World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-11-02

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-11-02
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] on the [music]

[0:01] >> KATU's weather on the hour is brought to

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[0:16] On World News Tonight this Tuesday, the

[0:18] Egypt Air Investigation. Do they have a

[0:21] clue already? Another gunman goes after

[0:24] his fellow workers. Seven people are

[0:26] dead in Hawaii. Getting behind at school

[0:29] and never catching up. We'll take a

[0:30] closer look at a glaring problem in

[0:32] American education. And trying to make a

[0:35] difference in Oakland, California. From

[0:37] Moon Beam to Mayor.

[0:46] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:49] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:52] Peter Jennings.

[0:53] >> Good evening. We begin with Egypt

[0:55] Airflight 990. Tonight, investigators

[0:57] are looking closely at what may have

[0:58] been a serious, even catastrophic

[1:01] problem with one of its engines,

[1:03] specifically with what's called a thrust

[1:05] reverser. An internal part of an engine

[1:08] which causes a jet's power or thrust to

[1:10] suddenly reverse. It's what you feel in

[1:12] here when a pilot slows the plane down

[1:14] right after landing on the ground. It is

[1:16] a fairly dramatic moment. And if the

[1:18] thrust reverser were to suddenly

[1:20] inadvertently, mistakenly be deployed or

[1:22] activated in mid-flight, a big plane

[1:25] could go suddenly out of control. Here's

[1:28] ABC's Lisa Stark.

[1:30] >> ABC News has learned that the Egyptian

[1:32] airplane had some sort of a problem with

[1:34] one of its thrust reversers on a

[1:36] previous trip. Even though thrust

[1:39] reversers are usually used to slow the

[1:41] plane on landing, they are not required

[1:43] equipment. And so the airline, as is

[1:46] allowed, deactivate