- Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
- Title:
- Eastern Air Lines plane crash, search and rescue--outtakes
- Creator:
- WIS-TV
- Contributor to Resource:
- WNOK 1982
- Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections
- Date of Original:
- 1974-09-11
- Subject:
- Eastern Air Lines
Airplane crash survival
Aircraft accidents
Search and rescue operations - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, 35.22709, -80.84313
- Medium:
- motion pictures (visual works)
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/H264
- Description:
- Search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 near Charlotte, North Carolina. Footage depicts workers among wreckage and debris from the DC-9 passenger jet, and removal of victims' remains. 69 of the 82 people on board were killed in the crash, and three of the initial survivors later died of their injuries. Many of the deceased were South Carolina residents, including Wayne Seal (news director for WCIV-TV and former press secretary to S. C. Governor Robert McNair), and Dr. James Colbert Jr. (vice president of academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina).
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/localtvnews/id/37
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208.
- Extent:
- Film: 16mm. Silent and sound. Color. Masterpositive. 1.37:1 (Academy). Magnetic. Acetate.
01:43 - Original Collection:
- Local Television Newsfilm Collections
WLTX-TV News Story 662 - Contributing Institution:
- South Caroliniana Library
- Rights:
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