NBC Nightly News - 1999-10-30

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[0:00] and

[0:01] and

[0:01] >> restoring luster to the Olympics by

[0:03] reforming the process for choosing the

[0:05] sites and restoring trust in a small

[0:08] West Virginia town where a bank went

[0:11] bust.

[0:12] >> They don't trust any bank now. [music]

[0:17] >> From NBC News World Headquarters in New

[0:20] York, this is NBC Nightly News reported

[0:24] by John Seanthaler.

[0:26] >> Good evening everyone. of the National

[0:27] Transportation Safety Board and a US

[0:30] senator had some tough words for the

[0:31] huge aircraft manufacturer Boeing today.

[0:34] The NTSB expressed displeasure over

[0:37] Boeing's failure to inform investigators

[0:39] about a 19-year-old report that

[0:42] officials claim could have aided their

[0:43] investigation of the crash of TWWA

[0:45] Flight 800. NBC's Robert Hager reports.

[0:50] The giant manufacturer Boeing criticized

[0:53] tonight for failing to tell government

[0:54] investigators about a 19-year-old

[0:57] company report on the vulnerability of

[0:59] center fuel tanks like the one

[1:01] investigators believe blew up aboard

[1:03] TWWA800 3 years ago, taking 230 lives.

[1:08] Congress now investigating why Boeing

[1:10] didn't pass on the information earlier.

[1:12] Senator Charles Grassly upset. If this

[1:14] report had been made public years ago,

[1:18] there would have been a lot of lives

[1:19] saved.

[1:20] >> Maybe overstated, investigators say, but

[1:22] here's the story. Long before the TWWA

[1:25] accident, way back in 1980, Boeing

[1:27] engineers did a report for the Air

[1:29] Force, which flies a version of the 747,

[1:32] a report on how the area around the

[1:34] center fuel tank can heat up because of

[1:37] air conditioners right underneath the

[1:38] tank. They cool air for passengers

[1:40] above,