Switzerland Crash 6 - Investigation following crash of Swiss airliner.
TAPE: EF01/0822 IN_TIME: 04:16:43 DURATION: 2:48 SOURCES: APTN/Tele 24 RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Near Zurich - 25 Nov 2001 SHOTLIST: APTN Birchwil, Near Zurich 1. Wide shot of rescue services at crash site 2. Zoom in to plane wreckage 3. Close shot of plane tail 4. Various of rescuers and plane wreckage 5. Close shot of debris at crash site 6. Rescuers inspecting wreckage 7. Various close shots of plane tail through trees Tele 24 Zurich 8. Mid shot of plane crash survivor Jacqueline Bardan 9. SOUNDBITE (German) Jacqueline Bardan, Survivor: "I thought I was dying. I thought we were all going to die. I was looking through the window trying to measure how close or far we were from the ground and then I heard a 'boom'. First I thought it was a rough landing, but then immediately the plane started shaking and flames came up in front of me and then we stopped. I thought we were all finished, but then I was surprised to realise I was still alive. I wanted to desperately get out as soon as possible. I crawled inside the plane and found myself in a forest and snow. My only thought was to get away from this forest as quickly as I can, because I feared the plane would suddenly explode." Tele 24 Zurich 10. Close shot of crash survivor in hospital bed 11. Zoom out from survivor 12. SOUNDBITE (German) Miriam Wettstein, Survivor: "When the crash happened it was a nightmare for me. It was like a movie. It didn't seem real. But now I realise it was a catastrophe." 13. Close shot of survivor and her boyfriend APTN Zurich 14. Wide shot of press conference 15. SOUNDBITE (German) Moritz Leuenberger, Swiss President: "In a very short period of time, Switzerland has been struck by a series of catastrophic events. This is the latest in a list of disasters. The whole country is suffering and I am personally saddened by this catastrophe. I ask myself 'Will it never end?'" 16. Cutaway press APTN Birchwil area, Near Zurich 17. Rescuers and police walking 18. Wide shot of police near crash site STORYLINE: Workers combing through a muddy woods have found the flight recorders of a Swiss airliner that crashed on Saturday near Zurich, officials said on Sunday. Twenty four died after the plane crashed on approach to Zurich Airport, late on Saturday night (November 24). There were five crew and 28 passengers on board. The bodies of 10 people were recovered immediately, and the rest, by Sunday evening. A Zurich police statement said 10 Swiss citizens had been on the plane, 13 Germans - including one with dual German-U.S. citizenship. There were three Israelis, two Dutch nationals and one each from Canada, Ghana, Austria, Sweden and Spain. Nine people managed to survive the crash. Thirty-five year old Miriam Wettstein was one of the lucky ones. She told Swiss Tele24 television from her hospital bed that she ran away from the burning plane. She said she jumped over seats to escape the flames and managed to get out through a hole in the side of the plane. Forty-year-old Jacqueline Bardan also survived. She managed to escape with only light injuries and was released from hospital. At a press conference on Sunday, Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger said he was deeply saddened by a series of disasters hitting Switzerland in a short span of time - including a massacre in Zug parliament in September and a fire in Gotthard tunnel in October. The cause of the crash of Flight LX3597 from Berlin - the second accident to strike Crossair in less than two years - was not immediately known. Officials refused to speculate. But visibility had been poor, with rain and some snow and initial reports indicated that the pilot - described as a veteran with more than 20 years experience - had been flying too low.
