World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-10-26

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-10-26
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[0:00] They are dangerously fat. We'll take a

[0:03] closer look. A Wall Street

[0:05] >> [music]

[0:05] >> icon gets a major makeover. A shakeup

[0:07] for the world's most important stock

[0:09] index.

[0:12] And losing the last of the trees that

[0:15] [music] helped launch a revolution.

[0:22] [music]

[0:24] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:27] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:29] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,

[0:32] Kevin Newman. Good evening. There are so

[0:34] many questions tonight over what

[0:36] happened to that Lear jet that crashed

[0:38] carrying golfer Payne Stewart and we've

[0:40] now confirmed five other people. It flew

[0:43] over the middle of the country yesterday

[0:45] with apparently no one in control. And

[0:47] what happened to the crew is the main

[0:49] mystery. There are a few potential

[0:51] leads. We learned today that federal

[0:53] regulators had concerns about the

[0:55] possibility of rapid decompression on

[0:57] some Lear jets. And our coverage tonight

[1:00] begins in Minina, South Dakota, where

[1:01] the jet nose dived and where

[1:03] investigators have started looking for

[1:04] clues. ABC's Dean Reynolds is there.

[1:07] Dean, Kevin, crash investigators today

[1:10] recovered parts of the engines and the

[1:13] navigational controls that may help them

[1:15] reconstruct the fatal flight of Payne

[1:17] Stewart's private jet.

[1:20] There's a lot of wreckage in there. The

[1:21] earth is quite soft out here.

[1:23] >> The digging over thousands of pieces of

[1:25] wreckage is going on in mud and clay 10

[1:28] ft deep. The jet had no flight data

[1:30] recorder to track instruments and

[1:31] systems, but it did have a cockpit voice

[1:33] recorder like this one. If found, it

[1:36] could reveal some det