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2kofman/search/garlick/9 September 1998

(AERIALS OR WATER VIZ OF SHIPS ON SITE - Off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia)
(NARR) After five days of searching, the ocean is beginning to yield its secrets. In water 200 feet deep, five miles off the Peggy's Cove navy divers have now located the second of Flight 111's black boxes. The cockpit voice recorder.

(SOT - NAVY SPOKESMAN) WITH SONAR FOUND A SNIFFLE OF SOUND... FROM LATE AFTERNOON PRESSER

(DATA BOX IN OTTAWA) (NARR) The first of the black boxes, the flight data record is now in Ottawa at the laboratories of the Canadian Safety Board, where it was examined earlier today...but there is no data after the plane fell below 10-thousand feet.

(SOT - NAVY SPOKESMAN) ????? FROM LATE AFTERNOON PRESSER TALKS ABOUT CONTENTS
(no electrics working on plane...)
(GOSPEL CHOIR)

(NARR) At Peggy's Cove, meanwhile, the military and the media are almost gone, but the memorials continue. (THEN GRIEVING FAMILIES ON COVE THEN KLEINS) And families of victims are still coming. Abe Klein's father Stanley was on that flight heading from his home in Queens, New York to Geneva for a quick business meeting.

(SOT - Cheryl Klein 0.45.51) WE WENT THROUGH SHOCK - NOW WE ARE ANGRY.

(NARR) Klein and his wife came to Nova Scotia hoping to retrieve Stanley Klein's body... it hasn't been found. They are to determined to leave with answers.

(SOT - 0.45.33 ABE) I AM AT A STAGE WHERE I WANT TO KNOW. I REALLY BELIEVE THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT BUT (CHERYL) THINGS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. WE THINK HE HAD TIME TO LAND. (ABE) WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT.

(KOFMAN OC) That is the key question here: Did the pilot make the right decision when he chose to circle over the ocean and dump fuel rather than land a very heavy aircraft immediately? with some of the info missing from the data recorder, it is not clear that that question will ever be answered. JK CBS NEWS HALIFAX