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NET JOURNAL: WHAT HAPPENED UP THERE? (TV)
Summary
One in this weekly documentary series. This program features a Japanese documentary that examines the investigation into the 1966 crash of the Boeing 727 that plunged into Tokyo Bay, killing all 133 people aboard. The program includes film footage of investigators photographing the underwater wreckage, raising the plane fragments, and examining the engines, parts, and instruments. Bobbie R. Allen of the Safety Bureau of the Civil Aeronautics Board compares this crash with three other 727 disasters that occurred within an 18-month period.
Details
- NETWORK: NET National Educational Television / PBS forerunner
- DATE: February 6, 1967 Monday 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:28
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T80:0353
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Aviation - 1966
- SERIES RUN: WNET (New York, NY) - TV series, 1966-1970
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Yoshitane Horii … Director
- Dick McCutcheon … Host
- Bobbie R. Allen … Interviewee