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Switzerland Crash 3 - WRAP Adds presser to Crossair crash site pictures
TAPE: EF01/0820 IN_TIME: 04:00:47 - 07:31:21 DURATION: 3:10 SOURCES: Tele 24/APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Near Zurich - Nov 24/25, 2001 SHOTLIST: (Note: Clean video - no supers) Tele 24 - Switzerland 1.Rescuers searching smouldering wreckage in forest 2. Fuselage of aircraft in trees, pan to right of more wreckage 3. Pan to left of fire engines parked under floodlights 4. Firemen inspecting rescue maps on wall of command centre 5. Rescuers walking around smashed cockpit, zoom out rescuers standing around marked crash scene 6. Rescuers standing in front of ambulance 7. Police at scene 8. Rescuers standing in front of police van 9. Pan to left of smouldering wreckage in forest 10. Journalists standing in news conference tent 11. Wide shot of officials at conference 12. SOUNDBITE: (Swiss-German) Peter Grueter, Cantonal Chief of police in Zurich " When we heard that plane went down near the village of Basser we sent out all policemen available to the crash site. At 2215 police found the wreckage in the forest up on the hill near the Birchwil area. The Zurich Cantonal police quickly organised anything necessary in order to lead the rescue operation." 13. Pan of officials at conference APTN File 14. Still of Avro RJ-100 Jumbolino landing 15. Still of Jumbolino in air STORYLINE: At least 10 people were killed when a Swiss regional airliner crashed on approach to Zurich airport late on Saturday. Nine survivors walked away from the wreckage, officials said. The plane, an Avro RJ-100 Jumbolino belonging to Swissair subsidiary Crossair, was carrying 28 passengers and 5 crew members on a flight from Berlin. The death toll was expected to rise. "We have seen additional bodies but have not yet recovered them," Zurich police chief Peter Grueter told a news conference. He refused to speculate about the final number of dead. Rescue workers with sniffer dogs worked through the bitterly cold night searching for the 14 missing people, issuing an appeal for local people to help find possible survivors in a wooded area near Birchwil, a Zurich suburb some 3 kilometers (2 miles) east of the airport. All the nine confirmed survivors made their own way on foot to rescue workers, said Zurich airport's chief medical officer Remo Reichlin. Three had serious burns while the other six had less severe ones. There was no indication whether the pilot and crew, all Swiss nationals, were among those who escaped. Neither was there any breakdown of nationalities of the victims. The cause of the crash, the second to strike Crossair in less than two years, was not immediately known. Weather conditions were poor at the time of the accident at 10:08 p.m. (2108GMT), with rain and some snow. Crossair chief Andre Dose said terrorism did not appear to be to blame. While authorities refused to speculate on the cause of the tragedy, several aviation experts hinted at pilot or navigational equipment error. A fireball engulfed the middle part of the plane after the crash, but the cockpit and tail areas were left largely unscathed, local police and airport officials said. Crossair chief Dose said the all-important flight recorders had been recovered from the crash site, which was relatively flat and easily accessible. The Jumbolino was not among the newest of the Crossair fleet, but it was considered highly reliable and there had never been any known problems with the plane. The Jumbolino is a small, four-engine jetliner, which Crossair flies in two versions, one with 82 passenger seats and the other with 97. The tragedy happened as the plane was approaching runway 28, a new night landing strip brought into operation four weeks ago following agreement by the Swiss transport ministry to limit overflight noise above nearby Germany. Crossair, a subsidiary of the ailing Swissair Group, flies routes between Swiss cities and to other destinations in Europe. It is taking over parts of the Swissair operations in complicated, government-financed bailout that is meant to be completed next spring.
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Germany Snow 3 - Winter weather sparks traffic chaos
TAPE: EF01/0879 IN_TIME: 23:47:50 DURATION: 2:39 SOURCES: PRO-7 RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: 22 Dec 2001 SHOTLIST: 1. Aerial of snow and traffic jammed on motoray and roadbridge below, tracking shot along rows of cars, with observation helicopter in foreground, tilt to rescue crew pushing car off road 2. Various long aerial shots of trucks and cars stuck in traffic jam on Bavaria's main north-south motorway, showing snow across the countryside and nearby towns 3. Various service and rescue vehicles in traffic 4. Aerial shot of rescue workers and policemen trying to clear a path for trucks 5. Aerial of traffic halted on road bridge, pan to traffic stopped at motorway route signs for Bayreuth/Kulmbach 6. Aerial of service trucks on road 8. Police van beside road in traffic 7. Fire engines on road in traffic 8. Man walking between rows of halted cars, tilt to wide tracking aerial shot of hundreds of cars on stuck on snowy motorway 9. People stuck in their car, track to people sitting in following car 10. Aerial of cars and trucks halted on snowy motorway STORYLINE: The start of the Christmas holidays turned into a nightmare for tens of thousands of Germans this weekend as atrocious winter conditions sparked massive traffic jams in the country. An estimated 60,000 motorists were forced to shelter in their cars in Bavaria, when they were caught in a 150 kilometre (90 mile) long traffic jam for up to fourteen hours. Bavarian police said the traffic chaos was the worst they had seen. Up to 1.2 metres (four feet) of snow fell in Bavaria on Friday night and Saturday. The heavy snow also caused the cancellation of about 40 flights in and out of Zurich airport in neighbouring Switzerland on Saturday. Weather forecasters say more snow is expected in coming days, with only the northwest of the country likely to escape the worst of the weather.