NBC Nightly News - 1977-04-05
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[0:01] [Music]
[0:07] This is NBC Nightly News, Tuesday, April
[0:10] 5th, with John Chancellor and David
[0:12] Brinkley reporting from the NBC News
[0:14] Center in New York.
[0:16] >> Good evening. Investigators said today
[0:18] that a hail storm may have been
[0:20] responsible for the deaths of 68 people
[0:22] yesterday when this DC9 jetliner crashed
[0:26] in Georgia. The plane was flying through
[0:28] hail said to have been the size of
[0:30] tennis balls. Hail so large and violent
[0:32] that it broke windows on the plane,
[0:34] including the windshield. More
[0:36] important, the hail may have caused the
[0:38] plane's two jet engines to flame out,
[0:40] leaving the pilot, Captain William
[0:42] McKenzie, with no power and very little
[0:44] chance of bringing his plane down
[0:46] safely. David has more on that. Since he
[0:48] couldn't make it to the airport, he
[0:50] tried desperately to bring the plane
[0:51] down on Highway 92, 30 mi from Atlanta.
[0:54] And here's how that went. With a little
[0:56] luck, he might have made it. He brought
[0:58] it into 92 going in this direction
[1:02] fairly smoothly when the right wing hit
[1:04] an electric pole. That still didn't stop
[1:07] him until he got to Newman's Grocery and
[1:10] hit a parked car and the grocery knocked
[1:12] over the gas pumps, started a fire that
[1:15] started the plane to spinning, tore it
[1:17] apart, and the wreckage wound up over
[1:19] here in a vacant lot. Here's a report
[1:22] from the scene. and Kenley Jones.
[1:25] >> This is something like the view that the
[1:27] pilot of the twin engine DC9 had from
[1:29] the cockpit. As he realized time had run
[1:32] out, he had to put the plane down. He
[1:34] settled on a stretch of road running
[1:36] through the sm