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CNN Live At Daybreak

Plane Parts Scattered Over Wide Area after Collision

Aired July 02, 2002 - 06:20   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We want to get back now to that deadly midair collision between a Russian jetliner and a cargo plane over Germany. At least 70 people, including 52 children, are believed dead.

German radio reporter Stefan Scheurer joins us from the crash site now.

What are they telling you on the ground?

STEFAN SCHEURER: OK, we heard for one and a half hours, the Baden-Wuerttemberg governor had been talking with us and he said he flew with a helicopter around about the scene and he saw at Ueberlingen, this is the place we stand now, and 30 kilometers around there are wrecked parts that have fallen from the sky at last night. And most of them landed in forests and in fields. And other parts landed behind me right in the Lake of Constance. And, as you can see, there is at the Lake of the Constance, very calm, a little bit cloudy, a little bit windy, the best conditions for recovery. But we have no information, no more information than this, that 11 victims from the planes are recovered at the moment.

COSTELLO: Can you tell us about the wreckage recovery? What are they picking up out there as far as pieces of the plane?

SCHEURER: So the things you, they find in the fields are a plane, part of a plane, of the wings, and part of the machines, of the turbine. This is what they find in the fields and in the forests. Nothing crashed directly into a house. There was some fires at the house, at a school and at a farm tonight, but nothing crashed into the house. Maybe half of the parts crashed into the lake.

COSTELLO: All right, thank you for that live report from Germany this morning. We appreciate it.

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