Nightline (ABC) - 1995-02-28
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[0:00] around channel 2, on your side.
[0:05] >> [music]
[0:05] >> February 28th, 1995.
[0:12] >> So hard to come to terms with the fact
[0:14] that I'll never
[0:15] you know, just pick up the phone and
[0:16] call her and that uh
[0:18] I'm not going to have her
[0:20] you know, her children to raise and I
[0:21] mean to to be a grandmom to.
[0:23] >> Wave off. Wave off. Wave off.
[0:26] Wave off power. Raise your gear. Raise
[0:29] your gear power.
[0:30] >> Under any circumstances, it would have
[0:33] been a tragedy.
[0:34] >> Eject, eject.
[0:36] >> Under these, it was a controversial one.
[0:39] Because the pilot was a woman.
[0:41] >> I was getting calls well before the
[0:43] accident
[0:44] um of guys that were very angry over the
[0:48] fact that these women had entered into
[0:49] their community.
[0:50] >> Tonight, the crash of a female fighter
[0:53] pilot
[0:54] and the Navy's response.
[1:01] >> [music]
[1:05] >> This is ABC News Nightline.
[1:08] Reporting from Washington, [music]
[1:10] Ted Koppel.
[1:12] On one level, this is a story about Navy
[1:14] Lieutenant Kara Hultgreen who was killed
[1:16] last October after ejecting from her
[1:19] F-14, but on another level, it's also a
[1:22] story about us in the media.
[1:24] Kara Hultgreen was inevitably a
[1:26] controversial figure in the Navy. She
[1:28] was one of the first women to become a
[1:31] fighter pilot aboard an aircraft
[1:33] carrier. She and her mother literally
[1:36] lobbied Congress to gain combat roles
[1:38] for women pilots. And since the Pentagon
[1:41] ultimately lifted the ban in April of
[1:43] 1993,
[1:45] it was probably a foregone conclusion
[1:47] that some people would charge that the
[1:49] Navy was only trying to compensate for
[1:51] the tailhook scandal.
[1:53] But after Kara Hultgreen's death, it got
[1:55] worse th