 14. SV: KENYA AIRWAYS OFFICIALS TALKING TO EACH OTHER 2.22 15. VARIOUS: MORE RELATIVES ARRIVING 2.28 16. SV: KENYAN WASSIM AZFYA, FIANCE OF A FLIGHT ATTENDANT ON THE DOWNED PLANE 2.31 17. SV: SOUNDBITE(English), AZYFA "I didn't believe it and I still don't believe it. It can't be. I'm sure she is somewhere alive. She must be among the survivors." 2.42 18. SV: OFFICIALS DIRECTING RELATIVES AT THE CONCOURSE 2.51 19. SV: RELATIVES LOOK AT NEWSPAPER HEADLINES 2.59 20. SV: KENYAN CHRIS NJUGUNA, WHO LOST A BROTHER ON THE FLIGHT. THE BROTHER WAS THE KENYA AIRWAYS STATION MANAGER IN LAGOS SOUNDBITE (English) CHRIS NJUGUNA: "I didn't believe it. I said that's impossible. In fact I refused to go for the press conference. Because said one, he's not in Abidjan. I didn't know about the change of flight. And even now I don't believe it. That's why I am here to confirm what everybody else is telling me." 3.19 21. CU: DISTRESSED WOMAN 3.25 22. SV: KENYAN TRAUMA COUNSELLOR MARY KAREMBU (2 SHOTS) 3.33 23. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) KAREMBU "It is the first ever Kenyan aircraft to crash and therefore it took us by surprise." 3.42 24. SLV: RELATIVES LEAVING THE CONCOURSE 3.46 25. LAS: RELATIVES BOARDING BUS 3.56 26. SV: THE BUS DEPARTS 4.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA9AZ3DP4SJDEJ4ZR2IQ10N3QAJ
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