CNN - Concorde crash & Bush/Cheney VP selection - 2000-07-25
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[0:00] as you figured 100 passengers nine crew
[0:03] aboard this is the dramatic photograph
[0:05] CNN has obtained uh the first picture of
[0:08] the fire that burst from the rear of the
[0:10] aircraft before it exploded in a hotel
[0:13] complex in a ball of fire it was in that
[0:15] complex where the four people died uh
[0:18] the full assessment of the ground
[0:20] injuries has not been received yet there
[0:22] are still more developments as we hear
[0:24] from uh the French government KN has
[0:26] fallen in France now but the uh
[0:30] the effort of rescue crews continues in
[0:33] Gess France which is about 3 miles north
[0:36] of the end of the runway at Charles deal
[0:37] so as you can tell the plane crashed
[0:39] shortly after takeoff uh water and foam
[0:42] is still being spread on the crash site
[0:45] uh you see a white building there which
[0:47] is part of the hotel complex a
[0:49] restaurant and hotel U structure uh was
[0:52] engulfed in flames as we saw in some
[0:54] early amateur video uh that is
[0:57] apparently where the ground uh
[1:00] casualties took place the supersonic
[1:02] jetliner uh is a burn uh turned that
[1:06] area into a burned out shell according
[1:07] to our CNN correspondent Jim bman who
[1:09] we've been hearing uh from and we'll
[1:11] hear again from who is in ganess France
[1:13] covering this Air France officials say
[1:15] the crash apparently resulted from
[1:16] engine trouble however many Aviation
[1:18] experts we've spoken to said it's too
[1:20] early uh to make that assessment in the
[1:23] meantime all of the uh remaining Concord
[1:28] uh jetliners and there were until
[1:30] today's crash only 13 of them in the
[1:32] world the British and the Air France
[1:34] corporations have groun