World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-03-03

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-03-03
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[0:01] A United Airlines 737 crashes in

[0:04] Colorado. All 25 aboard are killed and

[0:08] Iraq's defeated generals accept

[0:10] America's terms for ending the Gulf War.

[0:15] >> From ABC News World News Sunday, here's

[0:19] Carol Simpson.

[0:20] >> Iraq formally accepted President Bush's

[0:22] terms for peace today. And tonight,

[0:25] Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations

[0:27] says he believes Iraq has already

[0:29] released 10 prisoners of war as a

[0:31] gesture of goodwill. Six of them

[0:33] Americans and one of the Americans a

[0:35] woman. We'll have a complete report on

[0:37] events in the Gulf today in a moment.

[0:39] But first, the search for clues in the

[0:42] crash of United Airlines Flight 585,

[0:45] which took off from Peoria, Illinois

[0:47] this morning, stopped in Molen, then in

[0:50] Denver, but never made it to its final

[0:52] destination, Colorado Springs. ABC's Tom

[0:55] Foreman is in Widefield, Colorado, where

[0:58] the plane went down.

[1:01] >> I was in my house on the time it

[1:03] happened. and I heard a airplane fly

[1:05] over and then uh and then we heard this

[1:08] boom.

[1:09] >> The impact of the United 737 shook the

[1:12] tiny town of Widefield, sending flames

[1:14] roaring through the quiet of a Sunday

[1:16] morning. A home video camera captured

[1:18] those first few moments after the plane

[1:20] crashed in a park with homes on both

[1:23] sides.

[1:24] >> It looked like it was hanging a hard

[1:25] right and it just turned and it went

[1:28] straight down nose first and then I felt

[1:30] the boom and I took off running to get

[1:32] help. There was no flames in the sky.

[1:34] When I saw it when it came over, it

[1:35] looked didn't pay any attention to it

[1:38] anymore than any other plane that came