CBS Evening News - 1975-06-24
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[0:02] [Music]
[0:15] this is the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:19] Cronkite
[0:20] good evening a jetliner with 122
[0:24] passengers and crew aboard crashed and
[0:26] burned while trying to land the New
[0:28] York's Kennedy Airport late this
[0:30] afternoon the plane was Eastern Airlines
[0:32] flight 76 or 66 brother from New Orleans
[0:35] and a police officer said less than a
[0:37] dozen persons survived the plane a 727
[0:41] jet according to a witness just dove
[0:43] into the ground a half mile short of the
[0:45] runway in a sparsely populated area it's
[0:48] skittered across a rush hour Jam Parkway
[0:50] however and there were unconfirmed
[0:52] reports that some cars may have been hit
[0:54] it was raining and there were
[0:56] thunderstorms in the area and one
[0:57] witness said he saw the plane's tail
[0:59] struck by lightning a resident in the
[1:02] crash area witnessed the tragedy from
[1:04] her home
[1:06] a silver plane as it was coming down not
[1:09] too far off the landing it was
[1:14] and all you can see is a bunch of flames
[1:16] and it was coming down and it was still
[1:19] on Flames the whole thing was just
[1:20] burning I started coming down like that
[1:23] from my house you could see it it was
[1:25] down on something and then it just went
[1:26] boom
[1:27] you know because it was still going and
[1:29] it landed it was still running with the
[1:31] fire on it and then all of a sudden you
[1:33] heard the explosion
[1:41] listen to this the company shall defend
[1:45] any suit alleging such bodily injury or
[1:47] property damage and seeking damages who
[1:49] can understand that but now listen
[1:53] if you're sued by someone for damages
[1:55] because of a car accident even if the
[1:57] accusations aren't true we'll defend y