Interview transcript Capt. Christian Baur January - TWA Flight 800 ...
Interview transcript Capt. Christian Baur January - TWA Flight 800 ...
Interview transcript Capt. Christian Baur January - TWA Flight 800 ...
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scanner. And I took off and headed back out there.<br />
I took me about 40 minutes to relocate the --<br />
the major debris field, which had drifted significantly<br />
to the southwest. And I was going to use that to find<br />
the preponderance of bodies, which we did. And we<br />
threw them lights to mark the areas, you know, where<br />
all the bodies. We marked each body with them lights.<br />
And it took about two hours of coaxing the<br />
Coast Guard to start retrieving the bodies. And they<br />
were major -- their orientation seemed to be solely<br />
around the fire. But the problem was that the bodies<br />
would drift and -- and fan out over time, 'cause they<br />
went to the southwest.<br />
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MR. WIEMEYER: Were t%e oxer boats in --<br />
on-scene at the time?<br />
CAPT. BAUR: No. The -- the only other<br />
aircraft I seen with me was the -- the 130. Then after<br />
I'd come back out, the second -- you know, the second<br />
part of that sortie, the Coast Guard Dauphin from<br />
Brooklyn had shown up. And I diwied the air space up<br />
between myself and him. Went, you know, air-to-air<br />
tact end, which means we get a little digital readout<br />
of our distance from each other, so we didn't fly into<br />
each other.<br />
And the 130 stayed above a certain altitude.<br />
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