7/96 BREAKING NEWS: The Crash of TWA #800 1of8

[bennyvega100]

lol wow, was this Brian Williams' first day on the air?

[MadirdTiger91]

Eddie George's mom was a flight attendent on that flight but swapped flights

[xxJohnRobinsonfanxx]

Yeah that's definately Sean Mooney from WWF.

[ab9957]

umm....uhhh....ummmhhhh.....i see you on the telephone do you know anything? no i don't know anything....

[Bloodybunny]

Starting at 4:27: Mark Mullen, ABCNEWS anchor, in the *local* WABC-TV newsroom (located in a part of the complex so far removed from the network newsroom that it can literally be called "around the corner"), giving a live hit to a station (I'm guessing ABC O&O WPVI in Philly?) that slaps a giant "6" bug on-screen just to make the "7" stand out even more, when Mark shouldn't even be in 7's newsroom in the first place. Ow, my brain....I've been in tv too long.

[musclecarluvr1]

Has Brian reached puberty yet?

[LongLiveOx]

Not one public interview of an eyewitness during the "investigation." For a very good reason...

[altfactor]

This was a few days before the 1996 Olympics began; I recall NBC's over-the-air TV network broke into an Olympics preview special to report on the crash.

I believe it was MSNBC's first week on the air.

[eekoutasignal]

@altfactor Correct; their third day on air, to be specific.

[misled1982]

I remember this crash, it was when the Olympics were held at Atlanta, I was 13 at the time

[robbie2737]

I remember this night very well trying to get down to the south shore police had everything blocked at William Floyd pkwy.... Avianca fl#52 was still engraved in my head from 6 years earlier....same thing we came within about 3 miles from that crash but that was it, police had everything blocked....scary but we're do soon...too much air traffic in this area !!

[andyjalc]

LMAO...amazing 15 years ago we were showing little maps in a book and now look at us...we can get a map anywhere online in a split second or even on our phone. Ah how technology changes.

[JetRanger0007]

In 1996, the Internet was basically still its beginning stages, there was no Google Earth or Googe maps, really wasn't much of anything to pull up from the net worth a damn at that time, amazing how far we've come with that in such short time, thankfully !

[retroguy1976]

@JetRanger0007 sure wasnt

[DingisMcGee]

They still use paper/cardboard props like that map on Japanese TV ... and it's 2011....

[RobRob94]

@DingisMcGee lol that's because the Japanese don't want to spend their money on HD TV graphics lol

[INUMIMI28]

@DingisMcGee its part of the tradition not that its poorly funded......wait

[upiluften]

@INUMIMI28 Hahaha.. as an Asian. I can't argue against that!

[xcited4vids]

You don't actually believe the official story, do you?

[astar334]

@xcited4vids Yes. There is no evidence to support you conspiracy theorists.

[radudeATL]

I'm sure Rand McNally was offended at their maps being called "crude" by BriWi...

;-)

[macrent2]

@radudeATL I know the other map was much cruder than the Rand McNally map!

[radudeATL]

@macrent2 They should have used a Google map.

Wait, what?

;-)

[chyrongeek]

Also, MSNBC just started broadcasting just that same month, and when MSNBC came along; it created a new newsgathering operation for all of NBC News and a new computerized ENG system.

Too bad they not just get big story that same month, but the Olympic Park bombings also - I remember MSNBC covering that cause they were the new kid in the 24/7 news channel block.

[Panchitolionman]

LOL at Brian Williams in the beginning "uhhhhhh channel 4 here in New York uhhhhhh is gonna have a special report uhhhhhh and a uhhhhhhh" then cut to Chris Wallace. I think the guy editing this video got annoyed at that.