CBS Evening News - 2007-04-22
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[0:05] I'm Russ Mitchell. Crash questions. Why
[0:07] did a Blue Angels jet smash into South
[0:09] Carolina homes? Joey Chen investigates.
[0:12] The next step in healing at Virginia
[0:14] Tech. Sharon Alfonsi reports on students
[0:16] returning to campus.
[0:18] Smoking Joe Frazier. Byron Pitts talks
[0:20] to the former heavyweight champ about
[0:22] his feud with Muhammad Ali.
[0:25] And Earth Day 2007. John Blackstone
[0:28] profiles a man with a mission to
[0:30] preserve and protect his corner of the
[0:32] earth.
[0:37] This is the CBS Evening News with Russ
[0:41] Mitchell.
[0:44] And good evening. The nation's top gun
[0:46] pilots remain stunned this evening one
[0:48] day after the rare crash of a Blue
[0:50] Angels jet killed one pilot before
[0:52] thousands of horrified spectators. It
[0:54] happened in South Carolina near the end
[0:56] of an air show by the elite air squadron
[0:58] at the Marine Corps Air Station
[1:00] Beaufort. The dead pilot has now been
[1:02] identified as 32-year-old Navy
[1:03] Lieutenant Commander Kevin Davis.
[1:06] Correspondent Joey Chen has the latest.
[1:09] In a somber salute to one of the Navy's
[1:10] highest flyers,
[1:13] a team of six jets flew the traditional
[1:15] missing man formation at the start of
[1:17] the air show today. One peeling off to
[1:19] honor the F/A-18 Hornet and its pilot
[1:22] lost when the jet plummeted into a
[1:24] neighborhood near the air base. We still
[1:26] have debris all over some of the
[1:28] highways and it's very difficult to get
[1:30] in and they do not want to move any of
[1:31] that until all the investigators have
[1:33] been on the scene. During their shows,
[1:35] the Blue Angels come within inches of
[1:37] each other. And yesterday, the accident
[1:39] happened as the t