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All three newscasts assigned a correspondent to cover the start of the National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the Continental Airlines crash at Denver Airport on Sunday. Flight 1404 skidded off the runway during its takeoff attempt in high winds. The Boeing 737 crashed into a 40-foot ravine and burst into flames. The plane was evacuated without fatalities by all 115 on board. ABC was the only network to have a reporter in Denver. Lisa Stark (embargoed link) was skeptical that high winds caused the crash: "Other planes had no problem taking off." NBC's Tom Costello and CBS' Thalia Assuras filed from their networks' DC bureaus. The fact that the plane left the runway into the wind's direction ruled out wind shear for Assuras. Costello dug out file footage to illustrate how the FAA trains passengers in safe techniques for exiting a burning cabin. He told us about Mike Wilson, a passenger who lost his eyeglasses in the confusion but who could still see well enough to reach for his text messager. His expurgated Twitter went thus: "Holy *********. I was just in a plane crash! Ugh, my glasses fell off in a mass exodus getting off the plane. Can't see very well."
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