VIDEOTAPE OF HIJACKED JET CRASHING SOLD FOR $65,000.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Four days after filming the crash of a hijacked Ethiopian jetliner, a South African woman realized the importance of the story and sold the videotape for $65,000, she said Wednesday. Marinda Gouws said she was vacationing with her husband at a resort on the Comoros Islands when the jet carrying 175 people touched down in the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. surf and broke apart. ``My husband and I were lying on the beach and I was filming on the video camera, and then I saw the plane, and he said film the plane, and that's what I did,'' Gouws told Israel's Channel 2 TV. Hijackers had seized the Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines is an airline based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the national airline of Ethiopia, operating scheduled international passenger and freight services to 50 destinations world-wide, as well as domestic services to 28 destinations and passenger and cargo charter Boeing 767 and demanded to be taken to Australia. But the jet ran out of fuel and crash-landed, killing 125 of the 175 people aboard. The dramatic footage, broadcast around the world, shows the plane skimming Skimming An electronic method of capturing a victim's personal information used by identity thieves. The skimmer is a small device that scans a credit card and stores the information contained in the magnetic strip. the water, then dipping to the left, spinning and blowing apart in a spray of water. Asked why the tape was not released until Tuesday, four days after the crash, Gouws said she hadn't realized that it was a major story. ``Actually my husband and I showed it to our family and four days after . . . somebody else (came) to us and said they want to see the film,'' Gouws said. She said she sold the tape to London-based WTN WTN Watertown (Wisconsin) WTN Working Telephone Number WTN World Television Network WTN Wright Technology Network WTN World Timber Network WTN Womens' Television Network (Canada) television for $65,000. WTN was not available to confirm her account. |
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