CBS Evening News - 1994-12-14 (missing intro)

Name: CBS Evening News - 1994-12-14 (missing intro)
Uploaded: 2025-10-09
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] Another fatal air crash today, the

[0:02] second in less than 24 hours. The latest

[0:05] disaster occurred in California. A Lear

[0:07] jet under contract to the California Air

[0:09] National Guard plowed into an apartment

[0:12] building in Fresno, spewing wreckage,

[0:14] flames, and casualties. CBS News

[0:16] correspondent Reed Galen has the latest

[0:18] details.

[0:21] >> They never heard it coming, witnesses

[0:22] said, but some saw it wobbling, almost

[0:25] free falling towards their neighborhood.

[0:27] >> No, all of a sudden the plane just came

[0:28] down. Down we went off the street. I

[0:30] didn't know where to look. Turned around

[0:31] to look and then boom, we just seen the

[0:33] whole big thing.

[0:34] >> The pilot was apparently trying to use

[0:36] this wide residential street as a

[0:37] runway, but the jet screeched and

[0:40] bounced down the pavement, breaking

[0:41] apart, and finally careening into an

[0:43] apartment building. Fire and chaos

[0:46] followed.

[0:47] >> The problem is that upper structures are

[0:48] burned so badly that we're having a hard

[0:50] time for the safety of our own personnel

[0:52] to be able to overhaul or salvage and go

[0:55] through those areas up there.

[0:57] >> Two people died, the pilot and the

[0:59] co-pilot. And at least 15 people on the

[1:01] ground were injured.

[1:03] >> I hear sirens, y'all.

[1:05] >> The Lear jet, a civilian aircraft leased

[1:07] by the Air Force, was cleared to land at

[1:09] the Fresno Airport just before noon

[1:11] Pacific time, when the pilot declared an

[1:13] emergency and overflew. It crashed 2

[1:16] miles southeast of the airport. The

[1:18] apartment complex was destroyed.

[1:20] The jet was on its way from Klamath

[1:22] Falls, Oregon. Fire Department