CBS Evening News - 1994-12-26
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[0:05] Explosions in the cockpit.
[0:08] Gunfire in the aisles.
[0:11] As French commandos storm a hijacked
[0:13] plane and kill the gunmen.
[0:17] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:22] with Dan Rather and Connie Chung.
[0:26] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. Three
[0:28] days of terror ended today for more than
[0:30] 170 people on an Air France plane.
[0:33] They'd been taken hostage by Muslim
[0:35] radicals in Algiers, but today they were
[0:38] saved in a daring assault by French
[0:40] troops at the airport in Marseille. The
[0:42] four hijackers were killed. Earlier, the
[0:44] hijackers had killed three passengers.
[0:47] Correspondent Cindy Cannard is on the
[0:48] scene in Marseille.
[0:52] French officials ordered the commando
[0:54] unit assault on the hijacked jetliner as
[0:56] the hostage drama was nearing the end of
[0:58] a third day. Special forces moved in to
[1:01] storm the plane after the hijackers had
[1:03] fired shots at the command post set up
[1:06] in the airport control tower.
[1:10] Seconds into the assault, the hijackers
[1:12] forced the co-pilot out of the cockpit
[1:14] window, sending him smashing into the
[1:16] ground and limping away for help.
[1:21] What was happening inside the hijacked
[1:23] plane was described by one commando as
[1:25] hell.
[1:26] A few passengers managed to get out by
[1:28] airline escape chutes. Others still
[1:31] aboard watched as the hijackers
[1:33] barricaded themselves in the cockpit,
[1:35] opening the door periodically to lob out
[1:37] grenades. One hit a group of commandos
[1:40] seriously injuring nine of them,
[1:42] including one who lost his hand.
[1:46] Outside, police used their own
[1:48] explosives to try and force the
[1:49] hijackers out. They were young Islamic
[1:52] fundamentalists, th