World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-09-20

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-09-20
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] Sunday at 6 on Town Hall.

[0:07] On World News Tonight this Friday, that

[0:09] residue of explosives found on board

[0:12] TWWA 800. There is a possible

[0:14] explanation. The doctors in our Friday

[0:17] report about your health. The heart exam

[0:20] that every woman will want to know

[0:22] about.

[0:26] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:29] with Peter Jennings.

[0:30] Good evening. We begin tonight with TWWA

[0:32] Flight 800, which blew apart in the sky

[0:34] over the Atlantic Ocean off New York's

[0:36] Long Island 9 weeks ago. Now, the theory

[0:39] that a bomb may have caused the

[0:41] explosion already based on very scant

[0:44] evidence appears to have been struck a

[0:46] blow today. The FBI believes it can now

[0:49] explain where the residue of explosives

[0:51] found on a few pieces of the wreckage

[0:53] may have come from. Here is our chief

[0:56] investigative correspondent, Brian Ross.

[0:59] Since the crash in July, the FBI's

[1:01] working theory that the plane was

[1:02] brought down by a bomb was based largely

[1:04] on the discovery of trace elements of

[1:06] chemicals PETN and RDX found in plastic

[1:10] explosives. Now, that theory has been

[1:13] undermined with the discovery that one

[1:15] month before the crash, airport police

[1:17] in St. Lewis had purposely placed

[1:19] plastic explosives on the plane as part

[1:22] of a training exercise for bomb sniffing

[1:24] dogs and then removed the material after

[1:26] the exercise. The FBI learned all this

[1:29] only yesterday and it has put the

[1:31] investigation into a tail spin. If the

[1:34] trace elements of chemicals came from

[1:35] the explosives used in the training

[1:37] session, it would leave no evidence at

[1:39] all that a bomb brought down the TW