TWA 800 crash - CNN - 1996-07-18 - 4 p.m. (E)

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[0:00] plane in the seconds before it crashed

[0:03] another source indicates to CNN that

[0:05] this possibility is certainly under

[0:07] investigation right now the source says

[0:09] that's something that we're looking at

[0:11] are sources words investigators say

[0:14] they'll get lots of help in their probe

[0:15] if and when they recover the black boxes

[0:18] the cockpit voice recorder is expected

[0:20] to provide important Clues as to what

[0:22] sounds were made during the last few

[0:24] minutes of the flight plus a chance to

[0:26] hear what the crew was saying the other

[0:29] box flight data recorder will probably

[0:31] be able to tell investigators whether

[0:33] there was a fire an explosion or

[0:36] something else that caused the plane to

[0:38] go down blue go up all right John

[0:40] Hollman in

[0:42] Washington crew searching for Clues

[0:45] bodies and survivors also are finding

[0:47] some personal effects in the waters off

[0:48] Long Island reminders of the people who

[0:50] are involved in this tragedy among those

[0:52] believed to have died 16 students and

[0:54] their five adult chaperon they were from

[0:56] a high school French Club in a small

[0:58] Pennsylvania community friends and

[1:00] relatives of those on board flight 800

[1:02] have been gathering in Paris and in New

[1:04] York Special Trauma Centers have been

[1:06] opened to give them counseling some

[1:08] details about the Boeing

[1:10] 74700 which entered service in 1970 the

[1:13] plane that went down off Long Island was

[1:15] 25 years old the Boeing 747 can hold 452

[1:19] passengers fewer than half that many 210

[1:22] passengers were aboard flight 800 still

[1:25] ahead in our crash coverage live reports

[1:27] on reaction from the White House Par

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