In Depth: Will Released Tapes From Air Traffic Control About American Airlines Flight 587 Help Ans
NBC ID: ARHIZQVE2P | Production Unit: Nightly News | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: NY-NN-20020220-0001 | Air Date(s): 02/20/2002 | Event Date(s): 02/20/2002Transcript
Event Date(s): 02/20/2002 | Event Location(s): New York City, New York;Queens, New York;Belle Harbor, New York; | Description: The crash of American Airlines Flight 587 just outside of Kennedy Airport in New York City, New York last November is still an unsolved mystery. Officials have released tapes of the air traffic control conversations with the doomed plane and also with other pilots who saw what happened. It's unknown if the tapes will help answer lingering questions. EXT DAY QUEENS, NEW YORK MS: Low shot of Air Traffic control tower at JFK International Airport. GFX: Superimposed American Airlines plane. MS: The superimposed plane becomes regular footage of the plane taxiing down runway. GFX: Background footage of view from a plane's cockpit. GFX: American Airlines logo with "Flight 587" GFX SUPERS HEARD IN VO: Air traffic control warning to Flight 587 about rough heavy air. INT IN A PLANE BAD BLURRY IMAGES 2 MS: Rear shot of pilots in cockpit. MS: Pilot's hand (faces unseen) on controls. MS: Point of view shot of moving up aisle past seated passengers. GFX: Flight 587 moving down runway and taking off. GFX SUPER:"9:14 a.m." GFX: Background footage of view from a plane's cockpit. GFX: American Airlines logo with "Flight 587" GFX SUPERS HEARD IN VO: "American 587 heavy, so long" GFX: Flight 587 in flight. GFX SUPER:"9:15 a.m." GFX: Background of cockpit control panels. GFX: American Airlines logo with "Flight 587" GFX SUPERS HEARD IN VO: Conversation between the control tower and Flight 587 about direction. GFX: Flight 587 twisting in rough air. GFX: The rough air. GFX: Flight 587's rudder and tail fin break off and Flight 587 falls from the sky. GFX: Background footage of view from a plane's cockpit. GFX: American Airlines logo with "Flight 587" GFX SUPERS HEARD IN VO: "Tower, look out to the south. There's an aircraft crashing." INT IN A PLANE BAD BLURRY IMAGE MS: Rear shot of pilot in cockpit. GFX: Background footage of view from a plane's cockpit. GFX: American Airlines logo with "Flight 587" GFX SUPERS HEARD IN VO: Unidentified jet telling control tower "Affirm. A fireball." EXT DAY BELLE HARBOR, QUEENS, NEW YORK 2001-11-12 MS: Panning shot of firemen and others on street near thick black smoke and heavy flames. MS: Policeman walks past burning debris. GFX: Background footage of view from a plane's cockpit. GFX: American Airlines logo with "Flight 587" GFX SUPERS HEARD IN VO: Various communications between pilots of other planes and air traffic control about the huge fire and smoke. EXT DAY BELLE HARBOR 2001-11-12 MS: People near burning debris. GFX: Burning debris. GFX: Moving reel to reel machine. GFX: American Airlines logo with "Flight 587" GFX SUPER HEARD IN VO: (from control tower)"American 587 heavy, New York?." EXT NIGHT NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK MS: NBC's Pat Dawson signs off live on-camera.