CBS Evening News - 1989-01-05
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[0:00] I
[0:00] >> at 10:30.
[0:04] >> I got the second one on the node right
[0:05] now.
[0:06] >> Hey, I'm high cover on you.
[0:08] >> Get a good lock him up.
[0:11] >> Good kill. Good kill.
[0:13] >> Hey, good kill. Let's go.
[0:16] >> The view from the gun site as a USF14
[0:18] blows a Libyan Mig 23 out of the sky.
[0:26] >> This is the CBS evening news. Dan Rather
[0:29] reporting. Good evening. The aerial
[0:32] battle between the United States and
[0:33] Libya in skies over the Mediterranean
[0:36] turned into a war of words and pictures
[0:38] today. Libyan officials insisted again
[0:40] that the two MiG 23s shot down by
[0:42] USF-14s were not armed. The Pentagon
[0:46] said the Libyans were lying and provided
[0:48] photographic evidence that the US pilots
[0:51] acted in self-defense. CBS News Pentagon
[0:53] correspondent David Martin shows us the
[0:55] battle as it looked and sounded.
[0:59] A Libyan MIG flashes by pilot's eye view
[1:02] of yesterday's dog fight in which two US
[1:04] Navy jets shot down a pair of Libyan
[1:06] MiGs. This videotape taken from one of
[1:08] the Navy F-14s was released today by the
[1:11] Pentagon in an effort to prove its
[1:12] pilots fired in self-defense. The voices
[1:15] you hear are those of the American
[1:17] pilots, and they leave little doubt
[1:18] about what happened.
[1:20] >> I got the flag once.
[1:23] At 11:57 local time, the F-14s pick up
[1:26] the MiGs on their radar at a range of 72
[1:28] m.
[1:29] >> Make a quick loop here.
[1:31] >> Little more than a minute later, the
[1:33] F-14s turn left away from the
[1:35] approaching MiGs, but the MiGs turn
[1:37] toward them.
[1:39] >> appear to be heading directly at us. I'm
[1:41] coming toward steady up 150 for 30°
[1:45] offset. 50 m. With the MiGs now 53 mi
[1:48] away, th