CBS News - EgyptAir 990 crash - 1999-10-31

Name: CBS News - EgyptAir 990 crash - 1999-10-31
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[0:00] are in judging it.

[0:04] in their approach. They have dispatched

[0:06] six Coast Guard cutters, three planes,

[0:09] and four helicopters. Officials are

[0:11] upstairs right now discussing the

[0:13] possibility of moving moving their

[0:15] headquarters of this operation from here

[0:17] in Boston closer to the search area.

[0:19] That's all from here live in Boston. I'm

[0:20] Christina Hager. Back to you. Thank you

[0:22] very much, Ms. Hager.

[0:24] Uh for those of you who may be just now

[0:26] joining us and have not been in touch in

[0:27] the morning, very quickly, this is CBS

[0:29] News special coverage of the crash of

[0:32] Egypt Airlines Flight 990. The Boeing

[0:35] aircraft went down in the wee hours of

[0:37] this morning uh off the coast of

[0:39] Nantucket. Very little is known about

[0:41] what may have happened to this aircraft.

[0:43] Uh yes, there are

[0:45] a long line of questions of about well,

[0:47] did this happen or that happen? There's

[0:49] all kind of speculation about what could

[0:51] have happened, but important to

[0:52] italicize very little is known about

[0:55] this crash uh at this moment. Now, let's

[0:58] go to Jim Stewart, our CBS News uh law

[1:00] enforcement among other things reporter

[1:02] in Washington, D.C. Jim, I'm we're

[1:04] getting some telephone calls and earlier

[1:06] in the morning and I'm concerned also

[1:08] want to put in perspective the fact that

[1:10] the FAA uh sent out some information

[1:13] about a possible threat that would uh

[1:16] you know, put airlines on the alert that

[1:18] was supposed to end at about this time.

[1:20] You know about that. Put it into to some

[1:22] context for us.

[1:24] Well, Dan, as Bob Orr reported earlier,

[1:26] that that threat was really I thi