USAir Flight 5050 accident
- Title
- USAir Flight 5050 accident
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- 23 Sep 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:03:31
- Description
- Paul Woodley reports from New York on the investigation into an accident where a Boeing 737 skidded off a runway at take off at New York’s LaGuardia airport and plunged into the East River (21/09/89). Includes press interview with James Colstad, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, about the role of the pilots in the crash.
- Contributors
- Paul Woodley; James Colstad
- Keywords
- USA; Air accidents; New York; Pilots; Aeroplanes; Inquests; Civil aircraft; Boeing; Crashes (aircraft); LaGuardia airport
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LBC/IRN, "USAir Flight 5050 accident". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0010900419011 (Accessed 20 May 2025)